The three Gretsh kit demos and stories below

• the story of the new 60's Marine Pearl
  
• the original and the new Black Metallic Gloss
  
• and the supreme & limited to 25 Exotic Red Gum Drum Kits

60's Marine Pearl
The new 60's Marine Pearl finish is a seamless match to the original 60's kit that Paul Cooper, Gretsch's Chief of Operations, owns. The story of how this finish returns to the market is a great one! Andrew Shreve tells you all about it and demos the kit.



Limited Edition Exotic Red Gum Drum Kits
The Gum wood is a huge part of the Gretsch sound. The specialty of this kit is that the standard outer ply of maple, as is standard for the USA Custom, is switched with an Exotic Red Gum instead of the standard gum.
There are only 25 of the two configurations available world-wide. By the time you are reading this, they are probably already sold. The setup you see in the video is configuration #2 that you find below the video.



configuration #1 (GR-J484-RG)
14x18 bass drum, 8x12 rack tom, 14x14 floor tom, 5x14 snare drum

configuration #2 (GR-E8256-RG)
18x22 bass drum, 7x10 & 8x12 rack toms, 14x16 floor tom, 5.5x14 snare drum



The Black Metallic Gloss with 301 Hoops
This finish is a variation on the Brooklyn Satin Gloss Metallic finish that was launched in 2018. To show you what finish that was, we added last year's NAMM footage of it in the video.

The 301 hoops are a build option that is also available for the Broadcaster series. Officially, they’re called the 'Single-flange 301 hoops,' that give the kits that cool look with the vintage-style claw hooks.

Want a USA Custom Gretsch?
This is how it works...

On Gretsch.com you can find all the USA Custom build options; from all the tom, bass and snare drum sizes that USA Custom offers. There is info on all the hardware used and the Remo drumheads that come with the kits.

The colors come in Nitron, Satin and Gloss.
You can make your own selection of all the options Gretsch offers, and to order a kit you can go to your Gretsch dealer or find one of the Round Batch Dealers in the US."

About your host: Andrew Shreve
Andrew has worked for Paiste America for 15 years before joining Gretsch. As a customer service and product specialist he eventually moved into managing marketing and artist relations. At Gretsch drums he is now the Brand and Artist Relations Manager. In this wide profile he is still responsible for scouting new talent and endorsers in combination with the brand management side of his job.

Click here to read a 'Behind the Brand'-interview with Andrew on Gretsch.com.