Limited Edition Abbey Road Studiomatic™ Hollow Body with Bigsby®

For nearly a century, Abbey Road Studios has shaped the history of recorded music and popular culture. The birthplace of some of the greatest recordings ever created, and a hotbed for the development of innovative techniques and equipment, Abbey Road is the home of music making.

Gretsch is proud to partner with Abbey Road on the development and release of a very special Limited Edition guitar – the Gretsch Abbey Road Studiomatic™ Hollow Body. Featuring custom Filter’Tron™ pickups, and a custom-voiced Rumble Filter circuit developed in collaboration with Abbey Road sound engineers, the Abbey Road Studiomatic™ is not only an homage to the continuing legacy of Abbey Road Studios, but also a unique and incredibly versatile guitar.

FEATURES:

• 2.25” deep maple body with parallel bracing
• Classic “C” shaped maple neck
• 12” radius bound ebony fingerboard with pearloid Neo-Classic™ Thumbnail inlays
• Graph Tech® TUSQ XL nut
• Custom Filter’Tron™ pickups
• Rumble Filter circuit with two-position rotary selector and push/pull pots for each pickup
• Adjusto-Matic™ bridge on secured ebony base
• Bigsby® B60 V-Cutout vibrato tailpiece
• Custom Abbey Road Studiomatic metal head badge
• Gold Hardware
• Custom hardshell case and exclusive case candy items included
• Available in Classic Walnut Stain

HIGHLIGHTS:

Custom Filter’Tron™ Pickups

Voiced and studio tested in collaboration with Abbey Road sound engineers, these custom Filter’Tron™ humbucking pickups feature Alnico 5 magnets and a vintage-inspired voice that delivers quintessential Filter’Tron chime, balance, and articulation.

Rumble Filter Circuit

Inspired by a classic circuit developed at Abbey Road Studios, and developed in collaboration with a team of the Studios’ sound engineers, the exclusive Rumble Filter circuit provides two additional voicings that make this guitar an exceptionally versatile tool for the studio or stage. Devised by Abbey Road’s in-house team in 1954, the original Rumble Filter was designed to remove excessive low-end frequencies and add clarity to the sound and became a key tool in the studio team’s pioneering work to improve the fidelity of recordings.

Activated by a push/pull pot on each pickup’s Tone control, and controlled by a two-way rotary switch, the Rumble Filter offers what are essentially two different levels of high-pass filtering. This allows exceptional sonic flexibility without splitting the pickup coils, tightening up the bass response while allowing the higher frequencies to ring through, all while still retaining the full humbucking properties of the Filter’Tron pickups.