My thoughts on Filtertron Pickups...

[@badalicemusic]

Thanks dude. I’m loving the whole Gretsch filtertron vibe, especially in a Jet/LP style guitar but I had been wondering a lot about how they cope with higher gain and when playing in a band either live or at rehearsal. This was a really helpful video for those questions!

[@sebastiancarballo7821]

Interesting video, Jimmy Page often used a Telecaster in the studio, but on stage he needed the Les Paul. What I do in those cases is use a compressor before the distortion so you reduce the dynamic range and the sound is more forceful. Greetings

[@DunderHead.5000]

TV Jones has so nany 'Tron' pickups I wish they would come out with a Mega'tron pickup.

[@sebastianestrada1311]

XD

[@jerryvelders4457]

No offense intended, but I don't know how you can evaluate a pickup by playing it with the gain on 11. All I hear is clipping. But to be fair, I'm not into that head-banger thing.

[@FKR35]

Well everybody else likes it

[@JN-qj9gf]

Thanks. Very useful info

[@bluestudio67]

I've been a tele guy since high school. Picked up a Gretsch Jet the other day while shopping for a butterscotch tele... fell in love and bought it. I can get that spank yet pull off a great Angus sound. At 51, I'm a blues and classic rock guy. It pulls of some grunge, too. Where it shines is in semi-clean blues. I can absolutely nail BB King, yet still grab a single coil tone. They changed my preference in guitars.

[@SisterRose]

This was pretty helpful actually, I'm looking for a cheap guitar to tune low and use for doom/psychadelic sounds. Despite having a reputation for "Muddy" sounds, a lot of the big stoner guys actually used more pafy/vintagey brighter voiced HBs like you describe(Josh Homme used Dimarzio Super 2s for example) and of course Tomi Iommi used P90s. I love the sound of a heavily distorted filtertron since I'm a bit fan of those glassy gnarly fuzzy tones, but you bring up some good points, esp. with how the chugs sound. I feel like if I am to get a Filtertron guitar i probably wouldn't use it for that specifically, and right now a fair amount of that is probably covered by my single coil guitars.

[@cooltunesmadeeasy]

Interesting great info ..!

[@Darthbrandon81]

Ive had the stock filtertrons that came in My Tennessee rose, found them to be very muddy sounding, and the tv jones classics to have a very similar sound only slightly improving, lacking the clarity and punch I found With the CLASSIC PLUS Pickups which had much broader, richer tonality, more color, perfect blend of the treble, mids & bass, it really shimmers. Ive had them put im 5 of my guitars over the years, they are the most verstile & suitable for almost any genre of music, ive had strats, les pauls & Gretsch mostly, throughout the last 25 years. These pickups give you the best of both worlds, the singlr coil strat & humbucker Les paul

[@les7118]

thanks for video. how are they for playin metal? trash or power.

[@humanthehuman]

Thank you so much for this! I play in a emo/pop punk band and it seems like every filtertron demo on KZbin is just clean/ambient stuff. Super helpful to hear them in the context I'd use them in. I have a Jaguar with a standard humbucker but it's too muddy/woofy for my taste, I'm torn between filtertrons and wide range humbuckers; do you have a recommendation between those two? I mostly play articulated math rock stuff paired with fast chuggy palm muted riffs and drop tuned rhythm parts

[@simonaustin1136]

Hey man super cool! For articulate tone a lot of it is the relationship between both your guitar and your amp. Either your amp is too dark/ muddy or the pickup is, maybe even a combination of both. Seymour Duncas Phat Cat P90's are great for clarity, and that paired with a good amp will definitely do the job for you! Also with respect to gain, less is more! Better to boost the amp volume instead and play a bit harder first before adding gain, this will preserve the clarity of your tone much better. Check out my band Incase We Crash on Tik Tok, we've got a few tone tips on there for ya!

[@jacobbockover1628]

Thaks

[@dominicmcmahon4798]

What about the broadtrons like in the new g2222? Those guitars seem mad for the money I'm eyeing one off hard.

[@fraterfraxinus6293]

Excellent advice

[@Beachbumartist]

Great video man

[@craigbranscum4041]

Got the super deluxe tele with the TV Jones love it.

[@elnyoutube123]

You should try TV Jones Powertrons or a Powertron Plus in the bridge. It's basically a Classic but much richer and higher output and more attack. It sounds like if DiMarzio made a filtertron lol

[@restlessextraz1591]

You deserve more subs dude

[@simonaustin1136]

thanks dude!! i'm working on it loool

[@bluelane]

Srsly- good stuff

[@Mr.Monster1313]

Where did you get the pickup ring.plastic...how did you make it fit? Had to. Buy the diff pickup ring? ..im wanting to add a filtertron and a p90 in my fake gibson lp.. but i want them to fit somehow with new rings..and no routing etc..

[@adamjolin]

What pickup ring did you go with?

[@jessebreakspear6656]

I hear the magnet is stronger but the impedance is lower than a traditional humbucker so they're more bright and dynamic great for recording but I have to agree you don't want more dynamics than what you used to for a live situation

[@rodrigovaldes9931]

You look and sound exactly like Tim Skold. It's crazy

[@utubehound69]

Malcolm Young's career Fly's in the face of everything you said about playing Rock Loud Live w/Fillertron TV Jones Pickups.

[@simonaustin1136]

I was referencing more modern high gain, obviously filtertrons can hand some gain and yield a great sound, but when it comes to fast aggressive palm mutes and drop tunings etc, they're probably not a first choice. Good criticism to address though, thank you!

[@cminty6805]

He literally says "if you have a classic rock sound you'll be fine, you'll sound great live'. Your comment doesn't deserve a polite reply you sound like a moron

[@TheFarout69]

How do you like that Starwood Tele neck pup? I put on in my Duo-Sonic and it's sweet.

[@simonaustin1136]

They're good! nice and fat rhythm tones

[@paulsmith616]

So what your saying is you should have got a duo jet to begin with?

[@FabioLovaglio]

Interesting insight, but would the issue of the high gain get fixed with a compressor maybe?

[@IanHaghighat]

Knew as soon as you started playing that you were in a pop punk band 😆 replaced the 57 Classic Plus in my Gibson Midtown with a TV Jones Power’tron Plus and definitely dig it more. What amp are you running through?

[@simonaustin1136]

Hey man! For this demo I was using amp sims, but I have another vid on my channel of it going through an Orange TH30!

[@IanHaghighat]

Nice, man! I run through an Orange AD30 myself

[@moleface3521]

Good and useful video! What bridge pickup was in the gold Les Paul?

[@simonaustin1136]

The stock 498T, still a great sounding pickup, classic LP tone!

[@moleface3521]

@@simonaustin1136 Ok, yes it sounds great! Thanks.

[@bluelane]

Need one of these in my LP. Maybe compressor to even out dynamics for live modern tones?

[@simonaustin1136]

Blue Lane Frontier for anything clean or lightly driven a compressor pedal would compliment a filtertron very well imo. With a high gain amp it naturally compresses the dynamics tho so wouldn't make much of a difference in that case

[@gregblankenship1184]

Nice-sounding distortion, I wonder what the pick up sound like.

[@ac30lifestyle]

Can't hear the pickup character when it's full on distortion.

[@seventwistsclockwise]

I think you might be related to Dimitar Berbatov

[@MrPiperian]

I like that black LP..what is is? Thanks for all your work. And that Filtertron has IT.

[@simonaustin1136]

MrPiperian it's a 1999 Gibson Les Paul studio, I've been messing around and modding it for the last 2 years or so

[@johnlee-bz2du]

Hey what size strings do you use in this video? And would heavier strings maybe help the palm muting chuggability?

[@simonaustin1136]

I’ve been using Ernie ball beefy slinky’s (11-54) for about 4 years now. I definitely think they help with palm mutes and chugging, and for me they stay in tune better because I play pretty hard. Makes soloing and leads harder tho

[@johnlee-bz2du]

Cool, yea i also use 11-54s and thats why i want a spanky pickup. Ive been using a humbucker wound to 9.5k and i dig it but the brighter the better. I think you kind of went over this in the video but to make sure i understand; do the filtertrons have less volume when running through the same amp settings as a humbucker? Like are they quieter than humbuckers given the same amp settings?

[@stevieprice-fx9bi]

Try the Power’Tron plus they’re suppose to be like 7.5k output

[@stevieprice-fx9bi]

8.5k*

[@ko4268]

The tele sounds better to my ear

[@simonaustin1136]

Ko fair enough! Everyone's different and there's a reason people (including myself) love Tele Tones :)

[@craigdines7604]

You said you were going to play clean, then played some stuff covered in overdrive?

[@simonaustin1136]

My bad, I was (and still am) a bit of a video amateur, didn't go back and fix that

[@MrMarcburger]

'Filtertrons do not work in stage environment.' Hm.. Malcolm disagreed.

[@ulriceriksson]

He's talking about what he describes as a "modern" sound, which I interpret as high gain, heavy distortion, palm muted power chords. That's far from what Malcolm did: big, open chords with relatively minor distortion. Different applications.

[@andreyleontiev8825]

Are the Filtertrons good for Hard Rock? Are they coil splitable?

[@simonaustin1136]

I believe the new ones are cool splittable. for hard rock tones it partially depends on the guitar, these in a Les Paul will be much more suitable for that, however palm mutes are still not as beefy and full in the lower mids as a typical humbucker. They sound great for power chords and lead guitar though

[@andreyleontiev8825]

@@simonaustin1136 My guitar is an Epiphone Wildkat, semi hollowed body as Malcom Young's guitar jaja So Filtertrones should work, thank you.

[@mattaki]

@RecluseAndHisGuitar And he was the king of rhythm guitar.

[@flexsez]

@RecluseAndHisGuitar He did specify he was talking about modern sound and application, I agree with Simon.

[@martywhite1084]

My thoughts about that gainy sound: 🤮

[@roberth5611]

Great info, thanks.