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Fine-Tuning The Filter’Tron

Ever since plugging in Brian Setzer’s Gretsch 6120, Tom Jones has been smitten with the sound of Filter’Trons: “I worked on Brian Setzer’s guitars from 1993,” says Tom. “Brian’s guitar tech [Rich Modica] would bring them in to the shop I worked at in Long Beach, California, and so I got to plug them in. The first time I plugged in the Gretsch 6120 that [Brian] used in the late

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