Artec Filtertron

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:49 am

Anyone know anything about these pickups? like, what the hell they sound like?

$16.99 BIN on teh bay. It might be worth that much just to find out if they sound any good.

euan · Post by **euan** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:31 am

OEM version of the GFS ones I believe. Those split poles look interesting.

Post by **Hurb** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:49 am

didnt the burbz just put these in his archtop?

Will · Post by **Will** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:55 pm

They're the GFS Retrotron Nashville. I'm guessing they sound like any other ceramic humbucker

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:14 pm

GFS retrotron beats all (including single coils)

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:34 pm

they're not like GFS. GFS are humbucker shape. these are gretsch or tv jones shape with the gibson style humbucker mount.

also, the details of the magnet composition are slightly confusing based on this flyer thing. The top says "ceramic bar" right, and then if you look at the details for the the individual pickups it says, "alnico5 bar" and then if you look at the details for the last one it says... steel bar????? really confusing.

what I'm guessing is that it might be Alnico 5 poles with a ceramic "bar" magnet on the bottom of the humbucker. who knows.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:16 pm

Artec is the same company that makes a good deal of GFS's pickups. I think the reason why there are so many confusing specs is because they will build these things for companies with whatever specs you want.

these are the same size as the Revtrons I believe that come on Reverends, and GFS does actually sell a replacement for those but I believe it has a solid cover, and is menat to be more minibucker than "Filtertron". The word Filtertron in describing all these pickups is totally bogus. They're not Gretsch pickups, in any way.

http://shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.p ... ight=artec