A clip of my new gretsch G6128T

**jzucker** · 01-29-2026, 11:26 PM

Probably not the typical thing you hear around these parts. It's sort of rockabilly surf meets jazz fusion.

This is an excerpt, rough mix (midi drums atm) of a song of mine called castles.

I'm using a PRS NF-53 for rhythm, a Skjold bass and Gretsch G6128 for the solo. This is a departure from my normal jazz fusion style. Trying to get the vibe of a late '50s rock project on this.

Hope you dig it.

**jzucker** · 01-30-2026, 09:46 AM

Alt take
i'm using more of a standard rock/fusion tone using my kemper in plexi mode and a SH9 pedal for drive, kemper plexi, audioscape reverb, fabfilter delay

Hope you dig it.

**Mick-7** · 01-30-2026, 02:20 PM

Damn, another jazzer lured to the dark side by a Gretsch guitar!

**Jx30510** · 01-30-2026, 02:37 PM

Nice music style ! Your voice has a little Neil Young touch at times

This Gretsch (Duo Jet) has a unique design? I'm watching it on Sweetwater, and notice it's a solid body with floating bridge ? Is there some kind of hollow or bracing in there?

**Hep To The Jive** · 01-30-2026, 02:47 PM

i dig it! Unmistakable Gretsch tone, I'm a big fan of. Suits the tune as well.

**Hep To The Jive** · 01-30-2026, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by Jx30510

Nice music style ! Your voice has a little Neil Young touch at times

This Gretsch (Duo Jet) has a unique design? I'm watching it on Sweetwater, and notice it's a solid body with floating bridge ? Is there some kind of hollow or bracing in there?

Duo Jet is pretty much hollow body guitar, light and resonant. Similar to Les Paul only in shape.

**Mick-7** · 01-30-2026, 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by Jx30510

This Gretsch (Duo Jet) has a unique design? I'm watching it on Sweetwater, and notice it's a solid body with floating bridge ? Is there some kind of hollow or bracing in there?

We had a discussion about this, Gretsch calls them "chambered" solid bodies -- Gretsch Vintage Select Edition

They show their build here -- Gretsch Build

**jzucker** · 01-30-2026, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by Jx30510

Nice music style ! Your voice has a little Neil Young touch at times

This Gretsch (Duo Jet) has a unique design? I'm watching it on Sweetwater, and notice it's a solid body with floating bridge ? Is there some kind of hollow or bracing in there?

it's heavily chambered. Sort of reminds me of a 335 at times. Slightly shorter scale than gibson. I think if it had PAF pickups in it, it would sound like the gibson

**jzucker** · 01-30-2026, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by Mick-7

We had a discussion about this, Gretsch calls them "chambered" solid bodies -- Gretsch Vintage Select Edition

They show their build here -- Gretsch Build

thanks, i had never seen that. I assumed the chambering was just forstner bits like gibson uses -- a lazyman's hollowbody

**Archie** · 01-30-2026, 05:54 PM

Yeh I thought you'd roped in Neil Young here.

Guitar sounds great, tasty solo too.

**jzucker** · 01-30-2026, 05:57 PM

Originally Posted by Archie

Yeh I thought you'd roped in Neil Young here.

Guitar sounds great, tasty solo too.

Thanks Archie, you know the funny thing. My first and second albums were all originals, a female vocalist. And in Dec, my vocalist was busy with gigs and couldn't record anything so I started singing the songs as a placeholder and eventually realized that my music should have me singing. It's been a couple months and my vocals are getting a little better. I figure i need 6 months minimum. But the first time I listened back, i thought, "OMG, my voice sounds like Neil Young".

And so many people have said that. ? Good thing I love neil young, though not his voice, lol.

**Archie** · 01-30-2026, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by jzucker

Thanks Archie, you know the funny thing. My first and second albums were all originals, a female vocalist. And in Dec, my vocalist was busy with gigs and couldn't record anything so I started singing the songs as a placeholder and eventually realized that my music should have me singing. It's been a couple months and my vocals are getting a little better. I figure i need 6 months minimum. But the first time I listened back, i thought, "OMG, my voice sounds like Neil Young".

And so many people have said that. ? Good thing I love neil young, though not his voice, lol.

You're a blessed man lol

Yes I think there is an argument to be made that if you can sing your own songs, you should.

**jzucker** · 01-30-2026, 11:39 PM

Originally Posted by Archie

You're a blessed man lol

Yes I think there is an argument to be made that if you can sing your own songs, you should.

especially since they are love songs. The singer on my first album asked if she could change the She and her to He and him...

"Ummmm No",

**Doctor Jeff** · 02-04-2026, 09:30 PM

Love it!

I have a Gretsch Double Anni (MIJ) which I love. And yes it will handle jazz as well as rockabilly or grungy rock.

Coincidentally, there are about 6 Gretsches for sale near me on FB marketplace for ridiculous (low) prices—mostly Korean-made.

I don’t need another laminate guitar, but dang these are good bang for the buck.

**Zigracer** · 02-06-2026, 11:06 AM

Awesome! Until the jazz thing hit me, I was all Gretsch, all the time. I still have them and love most everything about them. Two Jet styles that I have are a 6121 1955 and a Sidewinder. Here's a crappy cell phone video of me using the 6121 with the Dynasonic pups at a solo gig. I use a looper to loop a simple bass and rhythm part which I sing and play over. I still struggle getting the tone I like using amp and cab sims from a Tone Master Pro through my Bose system. It appears to fool enough folks to keep them coming back.

**jzucker** · 02-07-2026, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by Zigracer

Awesome! Until the jazz thing hit me, I was all Gretsch, all the time. I still have them and love most everything about them. Two Jet styles that I have are a 6121 1955 and a Sidewinder. Here's a crappy cell phone video of me using the 6121 with the Dynasonic pups at a solo gig. I use a looper to loop a simple bass and rhythm part which I sing and play over. I still struggle getting the tone I like using amp and cab sims from a Tone Master Pro through my Bose system. It appears to fool enough folks to keep them coming back.

Love it, sounds great. i'm wondering if anyone makes a hum canceling version of dynasonic? Cuz those pickups sound so much more twangy and vintagey than the filtertrons but for recording they are unusable in my setup

**Zigracer** · 02-07-2026, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by jzucker

Love it, sounds great. i'm wondering if anyone makes a hum canceling version of dynasonic? Cuz those pickups sound so much more twangy and vintagey than the filtertrons but for recording they are unusable in my setup

Indeed. In the wrong room, the Dynas can be very noisy. I have various version of Filtertrons in the rest of my Gretsch electrics. TV Jones makes a "T Armond" which takes away some of the super highs, but to my knowledge it's still a single coil. A couple of guys were playing Jets with Dynas and T-Armonds side by side for comparison, several years ago at one of our Gretschpages Roundups. I don't remember them sounding all that different. There were recordings on the Gretschpages, but they went down the toilet with the rest of the site.

**jzucker** · 02-07-2026, 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by Zigracer

Indeed. In the wrong room, the Dynas can be very noisy. I have various version of Filtertrons in the rest of my Gretsch electrics. TV Jones makes a "T Armond" which takes away some of the super highs, but to my knowledge it's still a single coil. A couple of guys were playing Jets with Dynas and T-Armonds side by side for comparison, several years ago at one of our Gretschpages Roundups. I don't remember them sounding all that different. There were recordings on the Gretschpages, but they went down the toilet with the rest of the site.

i reached out to a couple custom builders to see if they could make something but most of the custom builders make 5 pickups.

Humbucker,
Strat,
Tele neck,
Tele bridge,
P90

And something like the gretsch is a non standard size so they'd have to customize the bobbins, magnets, top plate, etc. Guys like fraling and novak could do it but probably at a $250/each price point.

**Mick-7** · 02-07-2026, 05:15 PM

They say there are alternative solutions, more or less effective, to replacing the pickups....

Forum Thread: Muffling a noisy guitar

**jzucker** · 02-07-2026, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by Mick-7

They say there are alternative solutions, more or less effective, to replacing the pickups....

Forum Thread: Muffling a noisy guitar

never had luck with gates, they just mask the noise when things get below a certain DB level, some have frequency based attenuation. Supposedly the hum debugger works well.

**John A.** · 02-08-2026, 12:48 AM

Originally Posted by jzucker

never had luck with gates, they just mask the noise when things get below a certain DB level, some have frequency based attenuation. Supposedly the hum debugger works well.

I have a Hum Debugger. It does work quite well, especially with clean sounds, but there can be artifacts on the string setting (especially with overdrive).

**jzucker** · 02-08-2026, 12:49 AM

Originally Posted by John A.

I have a Hum Debugger. It does work quite well, especially with clean sounds, but there can be artifacts on the string setting (especially with overdrive).

thanks, that's what I was worried about. Maybe some sort of dummy coil circuit though I don't know of anything designed for dynasonic pickups. Too bad they don't make a RWRP set.

**LesB3** · 02-08-2026, 09:27 AM

Originally Posted by jzucker

thanks, that's what I was worried about. Maybe some sort of dummy coil circuit though I don't know of anything designed for dynasonic pickups. Too bad they don't make a RWRP set.

Actually, TV Jones T-Armonds are RWRP sets with no hum in the middle position. I have a Country Club with them in it, as well as a heavily-modified Epiphone (with three) and they are great for Jazz or other cleaner styles because of it. Modern Gretsch Dynasonics do not appear to be, however.

Also, all of my recent Guilds (X-175, SF-III, SF-VI) with their own brand of "Dynasonic" are RWRP as well, though these are less like a classic DeArmond and more like a P-90.

**jzucker** · 02-09-2026, 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by LesB3

Actually, TV Jones T-Armonds are RWRP sets with no hum in the middle position. I have a Country Club with them in it, as well as a heavily-modified Epiphone (with three) and they are great for Jazz or other cleaner styles because of it. Modern Gretsch Dynasonics do not appear to be, however.

Also, all of my recent Guilds (X-175, SF-III, SF-VI) with their own brand of "Dynasonic" are RWRP as well, though these are less like a classic DeArmond and more like a P-90.

sounds like they have changed too much. I just want a dynasonic with RWRP, not something that changes the design.

Our version of the original DeArmond 2000 pickups are more controlled in the high frequencies, taking away earth shattering ice-pickiness while keeping that "off-the-rails" attitude that these pickups are known for. Of course, at lower gain levels they sing with unmatched fidelity and clarity. This version of the T-Armond with the proprietary T-Series cover makes it easy to suspend in a humbucker or Filter'Tron cavity