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Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:01 pm
by ollenorin
Routing needed ? How do you fill up the space between the bigger pickupholes in the jazzmaster and the filtertrons ?
Re: Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:17 pm
by CurtisNovak
ollenorin wrote:
Routing needed ? How do you fill up the space between the bigger pickupholes in the jazzmaster and the filtertrons ?
Hey Olle,
I tried this combo, and to tell you the truth I was NOT at all impressed w/ it at all.
curtis
Re: Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:50 pm
by ollenorin
hi curtis !
really ? why not ? i love the tv jones classic´s...theyre fantastic in my gretsch silver falcon.
Re: Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:57 pm
by mjet
ollenorin wrote:
hi curtis !
really ? why not ? i love the tv jones classic´s...theyre fantastic in my gretsch silver falcon.
Silver Falcons and Jazzmasters couldn't be more different, though. Pickups only amplify sound, they don't create it. And a solid body Fender is obviously a world away from a semi-hollow (or hollow?) bodies Gretsch, so great sound in one could sound "off" in the other, and vice-versa.
Re: Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:34 pm
by JazzBlaster
mjet260 wrote:
ollenorin wrote:
hi curtis !
really ? why not ? i love the tv jones classic´s...theyre fantastic in my gretsch silver falcon.
Silver Falcons and Jazzmasters couldn't be more different, though. Pickups only amplify sound, they don't create it. And a solid body Fender is obviously a world away from a semi-hollow (or hollow?) bodies Gretsch, so great sound in one could sound "off" in the other, and vice-versa.
+1 good point!
Re: Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:02 am
by ollenorin
yes but gretsch uses those pickups in a lot of their solidbody guitars as well.....and i doubt they suck.
Re: Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:33 am
by mjet
It's hit or miss, with the ultimate judge being your own ears. Curtis said he wasn't impressed, and I put a high degree of value on his professional opinions. But that doesn't mean that person B wouldn't like it, so if you're curious, go for it and report back.
Re: Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:11 am
by ollenorin
im gonna go for it....ive already got 3 other jazzmasters and i want one with funnier specs
Re: Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:40 am
by JazzBlaster
I am sure a custom wound set would sound fine
Re: Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:51 am
by Superfuzz
I've never get the chance to play a gretsch but I know that they're sparkly sounding..so 'trons are different in construction from Jazzmaster's but the ending result should be similar..maybe the 'trons with the blade instead of the polepieces could be more interesting..
Re: Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:30 pm
by JazzBlaster
I owned a Duo jet once and it was nothing like a Jazzmaster a humbucking puckup captures frequency in a different way. Some people just think of pickups in term of output, but there is way more to it than that.
Re: Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:43 pm
by FireAarro
Someone here has a Strat with 3 'trons in it, and he says it sounds great.
Re: Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:10 pm
by cmatthes
Yep - that's me. It's actually a Hamer Daytona (their way better take on a Strat). Fantastic clean tones, really clear and sparkly. Push it, and it overdrives nicely - very Pete Townshendy.
I dig it.
Re: Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:58 pm
by ollenorin
cmatthes wrote:
Yep - that's me. It's actually a Hamer Daytona (their way better take on a Strat). Fantastic clean tones, really clear and sparkly. Push it, and it overdrives nicely - very Pete Townshendy.
I dig it.
very cool !!!
i guess the filtertrons aint too bad in a fender then...
Re: Anyone installed Filtertrons in their Jazzmaster ?
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:30 am
by CurtisNovak
mjet260 wrote:
It's hit or miss, with the ultimate judge being your own ears. Curtis said he wasn't impressed, and I put a high degree of value on his professional opinions. But that doesn't mean that person B wouldn't like it, so if you're curious, go for it and report back.
I totally agree... I was just expressing my feeling on it please dont let that stop you.
curtis