Fishman announces their 7 string Humbucker at this year’s NAMM Show.
The electric guitar pickup has been wound since 1934. 80 years later, we’ve unwound it. Original and totally re-imagined, Fishman Fluence pickups are free from the hum, noise and frustrating inductance issues that plague even the most coveted wire-wound pickups—revealing pure, uncorrupted and musical tone.
Historically, pickup “recipes” have been fraught with compromises, a balancing act of design concessions in an effort to combine our favorite elements without giving up too much. However, even after almost a century of refinement, most of us can still think of something we’d like to tweak on our current favorites.
Each Fishman Fluence pickup has two distinct and useful sounds on-board. These sounds start with the revolutionary Fluence Core, the heart of Fluence tone. From this Fluence Core we then create the classic timbres and tone—colors you expect from great guitar pickups—as well as some you’ve never expected.
All Fishman Fluence Electric Guitar Pickups…
- Are Multi-Voice. Set and forget, or wire-up to toggle between two musically complimentary voices.
- Drop right in. Replaces standard humbucking and single coil pickups.
- Are rechargeable on your guitar. Optional lithium-ion battery pack offers weeks, not hours, of playing time.*
Fishman Fluence pickups are the first real re-imagining of electric guitar pickups in over 80 years. Before we embarked on the Fluence journey, our team established some important ground rules:
| RULE 1 | The tones of the great classic and aftermarket pickups are the benchmarks by which all other pickups are judged. These tones and timbres are not negotiable; they are the sound of electric guitars. Period. |
| RULE 2 | With Rule 1 firmly established, we listed the design shortcomings of classic pickups and set about to fix them:
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