Putting Filtertrons In a Telecaster! - AMAZING Tone!
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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This is in my top 5 channels to watch and without a doubt the top channel for guitar mods, reviews and guitar playing wizardry! Keep 'em coming, especially the Tele stuff!! ;)
Anyone here have a older vintage mod Squier cabronita tele that can say yay, or nay? I have one here in town for sale on the cheap and I've always liiked the idea of Ftron pickups/tele combo but not liking the demos on YT of the Squier Fidelitrons...HELP!!
7:01 did you restring it the wrong way only to realize your mistake and fix it in the next clip? My OCD was flaring high, happy it got resolved.
Yeah he tried to sneak that one by lol.
Nothing gets by the EAGLE EYE of a guitar nerd! My first thought, too ;-)
Haha my same thought there, came here for the cool build though!
I was totally like "no- wrong way, wrong way, wrong way!" LOL
As it slowly winded, I yelled "dear lord no!"
you put the string at 7:08 the other way around and then you did it the right way hahahah, its 1:16am, i just came from work and these videos are the things that i enjoy the most :)
What a cool mod, and it even still has that Tele spank! Great job Darrell, and as always, love your exquisite playing!
Great video and modification.
You put out really great stuff.
I got a little worried when you installed the first string, but in the next shot I see you corrected it. ;-0
Keep up the good work, love your channel!
Thanks AJ!
The capo trick for restringing is brilliant! I have a 135 with a trapeze tailpiece and it's always an ordeal to get the ball end to stay in while winding the tuning peg. Never thought to use a capo to hold it in place! My life just got easier. Thank you!
Sounds great! Especially the high gain and dirty bridge tone. Keep those pickups on man!
Thanks JL! Will do 👍
Looks and sounds great Brother!!!
Thanks MH!
Sounds and looks amazing!!!
Thanks Alexis!
I like the look of that guitar...
Hi Darrell, could you do a comparison with DiMarzio EJ Custom, TV Jones Classic and Gretsch Filtertrons ?
where can we buy a filtertron conversion ring for lespaul？
can I put a supertron in a danelectro xt's or the 66-12 at the neck ! plate and holes line up ?
Can you link to your Dremel tool? Wanting to invest in one and there's so much choice I'm not sure which one to go for!
Where did you buy that bridge plate from??
That's amazing. A thinline Tele with Filtertrons AND a Bigsby pushes all three of my electric guitar hot buttons.
He got that Malcolm tone for a minute. I want a Duo Jet w/Filltron pickup like Mal's. They have a replica out but it's too expensive.
Squier Cabronita! I have one it's very good.
So you've essentially made a Gretsch Telecaster. Crazy cool, and it sounds amazing. Makes me want to pick up my Electromatic and start jamming.
Except no Gretch ever sounded this good. 8:19
@@keithrowe7617 Oh, I staunchly disagree. That's a classic Gretsch sound right there.
I think those Filtertrons found their new forever home! Sounds great and a super job!
Thanks for the kind words!
I agree, I think they are there to stay :)
We've got some Tele content lined up for you guys today!
The plans have been in the works for this mod for a long while, and today I finally got to hear what it sounds like!
Darrell Braun Guitar sounds great!
Thanks Wally!
Beautiful guitar sounds awesome too!
Terroristic playing as always Darrell love them Slow Blues:)
Thanks so much Tammy!
Pretty sweet! Clean, it sounds more like a trad Tele than I thought it might.
If only someone already made a hollowbody with filtertrons and a bigsby! Sounds like a great combo!
Gibson already did; Chris Cornell edition 335s.
@QS and also like most Gretsch guitars lol
Man, I love the vintage style Fender tuners. They never go out of tune, like locking tuners but cheaper. Why dont all guitar manufacturers use them?
They are a pretty amazing design aren't they!
I totaly agree
Right first time!
It still has that Tele twang going on but with a little more warmth and fullness of sound than you would usually get from a Tele with single coils. If I was going to compare the sound with anything I would say it was similar to humbuckers that have had the mid range scooped at the EQ and possibly getting a treble boost. Visually they really suit the guitar.
Hey Darrel i got an idea for a future video. How about a tone comparison between some Fat 60s pick ups vs Fender Texas specials in a strat.
Yes. More strat pup tone differences with the stock ceramics all the way up to the most expensive. Most cases in store I found I'd preferred more Mexican strats...not all of course but a few indeed ..warmer
Hi!
I'll see what I can do :)
+Darrell Braun Guitar sweet! Hope to see it soon
Jacob Tooshkenig Fat 50s? Never heard of Fat 60s but that doesn’t mean anything. I love that idea though and none that I could use.
Cool mod! Sounds great. Looks cool too. It's interesting what's been happening with pickups. A lot of players are getting into retro tones and putting Filtertrons, gold foils and P-90s in so many guitars. There's a lot more to pickups than simple PAFs and single coils, active and passive.
All guitars should have those keys. No finger strings poking, bleeding, swearing bad moment ever .
This has got to be the coolest mod you’ve done yet. It sounds awesome! And for the life of me I don’t why in all my years I never thought of using a capo to help string a bigsby:) thanks man:)
Nice conversion & it sounds great ~. 5*’s all the way!
Just a ‘Heads Up’. Warmoth can do a Thinline pkgd w/ a Filtertron pup. Just have to specify it & of course, there’s an upcharge.... 👀
Really nice sound and combination with the Bigsby and Filtertron pickups. The sound is thick and warm enough for that edgy rock vibe, but is also bright and clear for the clean sounds-without sounding too bright/tinny. Thank you for posting this.
Great Mod. Truly silent. I had an American Standard (Ash body/Maple veneer top). I hated the Fender (Not) Silent pickups. When I took off the pick plate it was routed for a middle pickup from the factory. I guess it was also set up as a " Nashville model." i routs a hole for a middle pickup and installed 3 Lace Sensor Gold pickup and a 5 Way Super Switch. I wired it for standard neck/middle/ bridge with positions 2 and 4 neck/middle and bridge/middle so I had sort of a Tele/Strat. It was a very useful gigging workhorse. I was playing in a blues band at the time. I traded it for a Music Man Silhouette hard tail and never looked back. I would love to have a G6122TFM but hey I do have a Guild Starfire IV in the closet. It's pretty much a gigging relic. All beat up with most of the finish played off the back of the neck. A pair of those JE Tron pickups would be an interesting update. It already has the Guild "baby bucker" rout so maybe the mounting rings will work.
Late to the party, but this is great! Been wanting to similarly mod my tele for a while now, this might be my motivation.
Awesome sounds - I love me some Filtertrons in almost any guitar. And 11:45 was great: Play it like you mean it! :D
Sounds a lot like David Gilmour in the beginning
Informative as always. Im loving the tele, but find the Bigsby made the guitar too cluttered but it does serve its purpose. Thanks to Darrel for the post. A 👍 as usual!
Was that a retcom when stringing the Low E? Looks like it was wound Clockwise then cut to it being CCW. Great video though, I've gone through an underwound Fralin PAF and Unbucker and currently a Bluesbucker. They're all great pickups, I use the PAF in a Les Paul and the bridge pickup on a 335 with the Unbucker in the neck. The Bluesbuckers I've installed in some SSH Strats, but I was excited about any of them in the Tele. I did a setup on a guys Tele with a TV Jones in the neck and found it to be perfect. The overall tone really does straddle the line between a Single coil and humbucker and the output really balances well with the single coil bridge.
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Great results man ! Did you buy the body and the neck separately?
Thanks!
Yes, I did the original build before a had a channel though.
@@DarrellBraunGuitar ahh! Do you recall where or what the body was that you bought? Very cool body as is the whole guitar!!
Nice pickups! They really are basically hum-canceled single coils. Really cool. As usual : )
Really happy to see this vid. I've been thinking of building a very similar guitar (without the Bigsby). Any idea how the JBEs compare to the TV Jones Filtertrons?
Glad to help!
I think I'll have to compare it up against my Gretsch. I'm guesssing they will be very similar to the TV Jones Classics.
Love the sound! I always liked this guitar, but it's so nice with the new pickups. Cheers!
Nice playing. Does the mountingsscrews go directly into the body, and what do you have underneath to push the pickups up?
Yes, how does it work? Did you get the answer?
Hey Darrell! Just send me that little ol tele girl and I'll be 😁 Happy! It sounds absolutely marvelous Brother
😄Thanks Dana!
My inspired by "Darrell Braun" Telecaster Thinline is ready to play since yesterday. Waited for the chinese pickguard for a month, but it was worth it.
Those JBE Trons are just amazing played both through the Helix and a custom tube amp.
Thanks again for your inspiration Darrell.
Anybody know if the JB neck Tron will fill it in a Squier Contemporary Tele RH? Longshot asking that here after all this time, but I thought I'd give it a shot.
Both pickups clean sounded just like the Doobie Brothers first four studio albums from the 1970s! Don't you agree Darrell?
Awesome Darrell!
Very nice. Did you use the stock pots 250k vol/tone?
Thanks!
Yes :)
Great build Darrell, I was thinking about putting some filtertrons on my T-60 so this was a very helpful vid.
Glad to help!
It DOES sound like a middleground between single coil and......... double coil.
Single coils are good for certain things... So are humbuckers... But the filtertron? Meh it's good for everything basically and you know it lol.
I've been wanting to do a telecaster build like this. I want to take a telecaster deluxe and add filtertrons and a bigsby. I really like the idea of black on black with a maple fretboard on it. It isn't in the budget anytime soon but it's still something I want to do eventually! It sounds really cool. I really like the gretsch pro jets as well which have a similar vibe. I tend to like the shape of fender neck shapes a little bit better though.
Nice project! 95% of the great tone you're getting from both, the Tele and the LP, is specifically because of the JBE pickups as such (not to mention your great playing style :)) It's not so much "Filtertron" as it is the JBE sound.
I wish I knew of the capo trick when I had my Cabronita with a Bigsby.... I hated changing the strings so much on it, plus it wasn't the best to stay in tune. One day I was offered a reasonable price for it and got rid of it, sort of regret it, doubt I'll ever own a guitar with a twang bar on it again.... Sigh
But love the conversion, have you done a Tele with P90's...? considering doing that to this Squire Tele I have, might sound really nice..
Thanks for the vid!
Darrell, great video, great build!! I am not sure if I missed this info, but what is the wood of your thinline body, ash? Do you have a particular feeling about wood types for this project? I have an old noname thinline mahog body that I would like to try your mod on, but would love to hear your opinion on woods for this project, and especially because Teles can get quite bright tonally at times I think. Thank You for your awesome channel and the great work you do!! Don't mean to sound like a keener, eh!?, Bill
I have had TV Jones Classics, (soapbar mount), in my thinline, including a Bigsby, for several years. It's in distressed seafoam green, cream 'guard & a reverse all maple Reverend neck.
I know that brass barrel bridge look original or vitage, but if you use a Bigsby trem, Always use a roller bridge . I never, ever, have tuning problems with all my guitars with Bigsby .Les paul, Tele and a 5120
Hi. At 4.52 and 5.05 you skipped over the installation of the pick ups - which was what I was watching this video for. How do these pick ups fit in? Screw straight into the body? How do you adjust the height?
Sounds great!
How do you go about intonation adjustment with the barrel screws angled and so close to the body?
It doesn't look like there's enough room for a screwdriver/allen key to be able to reach the heads :)
He glossed over the step where the pickups get attached to the guitar body, which is what I'm looking for. Everything else seemed rather obvious, tbh. But I guess this is more of a pickup demo video than a how-to video...??
WAIT A SEC. You bought that body from me, back in 2015. I knew it looked familiar!
No way!!
Are you the guy who ran Maverick Guitars?
Yep, that was me. The webpage no longer exists except for a Reverb page. Anyhow, I fired up the old Maverick email again and shot you an email.
That's so awesome!
I didn't recieve an email from you, but my business email is "darrellbraun at shaw dot ca"
Great vid! Are the pick ups screwed in some way to the body? I think I missed that part of the process. Also, can you share the link to buy the bridge plate? That would be awesome!
The Bridge Clean sounds like an awesome Spaghetti Western machine.
I can't find the episode you got the thinline body from. I'm looking for a budget classic 70s thinline body for my first partscaster build
Surf Green, Filtertrons, and a Bigsby? Well, of course.
Nice work. It's very cool that you do the work yourself. While not a fan of "relic'd" guitars, the Filtertrons just finish the look. It doesn't hurt that it also sounds good.
Where can I find the vintage(4 screw) filtertron sized tele bridge plate? I didn’t see in the comments and it’s exactly what I’ve been looking for!
I love your videos, this one is no exception. But do Canadians day Filta instead of Filter? Because you keep saying Filt-a-tron...
Why are normal speech patterns not good enough for a video? Editing them out is uncomfortable to listen to. It taxes the brain! There is surely little gain in doing this.- as it displaces natural relaxed focus on the content. Please don't do it!
The tele with 3 piece bridge is already difficult to intone, added the Bixby tram would make it more difficult to tune and remain in tune. If anyone wanted a tram, play a strat.
I was wondering, why wind the thick E string to the tuning post from the outside. And presto, in the next cut, they were all wound from the inside of the posts.
Hi Darrell did u shim ur neck to make way for the bigsby? Also how long did it take to notch the ashtray bridge to make way for the strings?
How do you all think the jbe tron pickups sound compared to real filtertrons?
Do you think these pickups will be good for worship in a Chris Shiflett 72 Tele Deluxe?
last time i restrung my bigsby, i somehow didn't
find it hard at all. now you've got me nervous and thinking i should make my kid do it
Hola, se que es un vídeo antiguo, pero dónde consigo un puente de ese tipo (humbucker) para mí telecastet ?
Where did you find that pickguard?????? I am modding a thinline kit and am looking to show off my stain finish
Wouldn+t a tone o matic type of bridge be a better solution? even if you need to make some holes to install it?
Not seen this video before but has always been mt favourite guitar on the bacj wall. Lovely.
At approximately 7:00 in the video you show how to connect the low E string to the tuner. The video shows you winding the string the wrong way on the tuner post.
where you got those bridge with filtertron size hole? Please
Great smoothness with clarity. I think those are Supertrons-not Filtertrons. I gotta do this.
This is superb Darren. I’m not a big fan of teles, but it’s added bite to the filtertrons. Awesome combination!
Would it be dumb to only replace the neck pickup with a filtertron and a leave a single coil in the bridge?
Those look more like Supertrons rather than Filtertrons. Bar pole pieces rather than screw pole pieces.
Where did you find that bridge? I've been looking for one like that for months.
The ultimate surf guitar
Real filtertrons aren't that expensive. I imagine they are also cheaper inthe US than in europe.
Sounds bad ass! great showing of the mod too... Thanks!
Would you please share where you got that bridge for this mod? Thanks
Did you put springs or foam under f'trons? How do you adjust height?
I’ve officially been inspired to do this to a G&Al Bluesboy
Great tone. They should have called them the Hi-Fi pickup.
Looks amazing! Please share where you got the pick guard.
Wow you route your bridge cavity? How much it cost to do that to a luthier? Or you did it yourself?
do you have a recommendation for a tele bridge that fits filtertron?
why don't you get a vibrate string spoiler? makes restringing a lot more easier
If you have a top loader bridge would you still need to notch it for a bigsby?
What a beautiful Telecaster you got there. Nice conversion, the new pups sound outstanding. The tone "seems" to be somewhere between hot wound single coils and PAFs, but I could be wrong.
Thanks Anthony!
Yes, it is a nice "in between" sound. I love that they are almost totally silent too - which is great for playing with more gain 😁
could this be done with p-90 pickups? with the bigsby and all
I didn't like the bridge nearly as much as the neck, ESPECIALLY the clean bridge, and the high gain was WAY better than dirty bridge. I have to say, though, the absolute STAR of this show is that sex on a wood-slab sound that is the neck pickup on this setup, good LORD.
I wonder if shunting the bridge pickup further forward, somewhere like the 36th fret position would help it out.
Eh, changed my mind. Bridge sounds fine. Good, even.
A tele and filtertrons are great but,,,,, turn it up and it,s pure rock and roll!!!
This is my dream guitar but i'd just want it in all white, with a white pickguard
How did he screw down the Filtertrons onto the body? That was not covered in any detail.