View unanswered posts | View active topics It is currently Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:27 am



Reply to topic  [ 3 posts ] 
Fishman Fluence pickups 
Author Message
Pendulous
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:17 pm
Posts: 7984
Location: Fung lung chung
Post Fishman Fluence pickups
Intredasting.

http://fluence.fishman.com/

Their promotional talk didn't satisfy all of my curiosities, but I dug this up:

Quote:
Fishman stresses that its Fluence pickups aren't about messing with the great tone of vintage favorites, but changing the way pickups are made. At the heart of the new pickups is the Fluence Core – two 48-layer boards, each interconnected layer packing printed mini coils and a spacer inbetween. True Multi-Voice electronics allows for the creation of the kind of classic colors and timbres you've come to expect from great guitar pickups, but without any of the annoying problems.

Each Fluence pickup can be wired up to toggle between different voices via a push/pull pot, or set to a favorite. Players can select a hum-free vintage 50 single coil tone, for example, and then switch to a fat, overwound Texas Strat sound, but without sacrificing any high end presence. The instrument's volume knob can be rolled back, and guitarists can still look forward to the same high end response and fidelity they'd get at full whack.

The Fluence pickups are initially being offered in three varieties, and in a choice of finishes. More variations will follow later in the year. There's a single width version suitable for Strat-like guitars, and sporting Alnico IV rod magnets. A classic humbucker model comes in neck and bridge configurations, both making use of an Alnico V bar magnet with poles. The former offers vintage PAF or the exclusive Fluence "clear, airy chime" tone, while the latter comes with a calibrated vintage PAF or Hotrod bridge voice.

Modern humbuckers come in Alnico or Ceramic flavors and can be mounted in either neck or bridge positions. One uses an Alnico V bar magnet with blades and offers active metal and crisp, clean voices. The other boasts a Ceramic VIII bar magnet circuit with blades and active metal and organic, high output passive attack voices.

_________________
Member of the Radium Water Gentlemen's League Of Luxury.

http://nachtmuse.bandcamp.com/
http://vesication.bandcamp.com/
https://divideconquer.bandcamp.com/
(I also play in a band called Human Compost but our bandcamp is banned)


Wed Jan 07, 2015 1:19 pm
Profile
Best Supporting Actress
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jul 08, 2010 6:13 pm
Posts: 6423
Location: Trendyhipstertonville
Post Re: Fishman Fluence pickups
I also was curious about them. IME with their stuff, the pickups will probably sound good but not work quite as advertised. My guess js they behave similarly to having an active eq or preamp in yojr guitar. You can switch sounds quickly enough but you'll probably be the only one to really notice.

_________________
Dinosaurier live vor langer Zeit
Sie waren schrecklichen Echsen weißt du nicht,
Einige aßen Pflanzen und einigen Fleisch gegessen
Einige aßen Fisch und einige aßen Tiere


Sun Jan 11, 2015 10:56 am
Profile WWW
Winston Wolf
User avatar

Joined: Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:10 am
Posts: 7283
Location: in the valley of the shadow of death
Post Re: Fishman Fluence pickups
that stands to reason. People can't tell the difference between a strat in a Fender twin and a Les Paul into a JCM800....

_________________
Member of the Radium Water Gentlemen's League Of Luxury


Mon Jan 12, 2015 9:10 am
Profile
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Reply to topic   [ 3 posts ] 

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
cron
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group.
Designed by STSoftware.