The Filter'Tron (often written as Filtertron) is an early model of the humbucker guitar pickup invented by Ray Butts. Butts built the prototype Filter'Tron...
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design elements from Fender's subsidiary Gretsch, notably the brand's Filter'Tron-style pickups. Like all Telecaster submodels, they are labeled simply...
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Ray Butts (section Gretsch Filter'Tron pickup)
the EchoSonic, a guitar amplifier with a built-in tape echo, and the Filter'Tron, one of the first humbucker guitar pickups (used extensively on Gretsch...
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Poulsbo, Washington, the company is best known for creating vintage-style Filter'Tron pickups, using materials and a manufacturing process similar to what...
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for their humbucker design first). Butts' design became the Gretsch Filter'Tron and was used on Gretsch guitars beginning in 1957, and is highly regarded...
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his humbucker, Ray Butts developed a similar pickup on his own, the Filter'Tron, which was taken up by Gretsch guitars. Although Gibson's patent was...
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The DeArmond pickups were discontinued, with Gretsch using their own Filter'Tron humbuckers. Due to changes in musical tastes and changes in Gretsch company...
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Lollartron™ pickups in the neck and bridge, resembling the classic look on the Filter'tron™ pickups, used extensively by Gretsch. Also they feature one model (Olive...
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Filter'Tron, which would be adopted by Gretsch. In 1956, McCarty threatened legal action over design similarities between the P.A.F. and Filter'Tron upon...
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urethane finish, parallel tone bars and sound post, two "Black Top" Filter'Tron pickups, Grover tuners, big block fretboard inlays, a harp tailpiece...
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model. In 2022, Lindy Fralin released a newly-redesigned version of the Filter'Tron pickup - called his Fralin'Tron. "About Us". Fralin Pickups. Retrieved...
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the original single-coil DeArmond Dynasonic pickups were replaced with Filter'Tron humbuckers in 1958, and that same year the Melita bridge was replaced...
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independently developed by Ray Butts, whose patent application was slightly earlier than Lover's; Butts' pickup was licensed to Gretsch as the Filter'Tron...
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the EchoSonic, a guitar amplifier with a built-in tape echo, and the Filter'Tron pickup, the first humbucker guitar pickup (used extensively on Gretsch...
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The tone switch versions of the Duo Jet come equipped with Gretsch's Filter'Tron humbucker pickup made popular by country music guitarist Chet Atkins...
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