Re: Can anyone answer this Fishman Fluence Question?
A customer support staff member has replied to your support request, #831554 with the following response:
Hi,
I asked our engineer to explain a little better. below is his response.
When we refer to coil tapping on the Fluence humbuckers, means using one coil at a time versus both. There's no partial tapping into any one coil. Since the preamp determines the resonant voice, partially tapping the coils in humbucking mode would only decrease the output but not affect the tone.
The way we think about it, two coils are permanently wired in series so they can't be split, but you can tap off the signal at different points. When using just one coil on most Fluence humbuckers, there is the usual drop in output and tonal change from the magnetic view of the strings being from one side, however the resonant frequency will not change. With passive pickups, the resonance shifts upward around 40% in frequency when coil tapped.
If achieving a true single coil voice is important, the Fluence Devin Townsend humbuckers have an electronically controlled coil tap feature that also shapes the tone to provide an accurate single coil sound. It's like going from a guitar with active pickups voiced for heavy metal, to a telecaster at the flick of a switch.
