Gretsch Pickups // Super HiLoTRON // Single Coil & Humbucker

HiLo’Tron Electric Guitar Pickups Feature Full Hi-Fidelity, Brilliant Highs, Mellow Lows and Extra Lively Response.

Single-coil HiLoTron pickups were introduced in 1958 and used on various Gretsch models through about 1980. 

Basically, HiLo’Trons were single-coil versions of the more prevalent Filter’Trons, without as much output. Relatively few Gretsch models were equipped with them, but that’s not to say that there weren’t notable examples in high-profile use – George Harrison carried the HiLo’Tron banner through the mid-1960s with his Tennessean sound, and the pickup was used on many Gretsch guitars through the ’80s.

Today, only a small number of current Gretsch guitar models are equipped with HiLo’Tron pickups; these are designated by an “HT” in the model name and include the G6119-1962HT Chet Atkins Tennessee Rose™ and the G6117T-HT Anniversary™.