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https://www.mojopickups.co.uk/product/mojotron-p90-sized/
Tone wise these are totally different pickups. Others will be able to advise better but I always feel Filtertrons are almost like a paf but with less mud and more jangle and note for note clarity. A good p90 neck pickup is a delight though, fat, warm and still articulate, almost the ultimate single coil.
You maybe want to try a mix of pickups?
You can get Filtertrons in body mount P90 style, or with wings for hanging from surrounds humbucker style.
Screwed direct to the body they can look a little small on their own but you can get bezels to sit around them.
Sound-wise Filtertrons have rich harmonics, a sweetness to them. Bottom end isn't as bold and defined as a P90, and the mid spread isn't the same. Filters have a clear top end. And of course hum-cancelling.
In the neck, the bottom strings on Filtertrons can be a bit indistinct where the top ones are still clear & chimey. A popular boost in Gretsch-land sucks out some of the low mids & bottom end and sorts that out.
The trad wind is low resistance but the fat magnet makes up quite a bit. Then you have the next hotter, TVJ Classic+ type around 8k (more mids, still very sweet top end), and from there the hotter the winds get, the more towards PAF territory.
Gretsch did ceramic ones too, good in their own way, sound quite different to the trad type alnico.
Filtertron- Les Paul meets tele
I prefer Filtertrons personally.
Indeed. Vastly different tonality, depending on how you amplify them.
Just to confuse matters, manufacturers now offer both designs in anything from near-as-humanly-possible vintage spec through to increasing degrees of "hot". As 'Trons get hotter, they become increasingly P.A.F. like. Hot P90s turn into Tony Iommi.
Is the neck glued-in or screwed on?
'Trons are great on "F" style guitars. They cancel hum whilst retaining much of the airiness and twang. P90s, by comparison, tend to sound noticeably darker. I'm not certain that three of either is a good idea.
Just to add to the confusion, the Gibson Firebird and Deluxe mini humbucker can also be persuaded into P90-sized routs - albeit with an adapter ring.
The only real answer is for the OP to try a few Filter'Tron-equiped guitars.
An example of Tele with filtertrons
and with P90s
Listen through decent headphones to hear the clear differences.
And here is a link to the TV Jones soapbar filtertron, available in traditional black and cream.
https://store.tvjones.com/tv-classic-soapbar-mount-p123.aspx
Plenty of options there![;) ;)](/plugins/EmojiExtender/emoji/fb/3.gif)
I expected it to be fairly similar to the LP Jr I used to have. It's not. It's more jangly clean and snappy with dirt.
The jr was creamier clean & snarlier with gain. (Terrible description I know).
A lot of this could be due to the LP being mahogany & the Cabronita being poplar & maple, plus scale & bridge differences too...
The agony of choice