The Jet Baritone and CVT Baritone are each built around extended scale lengths, Twin Six humbuckers and push/pull coil-splitting for serious low-end versatility.
For players who want to go lower, good news: Gretsch has launched two new Electromatic baritone guitars. While both models are in the Electromatic family, the Jet Baritone and CVT Baritone take different approaches to the format.
To introduce the new models, Loathe guitarist Erik Bickerstaffe performs the band’s track “Revenant” below. If you’re not convinced that a baritone is the way to go, maybe this will change your mind.
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Electromatic Jet Baritone guitar
The Electromatic Jet Baritone is the heavier spec of the two. Built around a chambered mahogany body with a bound carved maple top, it runs a 29.75″ scale length on a bolt-on maple neck with a Performance “C” profile and bound rosewood fingerboard. The longer scale gives it that extra tension and clarity in the low register that baritone players are after. Pickups are PureVolt Twin Six humbuckers – Alnico IV in the neck, Alnico V at the bridge, each with twelve adjustable pole pieces and vacuum wax-potting to keep noise down. Push/pull tone controls unlock true single-coil tones on each pickup, and in the middle position, those single coils combine for hum-cancelling. A rounded heel makes upper fret access cleaner than you’d expect from a baritone.
Electromatic CVT Baritone guitar
The Electromatic CVT Baritone runs a shorter 27″ scale on a solid mahogany body with beveled contours – a slightly more familiar feel for players transitioning from standard guitars, and a noticeably different look to the Jet. Pickups here are Twin Six humbuckers with Alnico 5 magnets, delivering strong midrange presence and punch. Again, push/pull coil-splitting is on board, this time via the master volume and tone controls. A GraphTech NuBone nut and Adjust-O-Matic bridge with stoptail tailpiece round out the hardware on both models.
Both guitars share the same Performance “C” neck profile and 12″-radius bound rosewood fingerboard with Pearloid Neo-Classic Thumbnail inlays – that familiar Gretsch look carried through into the baritone format without compromise.
Either way you go, you’re getting a real baritone with Gretsch’s fingerprints all over it – not just a standard guitar stretched out and rebranded.
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