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Multi-Voice Pickups For Electric Guitars Multi-Voice Pickups For Electric Guitars Un-wind. The electric guitar pickup has been wound since 1934. SINGLE WIDTH FOR STRAT® 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 CLASSIC HUMBUCKER 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. Fishman Fluence. Everything You Hear Is TrueTM. MODERN HUMBUCKER Multi-Voice Pickups For Electric Guitars 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 Un-wind.At Fishman, we merge the Technology and Art of Performance. So whether it’s our pickup systems The tones of the great classic and aftermarket pickups are for acoustic guitars, Solo PA systems, Triple Play The electric guitarMIDI pickup guitar system, has been amplifiers wound and sincemore… 1934. you can the benchmarks by which all other® pickups are judged. SINGLE WIDTH FOR STRAT depend on us to cut out the “voodoo” and get 80 years later, we’ve unwound it. Original and totally These tones and timbres are not negotiable; they are the to the true source of great tone. sound of electric guitars. Period. re-imagined, Fishman Fluence pickups are free from the Our Fluence lab is outfitted with sophisticated hum, noise and frustrating inductance issues that plague equipment, some of which we built ourselves RULE 2 even the most covetedspecifically wire-wound for our unique pickups research — needs. revealing But the real testing occurred in the “real world” lab that was pure, uncorruptedFLUENCE and musical tone. With Rule 1 firmly established, we listed the design createdMulti-Voice when we handedPickups the Fluence-equippedfor Electric Guitar guitars over to players like you. Back and forth, the shortcomings of classic pickups and set about to fix them: refinements continued until it was smiles all around… Historically, pickup “recipes” have been fraught with n Fluence pickups are true Multi-Voice. 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