Description
The G5440LS Electromatic Hollow Body Long-Scale Bass is Gretsch’s new hollow-body bass guitar, featuring two powerful new Black Top Filter’Tron pickups that give it an electrifyingly deep voice and identity.
Its hollow, connected body with unique cutaway resonates with bass-filled tone and balance, and features sonorous upright bracing and elegant mounting holes. Other features include a maple neck, bound rosewood fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets and mother-of-pearl embossed inlays, three-position selector switch, classic G-arrow control knobs, Adjusto-Matic bridge with four rosewood bridges and G-cutaway tailpiece. Available in black and orange.
Body
Body material: 5-ply maple
Body shape: Simple cutaway
Body finish: Gloss Urethane, Gloss Urethane, Gloss Urethane
Bracing : Sound post
handle
Number of frets: 22
Fretsize : Medium Jumbo
Fingerboard: rosewood
Handle material: Maple
Saddle width: 1.6875″ (42.8 mm)
Tuning fork length: 34″ (864 mm)
Electronics
Deck microphone : Black ‘Tron’ top filter
Neck pickup: Black ‘Tron’ top filter
Pick-up switch: 3-position switch : Position 1. bridge, position 2. Bridge and stick pickups, position 3. Handle pickup
Hardware
Hardware finish: Chrome-Plated
Bridge: Adjustable 4-position bridge in rosewood, Adjusto-Matic
keys: Gotoh die-cast
Miscellaneous
Unique features: Bump block fretboard inlay, bonded body top and back, bonded sound holes, bonded fingerboard, knurled strap retainer buttons, adjustable truss rod, “G” cut tailpiece.