Description
The Fluence Modern set pairs an Alnico pickup with a Ceramic pickup, giving you two magnet types and four total voices to work with. The usual layout is Ceramic in the bridge and Alnico in the neck, but since these are active, noiseless designs, there’s no wiring reason to stick to convention — install them wherever your ears prefer.
Both pickups are built around Fishman’s Fluence Core, a ground-up rethink of pickup construction that sidesteps the hum, inductance quirks, and treble loss that come standard with traditional wire-wound coils. Each pickup is genuinely Multi-Voice: wire in a push-pull or mini-switch and toggle between two distinct, musically useful sounds without any drop in output, rather than the usual thin coil-tap compromise.
- Alnico V voice 1: full, round active tone with real articulation (950kHz peak)
- Alnico V voice 2: crisp, fluid neck-humbucker clarity without going thin (8kHz peak)
- Ceramic VIII voice 1: tight, searing active crunch with no low-end mud (720kHz peak)
- Ceramic VIII voice 2: organic high-output passive-style ceramic snarl for distortion (1.89kHz peak)
Both pickups share a bar-magnet-with-blades circuit, 2k output impedance, and 2.5mA current draw. The Alnico runs 120 Gauss at the string; the Ceramic runs 145 Gauss. Long cable runs are a non-issue since the active buffering keeps the signal intact at 20′, 30′, even 50’+, and volume can be rolled back without losing top end.
Power comes from a standard 9-volt battery (rated for roughly 200 hours) or Fishman’s optional rechargeable lithium-ion pack, so you’re not tethered to disposable batteries. Drop-in replacement for standard humbucker routing, finished in black plastic covers.
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