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Joel Stroetzel Interview on Fishman Fluence Pickups

Joel Stroetzel Interview on Fishman Fluence Pickups

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Description

Fishman has been at the forefront of acoustic transducer development and improvement for a long time. With the Fluence Series, they have brought that spirit of innovation to their latest line of electric guitar pickups. The electric guitar pickup has been wound since 1934, but Fishman decided to explore unwound pickups and has perfected them in this innovative pickup line.

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. This is the Fluence Signature Series Killswitch Engage 6-string pickup set, which packs tremendous versatility into a single set of pickups.

Voice 1 begins with Fishman’s Modern recipe, but Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz prefer a tighter bass for more note definition and screaming midrange and harmonics. In the bridge, Voice 2 contains a unique vintage/medium output hybrid passive tone, equally great for cleans, crunch and searing leads, while the neck produces a crystal clean, fluid voice. In addition, there are unique single coil voices for each pickup, to nail the perfect modern active “hot” coil split, and vintage passive true single coil tones.
Fishman Fluence Signature Series Killswitch Engage 6-String Pickup Set Black
Fishman Fluence Signature Series Killswitch Engage 6-String Pickup Set Black

Features

Killswitch Engage Signature Pickup Set Includes:
  • 1 ceramic pickup (bridge position), 1 alnico pickup (neck or middle position)
  • All components required to achieve Stroetzel & Dutkiewicz’s wiring scheme (minus pickup selector)
  • Volume and Tone pots
  • Push-pull Voice Selector pot for use in Volume or Tone position
  • All wiring required for installation
Alnico Neck Pickup Specs
  • Peak Frequency: Voice 1: 670Hz Voice 2: 2.4kHz
  • Voice 3: (Single Coil) 3.5kHz
  • Magnetic Material: Alnico V
  • Magnetic Circuit: Bar Magnets With Blades
  • Gauss Strength: 120 Gauss Strength at String
  • Output Impedance: 2k
  • Current Draw: 2ma
  • Battery Life: 110 Hours as a Set
Ceramic Bridge Pickup Specs
  • Peak Frequency:
  • Voice 1: 700Hz Voice 2: 1.6kHz
  • Voice 3: (Single Coil) 3.5kHz
  • Magnetic Material: Ceramic Viii
  • Magnetic Circuit: Bar Magnets With Blades
  • Gauss Strength: 145 Gauss Strength at String
  • Output Impedance: 2k
  • Current Draw: 2.5ma

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Reviewed by 3 customers

  • Worst company and active pickups

    1

    submitteda year ago

    byRichard

    fromTampa Florida

    Don't buy from fishman any of their products!! I bought this pickups and the push/pull pots were bad out the box and cheap garbage!! I contacted fishman and sent them all documents required for warranty and haven't heard anything back in 2 weeks!! Derek the customer service manager is trash and doesn't respond at ALL!! My guitar sounds like crap from the pots and fishman won't do anything about it!!! Buy EMG all their pickups are voiced after EMG and passive pickups, all your favorite artist and tones came from the OGs. Over $400 for pickups and battery and nothing good has come from it!! Don't fall into the trap of names being put on products to get you to buy, I encourage all guitar players to stay away from fishman and their trash products and customer service and warranty. Everyone who works in every department at fishman is trash and either isn't helpful or willing to do anything to all out no response!! Fishman and Derek you guys suck and I will never buy your products again!!

  • Sound like EMG pickups

    3

    submitted4 years ago

    bySteffen

    fromFlorida

    Very disappointed but I knew better. These sound like EMG81 pickups. They are not my thing. I love Killswitch engage and had high hopes but those awesome clean tones are post production for sure. High they do great but like I said you'll sound the same with EMG81/85 pickups. Just my opinion. Other guitars I own that I play daily to get an idea of the sound I go for. Tom Anderson Drop Top with factory passive pickups(blow these fishmans out of the water) 1969 Les Paul Custom Shop factory Gibson pickups ESP Viper Camo(had EMG81s that now has these fishmans) Dean ML Slime factory dimebucker

  • Fishman pickups

    5

    Verified Buyer

    submitted4 years ago

    byStewart

    fromSan Antonio

    Sweet sounding but with crushing gain if necessary

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  • submitted3 years ago

    asked byhardcore

    frompueblo colorado

    do you have the bridge pick up used

    Open Reply - Thomas
    Not at the moment, I'm sorry.

  • submitted6 years ago

    asked byAlex

    fromFayetteville, North Carolina

    Do these pick ups come with two volume and two tone pots to install in a les paul style guitar?

    Open Reply - Thomas
    No, you would need to use your existing pots.