Couple Fluence questions for Falbo

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Which battery pack should I order for my PRS?

Is the classic humbucker genuinely comparable to PAF repros from today's boutique companies or are there trade offs?
 
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I have to ask...
With all the real pickups available in the market place, what can't you find that has you looking at an artificial one ?

It simply don't see the point behind those, they're a solution looking for a non existent problem.
 
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Fishman has one that attaches to the plastic cover of the pot cavity for Gibsons, maybe one of those will work.
 
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wolf5150 said:
I have to ask...
With all the real pickups available in the market place, what can't you find that has you looking at an artificial one ?

It simply don't see the point behind those, they're a solution looking for a non existent problem.
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Have you played a set of the pickups?
 
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What is artificial about the Fishmans?

Its a new technology. I own a set, sounds great!
 
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What is artificial about the Fishmans?
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From what I understand of their design, the natural EQ curve of the pickups is flat, and the vintage pickup voicing is achieved through artifice, like a fixed parametric EQ, where as a passive pickup gets it's EQ curve from the combination of the peak resonance inherent to the coil, the magnet strength, and the geometry of the magnetic field. This is why the Fluence can have two (or more) voicings.
 
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Drex -

Wasn't asking you - was asking Wolf5150 why he thought this solution was artificial.
 
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Oh come on... You knew exactly who I was asking.

Let me put it to you this way... Sorry if I'm too blunt, but if I ask a question I do NOT want to hear an answer from you...

Plain enough?
 
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LReese said:
Oh come on... You knew exactly who I was asking.

Let me put it to you this way... Sorry if I'm too blunt, but if I ask a question I do NOT want to hear an answer from you...

Plain enough?
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Maybe you should have sent him a private message if you weren't interested in hearing from other members.

It sounds like you're not really all that interested in know what aspects of the Fishman Fluence might be considered artificial, though.
 
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We are actually interested in hearing from people who have played the pickups. We are all capable of reading various opinions off the internet.
 
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That is what I asked him above. For the record there is nothing artificial sound about the pickups. They are super warm, at least the alinco are I have not played the ceramic. The response is fast the tone is clear and they are very musical sounding pickups. I get sick of people around here bashing gear they have never played or even seen. I am willing to bet 50% of the blues lawyers on this site that bash gear have never even played anything outside of their own rigs.
 
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I'm willing to buy one to try, I bet it would be a great starting point to go with my digital amp rig. The noiseless operation is highly appealing.
 
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I can't wait to get a set been dying to have them since I was let in on them when they were still in testing.Will be a few months but you can bet there is a 99% chance I am going to like them very much.
 
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I am absolutely NOT interested in trying them.
The entire concept is a waste of time and money.
The electric guitar is a musical instrument, a living thing.
Even EMG pickups are at their core, real pickups developed at a time when venues were so poorly wired, noise was a major hindrance..a solution to a real problem....these are not, they're tone generation is entirely artificially produced.


I stand by my statement that they're a solution looking for a problem.
 
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A pickup winder is a true artist, the reason forum members have attributed MJ with an almost mystical aura.
Skilled on so many levels and that's why the market is so full of amazing but different models.
There are mass producers and real artisans practicing a true artform.

This guy comes along and attempts to artificially copy their work.
I dislike the very concept of them.
 
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Nobody will argue that MJ is not an artist. And that's partiality the point of these. They address manufacturing consistency.


Also, both pickups and peoples tones have been copied for decades, nothing new there.
 
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wolf5150 said:
A pickup winder is a true artist, the reason forum members have attributed MJ with an almost mystical aura.
Skilled on so many levels and that's why the market is so full of amazing but different models.
There are mass producers and real artisans practicing a true artform.

This guy comes along and attempts to artificially copy their work.
I dislike the very concept of them.
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Fishman also has their "MJ" I stood behind her (and her daughter) as these pickups were made by hand in the good ole USA. If you haven't heard the pickups why comment on them? Every post you have made in this thread is moot.
 
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