Gold Foil style pickups vs Filtertron

[Spud]

I now feel that Filtertron pickups are very likely evil and should be steered clear of!!

 

[Rick]

Filtertrons need a bigsby ... or if no filtertrons Spud needs a bigsby. Bigsby good.

Filter'Tron - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Spud]

Filtertrons need a bigsby ... or if no filtertrons Spud needs a bigsby. Bigsby good.

Filter'Tron - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I have three sir!

 

[Spud]

I now feel that Filtertron pickups are very likely evil and should be steered clear of!!

After much looking and thinking old Spud has seized the proverbial day and gone straight to the pinnacle of Filtertron.................esque........pickups to gingerly dip his toe in the water! TV Jones? .......nope, Gretsch?.....no sir..........Duncan?...........no way............Artec?..........oh yes! We shall see.

 

[Hodgo]

I’ve been hmmming and hawing over another Filtertron guitar myself Spud. For my cabronita build I sourced some Gretsch Mega’trons which are sooperhot ceramic import trons found on the Corvettes, but finding a set is quite difficult.

I think an interesting way to approach this would be getting a hotter tron, like a Powertron, and having a Wilde pickups Q Filter in the controls to roll off some impedance - passively shape it down to Classic/Ray Butts/T-Armond impedance with a knob.

 

[Spud]

I’ve been hmmming and hawing over another Filtertron guitar myself Spud. For my cabronita build I sourced some Gretsch Mega’trons which are sooperhot ceramic import trons found on the Corvettes, but finding a set is quite difficult.

I think an interesting way to approach this would be getting a hotter tron, like a Powertron, and having a Wilde pickups Q Filter in the controls to roll off some impedance - passively shape it down to Classic/Ray Butts/T-Armond impedance with a knob.

If I decide I want to go quality ones, I might try Seymour Duncan Psychlotrons in a Humbucker shell.