Gretsch G6120T Brian Setzer Signature Nashville '59 "Smoke" - Smoke Orange

Pickups from a legend to a legend

The pickup duo in the G6120T Nashville '59 have a story that is truly legendary. Filter'Tron pickups were invented by Ray Butts in 1957 as the first noise-canceling humbuckers. Ray actually called these pickups "Ful-Fidelity" in his personal journals. These pickups would go on to change the world as they were used by numerous legendary rockabilly and rock-n-roll icons like Scotty Moore and Chet Atkins.

The TV Jones Ray Butts Ful-Fidelity pickups in the G6120T are the result of an intensely meticulous collaboration between TV Jones and Katha House, daughter of Ray Butts. Ms. House found her father's technical journals over a decade ago that contained his detailed notes on the design and engineering of the original Ful-Fidelity pickup. In 2008, at a Chet Atkins convention, she and Thomas Jones met and discussed plans to bring these original pickups back and bring them back as faithfully as possible. The result is a tone that has a tighter bass response and slightly more top-end EQ than a TV Classic. For Setzer and others like rockabilly stalwart Chris Cosello, these Ful-Fidelity pickups deliver a sparkle and dynamic range that conjure the sound of rockabilly's earliest days, letting current guitarists the opportunity to tap the past as well as forge ahead. As Jones told Premier Guitar recently, "This is the most original and authentic re-issue of a Filter’Tron guitar pickup to date. Period." We know once you have tried them out, you will agree!