Artec

Artec Filtertron Style Humbucker Alnico V Pickups for Gretsch

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Fantastic Vintage 50's sound at a great price
Another great pickup from our friends at Artec. A really authentic 1950's sound courtesy of the Alnico V magnets.

A great replacement solution for many Gretsch models, or any vintage guitar project.

Features

  • Double vacuum wax potted to elimenate feedback and buzz
  • Authentic '50s sound
  • Totally tappable 5 conductor wiring
  • 50mm pole spacing on both neck & bridge pickup
  • 5-conductor wiring allows for split and phase options:
  • Green - Live
  • Red & White - split
  • Black & Chrome - Earth

Output

  • Neck Pickup - 5.9K Alnico V magnets
  • Bridge Pickup - 5.9K Alnico V magnets


DC Resistance neck: 5.9 KΩ
DC Resistance bridge: 5.9 KΩ

Alnico V magnets
4 Conductor Wires for Coil Splitting
Active: No





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Micky
Delighted with these pickups

NWGuitars service very good and so are these pickups. They're good quality and come with adapter rings so you can mount them where full size humbuckers used to go. No idea how close they are to genuine Filtertrons but they give a real 50s vibe especially bridge and neck mixed and coil split. I'll buy Artec again.

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Paul gisborne
look great and sound fantastic thankyou.

arrived on time, well packaged,

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B Lambert
Watkins Rapier 22 regeneration

Ordering items from NWG has always been strait forward and items well packed , arriving in good time,top marks .
The Artec Filtertrons have been fitted to a home build of different parts, Watkins Rapier 24” scale neck fitted to an strat style body (25 3/4”)from Brandoni guitars Wembley. A lot of “ fettling” was needed to get the Filatrons to fit. The pickups were replacing old Watkins humbuckers,which had a 60s sound.
These pick-ups are very much louder, and have, as near a sound as the old Watkins. Very Gretch like. For the price they are good pick ups. Have played out with other guys and my guitar sound can be heard different from the other well know makes. As they said in Filtertron sales discription, a 50s/60s sound. :-)

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george henderson
Gretsch rebuild

Having searched for a few days i was very pleased with the service and the product i received from northwest guitars

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Richard Appleby
Great sound from these pickups

Fitted these into an re 335 copy. I was amazed how loud they were. I had to lower them quiet a bit to get a great clean sound even then backing off the volume helped which allows for a boost straight off the guitar! Thoroughly recommend