Thanks so much to everyone who joined us recently. Thank you to everyone who has been a subscriber for a long time. I have contacted the potential winner of the 30,000 sub contest and I'll announce probably on monday once I hear back. We will be doing this again soon. We will also be doi.g another smaller giveaway at the end of the month. Thanks for your support. If you want to help out Patreon.com/dylantalkstone thanks again. This is JIST GETTING STARTED

I wonder if someone looked outside their window, saw a person filming, and said, "I'll bet he's talking about different types of hum cancelling guitar pickups."

It'd be interesting to see you compare regular Fender single-coils with the Noiseless stuff they put in the Ultra and Deluxe series

I can’t stop seeing that tree as your hair. Ha! Anyway, how about you do a video on the DeArmonds?

Please cover the "Gold foil" issue. It's been pissing me off since they were "rediscovered" and suddenly became "boutique"...with the associated price.

Congrats on all the new subs Dylan, you’ve helped me feel confident doing work on my own guitar, and you’ve given me a wealth answers to the “whys” and “hows” that I wouldn’t have ever thought to ask. Thanks!

Thanks Dylan, this was one of your most informative posts ever. There has always been a air of mystery when it comes to filtertrons and I'm super glad you took the time to explain the differences!

Thanks so much for covering this dude!! Been so keen to see this video ❤

Dylan! Since I just discovered your channel this year, 2022, I have a lot of your content to view. You have a knack for de-mystifying, describing, and explaining in detail how things work. Thank you for posting!

Congrats on hitting 30k! Thanks for explaining all the cool pickup specs.

Oh Dylan I was that guy requesting this! Thank you! 🎸

This is now my favorite guitar tech talk on the net.. Thank you Dylan!

Really like this video series. Probably the best presented info on the more esoteric pick-up types available.

You answer a lot of questions I've always had on your channel. I feel that finding you on KZfaq was a very lucky thing

Wow, learned so much. Have a Gretch with them. Totally unique sound, lower output yes but that is what the amp volume is for. Buttery beautiful cleans and low gain

Thanks for another great video. I really appreciate the way you take subjects that could easily digress in to tech talk that would lose the average "Joe" in a minute or two, and keep to basic, common terms that just about anybody can understand. That's a trait of a good teacher.

These are really great and informative videos. Thanks!

I’ve learned so much from your videos wish I found these earlier on. Keep crushing it!

Really useful information and thank you for taking the time to post.

GREAT clip - super informative. Thank you very much. Keep 'em coming !!!

That was my question in the last vídeo! Thanks Dylan!

I won't be able to watch this, when it goes live because of work, but i just wanted to say YESSSS!

Thank you for a brief and very accurate description of these pickups

I have a home build Jupiter Thunderbird with vintage Filtertrons, and i love that sound. Thanks for the video!

As usual fantastic content. Dylan you have made so much sense and built my confidence in building my guitars. I'm so happy with them. Its special to play something you've put together, no need for high priced guitars.

I think you gave the right explanation bout the difference between Filtertrons and PAF's. At least someone that was able to tell these differences... Good job man !

Thanks Dylan. Another awesome video. Great info.

I wonder what how Dylan's neighbors react to seeing him standing near the curb, gesturing, and talking enthusiastically... ...to no one.

Was waiting for this. Thanks so much. Great info. Yes, please do a gold foil episode. I would also love to see the difference between Bass and Guitar pickups. What is different between a single coil (Jbass/start), humbucker(Pbass/Music Man/PAF), etc. Thanks Dylan, am loving your channel so much.

I learn something with every video! Thanks!

Woohoooo! Great to see you got to 30k!. I really like these info videos. Can you demonstrate the difference in sound in a hi-lo tron and a Fender-type single coil?

Another great video & wow that is ALOT of diffrence between the 2 styles of pickups !!

Always good to get some new knowledge, that was fascinating.

Learning so much from your videos great job.

Thank you very informative, definitely will look into changing my pickups on my G2655

Looking forward to this.😁

I always appreciate the info. Im kind of drawn towards small humbuckers. They sound right for my playing. So I might have to give these a try..i thought I had. But you showed exactly the guitar I tried them on. My first guitar had (awful) top mount pickups no routing! My first real guitar had carvin m22 distortion pickups still have and love them. I don't know why people hate on low output pickups though amps have plenty of drive these days.

Congrats on 30 thousand subscribers!

Alway great to learn more thanks Dylan

thank you Dylan .. very useful info

Always wondered this. Will watch.

Gratulation for 30 000 Followers 👍

Congratulations on 30k!

Thanks for this video, been wanting to look under the hood for a while. Yes, please do a video on gold foils!

Congrats on 30k!

Neck position of a Telecaster - YES. I have the TV Jones Filtertron style neck pickup in my Tele, and combined with a very bitey Tele bridge pickup ('62 imitation) they just sound amazing.

Jesus, now I've got to take my bridge pick up out and open it up to check. Great informative, interesting and helpful post,. Cheers 😎🎸✅

Great information as always. Congrats on the 30K subs, it will be 50K before you know it.

Wow, great video, I recently got a TMG Tele with a a p-90 in the bridge and I want to put a Filtertron in the neck. So thanks for mentioning that configuration, Im excited to try that!

keep this series up it great knowledge

Always great knowledge.

Hi Dylan! I like your videos and i found it is very informative! Im wondering how pickup works on semi hollow guitar, do they pickup sound of acoustic resonance? Does tonewood affect semi hollow guitar?

Another informative video. Thanks.

Thanks for the info I never even herd of a Filtertron before.

I really enjoyed this video. I'm just learning to play guitar and I dig both the twangy early country/rockabilly sort of sound that seems to go along with hollow-body guitars and Humbuckers, but I also really like the twangy reverb of surf guitar and Stratocasters. I bought two kit guitars of each type to build, but it's the Humbuckers that sent me down a rabbit hole. I wanted to put better pickups in the hollow-body so I was wondering about the difference between Humbuckers and Filtertrons, and then I was seeing Humbuckes with two rows of screws like the cheap pickups that came with my kit, then I'm seeing ones with only one row of screws but they say they're dual coil, then there's ones that are single coil but look like those dual coil ones, and WOW, I'm confused! Your video explained the difference so well and I really liked the little history lesson worked in there. There's a lot of terminology that I don't understand, but I'm a history nerd and I do love that early twangy sound and the later surf-style offshoot. Thanks - I subscribed!

Nice vid as always. Also would love to see DylanDOTone ;) and to hear from your vids how real filtertron sounds, or vintage WideRange or GoldFoil or any other nontypical pickup. Keep up to good work man

Thanks Dylan, finally you explained to all of us what the difference is!!!💪🤘🤘🤘

Congrats on 30k! I bet you were happy doing a video with cars and trucks driving by! Lol

This is great Dylan! It would be cool to hear some samples Never played a filtertone

"Fight me in the comment." Lmao - I love that. Good information here.

awesome video ... no crap, got to the point quickly, explained it all extremely well ... 5 stars

I think the music industry blew up was because we had an enormous amount of trained personnel leaving the service. These guys repaired all kinds of electronics for the service and we had the manufacturing facilities to make anything that could be sold. That and the celebration of the war being over that lit up the music world, radios and speakers got better and the audiophiles were born. My father in law helped the Navy in two special projects. First, as a matter of necessity was surface contact radar, which allowed destroyers to hunt German Uboats at night when they were running on the surface to charge their batteries. Then he worked on radio ranging and triangulation to help aircraft find their targets or their way back home after their nighttime bombing runs. After the war he worked for RCA where he and his partner designed a transistor for them. Having completed their job 6 months ahead of schedule, RCA gave the men the use of their lab to do whatever they wanted for six months, or they could just go home and take six months pay. They chose to take time in the lad and they invented the Op-amp. The work they did was the property of RCA, and the company thought it was far too advanced for any device they could market, so they shelved. In the mean time my father in law and his partner had worked with the University of Pennsylvania to make the semi conductor material for the products they had designed, so when RCA shelved their Op-Amp the Professor they had been working with published a paper on the design. A few years later and Texas Instruments took that design, modified it, patented their variation on the Op-Amp and started pumping calculators which led to the IBM computer and on to the PC that sits in every household. I believe similar things happened everywhere in the electronics industry, including pickups for guitars! Thanks for another great video explaining the difference between filter trans and humbuckers, and I like your idea of running one in the middle of a tele! I’d want a 5 way switch so I could split the coils like this. Position 1, the neck pick up. Position 2, the neck pickup and the upper coil of the filtertron. Pos3, both coils of the filter tron. Pos4 the bottom coil of the tron and the bridge pickup. And position 5, the bridge pickup by itself. That sounds like a fun way to go!

From Leo: Congratulations on the 30K!

Congratulations on 30k followers.

Thanks for the education

Thanks for info I learned a lot

From Leo: I have Filtertron equiped Gretsch's. that are back to early 1960's. The collector price of the 1954/1955 Chet Atkins models with the hand wound Ray Butts pickups are way above my comfort level. The HiLo (single coils) are amazingly articulate and loud, especially compared to other single coils of the time. I still like them. String height adjustment on a Filtertron (or DeArmond) is done with proper spacers, not springs and sponges. The covers pretty much hold the Filtertron together. I do adjust the screws if I need to balance the volume. Never had one fall apart or rattle. Most of them are solid mounted to the wood, so it cannot move. You are correct about some of the Streamliner series having the Fender influenced humbuckers. They even mount like a regular humbucker, they are voiced for a more crisp, open sound leaning toward a Filtertron. The new BroadTrons on the Gretsch Jet guitars are shaped and sized like a FIlterTron, but are clean voiced more like a 1960's humbucker. The is a little disappointing to a Gretsch fan, but they do make the guitars appeal to a far wider group of customers. It is fun to look at all the different ways that people figured out to make magnetic pickups over the years. I have taken apart vintage Japanese pickups where they did not even have a magnet, just a bunch on magnetized iron dust in a blob of glue on a paper wound coils

Very cool explanation--good details and well researched. I'd would definitely like to hear a Filtertron in a Tele!!

It does say 30k! Man that was fast lol!! I really like the am premier's btw, like a lot. More people should do it.

Dylan: the Picasso of pickups. An artist!

Good for u getting 30k hommie!😎🍻

Really well done.

Great video thanks Dylan. Not a comparison video but I'd love to know what construction goes into those Supro lapsteel pickups love the ones that Ry Cooder puts in the bridge position of his Coodercasters

I am going to watch this video a few times Honestly This is very new to me. Great subject thought.

I have a 1959 Gretsch with 1 Hi/low Tron. I thought something was wrong when I try and use it in a effect pedal to tune. It is so weak the tuner cannot pickup much. I check its ohms, 3.2. Wow, but when I run through a boost, with some reverb and effects, sound is SO BIG. Love it.

I really wanted this one. Always very curious to know the difference between 'trons and regular humbuckers.

Very informative!

I have just subscribed after watching so many of your videos and I liked them all. Very good knowledge. I have a question what if winding of a coil is done in individual pole magnets separately instead of winding all between 6 Pole magnets. Does that even sound or not?

Thank you!

Great channel, Dylan, keep it up! How about a comparison of Rickenbacker pickups: the vintage toasters vs the hi-gain? Or the hi-gain vs the filtertron and/or other single coil?

Dylan, what makes the different ‘tron pickups different from one another? There’s the filter, dyna, fidela. There are others too but is there something specific that makes these different from one another or is it just the amount of winds on there or something?

Best Channel on KZfaq, at least on this subject

Hi Dylan! Can you compare a regular strat single to a Dano lipstick pickup? That'd be great!

and right on camera a fedex truck skips to a parallel universe at 3:26 and reappears a minute later in opposite direction. Magic!

Can you review the Tim Shaw Custom Shop Filtertron pickup that was featured in the Fender Rarities Koa top Stratocaster? It has what almost looks like a P-rail configuration, and I can't find any specs for this thing. Would love to know more about that and the gold foils that are used in the neck and middle positions as well! Thanks!

Great vid and good info. I would love to here some thoughts and analysis om the Gretsch Blacktop Filtertrons and the (now phased out I think) Super Hilotrons. I know that they are similar in construction to PAF, but they certainly sound different.

Thanks!

I went back to this vid and it really helped me a lot I got a question: Should I install set of "vintage" spec filtertrons to a hollow body? Or just go with humbuckers? I don't want to cut holes in top because of funky bracing so I got about 21mm of space under the strings. I thought that this thru pickup mounting would be much cleaner than pickup rings

Great video. The skinny Les Paul Deluxe pickup (not the P90)... Is it a humbugging pickup? They always seem to sound very clean. Same pickup on the original Epiphone Riveria. What is the story with it?

Pete T recorded who’s next with the Gretsch, so the filtertrons deff rock,

A Filtertron in the neck of a Tele is amazing! I did it on a Squier HH tele. I swapped the humbuckers for a GFS Retro-tron (similar idea, I'm sure not as good as the real deal) and a GFS surf 90, which remind me of the DeArmond pickups I had in an instrument I stupidly sold years ago. Anyway, I would love to see you do a video of those in a Tele. It's a sick combo, and people need to know about it! :)

Hi Dylan, do you have an opinion on Guitar Fetish (GFS) pickups? They make a filtertron style that i want to try but I'm afraid it might just be a regular humbucker

My next guitar will be a 6120 T Brian Setzer 59 Smoke. I'm getting rid of everything except my 1950's Tele. Thanks for the vid. Your feeding the fire! Fan the flames!

Hey I have a question I am looking at a guardrail stat So how much do the springs in a strat affect the tone at all? Eric Johnson has 5 springs, do the springs affect tone Thanks

I often been looking at some of my old pickups and forgot why I changed them in the first place. Is there a way to know why they sounded dull or whatever the case and maybe change magnets or remagnetize or a magic wand and a spell. Do you have such a video or could you consider making one?

What does mismatched coils do the the guitar tone of a filtertron (like the Brian setzer signature pickup) or any other humbucker for that matter? Also does a blender wiring set up (say on a strat) accomplish something similar.

beginning guitarist here..luv yur channel, my mum bought me a schecter ultra 3, seems like a GREAT guitar 👍🙋

How can I tell if I've set my pickups too high? I've been making some adjustments to my TELECASTER lately and I really like how it's working out tonally. However, I suspect that I may have set my pickups too high. How can I tell? Thanks! BTW, I've been really digging the channel lately. Congratulations on reaching 30k! Cheers!

I purchased the newer gretsch ratrod 5410t because of the better pickups. I did some research and found that the gretsch streamliner has regular filtertrons. And the Jr jet also regular filtertrons. My question is what do you think about the black top filtertrons vs the ones they use on the other editions? Thanks

Great. Thx mate. What do need to replace a p90 with a filter Tyron in my tele on neck position? Looking for a replacement in my les Paul on bridge position too… can you provide some profound info? Thx in advance.