Guitar Interactive – Issue 66 2019

(^94) Guitar Interactive Issue 66
Fishman Fluence Open Core Classic Humbucker Pickups
This Fishman Fluence Classic Humbucker Open Core Pickup Set is a great sonic upgrade for your guitar. Unlike most wire-wound pickups, Fluence
pickups manage to deliver the classic humbucker sound — without noise or inductance issues. This pickup offers three distinctly different voices — a clear,
vintage-sounding PAF humbucker, a muscular, hot-rodded humbucker, and a vintage-style single-coil tone. Here’s Nick Jennison with the full rundown.
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Fishman (the “Fishman” in Fishman) has been innovating in the pickup
world for a long time now, but it’s only fairly recently that Fishman has
entered the murky realm of electric guitar pickups. Launched in 2014, their “Fluence” range
of multi-voice pickups represent an entirely new way of building the humble electric guitar
pickup.
Made using stacked printed circuit boards in lieu of the traditional method of wire wrapped
around a “bobbin”, Fluence pickups offer a number of distinct advantages over more typical
designs. Firstly, they’re incredibly consistent, so two of the same model should sound nearly
Fishman Fluence Open Core Classic Humbucker Pickups
LARRY