![]() ![]() The pickup rings are now vintage-style moulded surrounds, but the Black Top Filter’Tron pickups are suspended from the rings like Gibson humbuckers and there are two screws on the bass side to adjust the angle relative to the strings as well as pickup height. ![]() Our review model has chrome hardware and open-geared tuners. The headstock was changed to the smaller, late-50s outline, with aged binding added. The current iteration was launched during the summer of 2016, with a sleeker look and the Electromatic logo moved from the headstock to the pickguard. ![]() The Electromatic name has deep roots in Gretsch history, but has been used as a series designation since 2004. Early-50s-style clear plastic knobs are fitted, along with Grover-style die-cast tuners. The original Tim Shaw designed Broad’Tron pickups have been updated to create the Broad’Tron BT-2S, with reconfigured windings to improve clarity while increasing output and punch. A new range of colours was introduced, along with aged multi-ply binding, tortoiseshell pickguards, hump block inlays for the hollow bodies and larger f-holes. The Streamliner series was launched in 2016 and upgraded at the beginning of 2019. Although all three lines have been around for a while, there have been some recent changes. ![]()
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