Fluence Townsend Sig anyone?

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It would be nice to know if this set would work with Duncan Trieple shot rings. I was looking at the Townsend set to put in my Tremonti which I have Triple Shots in. A lot of switching options there. Would it work? Are these designed for quick soderless connection or your good old regular wires?
 
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juka said:
...just occurred to me: Could it be that the HF Tilt function is enabled by default on V1? That would explain what I'm hearing in this set?
But this is something probably only Frank can answer.
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The Townsends don't have the HF Tilt, but it's neither on nor off. The Voicing is specific to that model. Devin liked two very subtle things though, sag, and some mild clipping, like just a touch. Not like active pickups, but like about 10% of that...Both of those things together does make them a little spongier, compared to the Moderns which are more up front.

Igornopolis said:
It would be nice to know if this set would work with Duncan Triple shot rings.
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Not really, no. Those are configured for a 4-conductor HB, and Fluence is a low impedance pickup with voice switching. The coil splits are a separate solder pad. But you can get a lot of combinations with just 2 push pulls. If need be, you could add a switch or use a super switch to get custom combinations.
 
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frankfalbo said:
...The Voicing is specific to that model. Devin liked two very subtle things though, sag, and some mild clipping, like just a touch. Not like active pickups, but like about 10% of that...Both of those things together does make them a little spongier, compared to the Moderns which are more up front...
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Thanks again, Frank. Why don't you write the texts on the Fluence pickups? Because I find your descriptions much more fitting than this generic marketing blabla on the Fishman website. Although your comparison to the EMG89 in an earlier post was a bit misleading. Would one of the newer sigs (Abasi/KSE) bring me closer to this territory?
 
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Juka, I got a couple of questions if you could answer for me. I'd really appreciate it.
What kind of guitar did you have the Townsend set in? I noticed what looks like a Tremonti model in your sig and I'm looking to put this set in mine. How did you like the single coil type voices? I prefer that warm "old strings" tone for my high gain metal tones but need that twangy cut in the single coil voice. Thanks again.
Frank Falbo btw is such a great dude. Thanks for getting back at us with all this great info Frank.
 
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I have them in my McRosie. Some of those tend to sound a little bit darker, but luckily mine is not.
The "single coil" voice is very tele-like, just as Frank described it.
So it might be the right set for you.
 
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juka said:
I have them in my McRosie. Some of those tend to sound a little bit darker, but luckily mine is not.
The "single coil" voice is very tele-like, just as Frank described it.
So it might be the right set for you.
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Thanks :)
Any noise at all when in single coil mode voicing? This is important to me. I got a really noisy power in my house/basement studio. 60 cycle hum is killing me when recording in single coil mode on my regular pickups .
 
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Yes, there is an increase in noise, but I'll leave it to Frank to explain how they achieve their "single coil" sounds and how this will affect noise canceling.
 
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I guess I'm gonna have to try the set and see how it's gonna work for me. Any of that ceramic harshness at all? Especially in the cleans? I did not detect any on that recent Devin video where he demoed them and the iGuitar magazine fella but yt videos can be missleading. Fluff and most of the guys like you seem to say that there is an inherent warmth/darkness to them which would indicate that ceramic harshness is not present. I always seem to keep the presence and treble on my amp very low so I suppose these would fit the sonic bill. Forgive my pesty curiosity..
 
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As I do not like the sound of ceramic pickups in general, I was very very reluctant to give the Fluence Modern even a try. But to my amazement everything I didn't like for example in an EMG81 was absent in the Modern Ceramic. After liking the Modern set so much, I bought the Townsend set for my other guitar without much thought and it doesn't sound "ceramic" either.
 
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With 3 new sets of pickups announced at NAMM I'm utterly confused :crazy:

All 3 seem to start from the modern voice with slight alterations, 2 of them offer the whole bandwidth from heavy to clean just as the Townsend set.
So which to choose???

As said earlier the Townsend set has all the great Fluence attributes, but to my ears has always a bit of this "old string" sound, which I do not like so much.
Output wise they seem to have higher output than the modern set whereas KSE are described to have reduced output and with the Abasis it's unclear (tuned to Abasi's liking, whatever that means!?).

...and then there's the Adler set, which I understand to have no "single coil" sound, but the best of modern voice 1 and classic voice 2 in one pickup, which would appeal to me, too.

If your mission was to confuse me completely, I would say well done Fishman!
 
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Yeah, I'd love some clarification on the new sets and how they compare, as well
 
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