I don't get the hype with Fishman Fluence

[couverdure]

Honestly, it is sooo easy to bait metal guitarists into a product such as this. Hear this keyword:

"Versatility"

Most metal dudes' idea of versatility is heavily saturated high-gain tone and almost DI-like clean tone.

Nothing wrong with them but if I want to have an all-rounder, I would go with medium-output passive pickups because I also play music that doesn't use outrageous amounts of gain and drop tunings.

The Duncan JB is used in almost everything that has an electric guitar, and I'm considering the 59/Custom Hybrid which has a much lower output and all the demos of it I've heard sound great including high-gain ones.

 

[Sermo Lupi]

I love how people throw the word "consistency", as if the tolerance between two identical pickups from other manufacturers was like 30% or something

Usually those criticisms were about actives making different guitars sound too similar, or making one guitar sound too 'consistent' in the sense of 'sterile'. The amount of studio use actives got from their outset should've nipped most of those criticisms in the bud, but here we are.

Their artist roster page isn't up to date. Stephen Carpenter is still there despite being a Fishman artist for about a decade now.

But as long as Metallica is in their roster, they'll always make a ton of money. Someone tell Kirk about Fishman Fluences though .
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Maybe if someone wired Hammett's EMGs backwards, he'd pay half a million for those, too?

 

[trem licking]

They require a battery soooo... Definitely overhyped

 

[Big Dumb Bitch]

I think the Fishman tele pickups are good :3

I don't like the humbuckers tho. The mids have been weird on all the ones I've played and it doesn't sound good to me

 

[lattjeful]

I think the Fishman tele pickups are good :3

I don't like the humbuckers tho. The mids have been weird on all the ones I've played and it doesn't sound good to me

I was gonna say, I think the non-humbucker variants of the Fishmans are farrrr more valuable. Having a few noiseless flavors of Strat, Tele. and P90 pickups sounds cool.

 

[Emperoff]

Most metal dudes' idea of versatility is heavily saturated high-gain tone and almost DI-like clean tone.

Nothing wrong with them but if I want to have an all-rounder, I would go with medium-output passive pickups because I also play music that doesn't use outrageous amounts of gain and drop tunings.

The Duncan JB is used in almost everything that has an electric guitar, and I'm considering the 59/Custom Hybrid which has a much lower output and all the demos of it I've heard sound great including high-gain ones.

The Duncan JB is a classic for a reason. It just sounds good for anything (even its cleans are good for a bridge position). For modern standards is probably *a bit* too hot (specially the 7-string version), but I think most so called "medium hot" are a lot weaker than a JB anyway. I've never considered it that hot compared to say, EMG/Fishmans, SD Invaders, Dimarzio X2N, BKP Juggs/Warpigs, etc.

Also, the JB pairs wonderfully with the SD Jazz neck (which to me still is one of the best neck pickups ever), and the center pickup is godlike for midgain crunch tones. Very strat-ish.