Filtertrons in a Casino?

DarnWeight

Anyone tried this?  I see a few dog ear Filtertron options out there now, and I'm intrigued. 

I have an Ibanez ASR70 (their Artcore take on the Casino/330) that I really dig, but if it has one weakness, it's probably the stock pickups...they're really not bad by any means, but they could definitely be a touch clearer/snappier.  I have Filtertrons in a few other guitars, like them a lot, and on paper they'd be a good fit in a Casino...pushing it into hollow-body Gretsch territory.

Winny_Pooh

As long as the guitar/stock pickups have enough low end already then filtertrons would be great. 

Creed_Clicks

I’d love to see Ibanez reissue that guitar 

Funkfingers

Dyna-Sonic clones could work well. The problem would be disguising the mounting screw holes for the stock dogear covers.

TV Jones does ‘Trons in dogear covers.

earwighoney

DarnWeight said:

Anyone tried this?  I see a few dog ear Filtertron options out there now, and I'm intrigued. 

I have an Ibanez ASR70 (their Artcore take on the Casino/330) that I really dig, but if it has one weakness, it's probably the stock pickups...they're really not bad by any means, but they could definitely be a touch clearer/snappier.  I have Filtertrons in a few other guitars, like them a lot, and on paper they'd be a good fit in a Casino...pushing it into hollow-body Gretsch territory.

Not a million miles away but the Chris Cornell signature model 335, has Lollar Filtertrons. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gMVb1-cYBc

Henrytwang

I put a couple of Gretsch Filtertrons in an Epiphone Casino once. It required a bit of ingenuity and some custom made pickup rings but it worked fine, sounded very much like a Gretsch hollow body.

DarnWeight

Henrytwang said:

I put a couple of Gretsch Filtertrons in an Epiphone Casino once. It required a bit of ingenuity and some custom made pickup rings but it worked fine, sounded very much like a Gretsch hollow body.

Excellent, nice to hear it's both do-able and good-sounding.  Very tempted by a set of these if I can free up some funds...

https://www.mojopickups.co.uk/product/mojotron-p90-sized-dogear/

...either that, or a pair of TVJ dog ear mounts and some HS Filtertrons.