Fishman | Fluence Signature Series Stephen Carpenter 8-String Pickup Set

Also available in 7-string.

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Stephen Carpenter playing guitar with Fluence pickups on stage

Stephen is a player’s player, preferring to concentrate more on his music than equipment. “I was never the super-critical guy, I’m not much for specs, but I like clean, full sounding pickups. When I was first starting out, I was using a passive, overwound humbucker. And in 2000, when I started playing 7-string, I used the actives that most people used at the time because they worked fine. Simple as that.”

“I was introduced to Fluence by my guitar tech and I’m like, ‘I have been offered my own models multiple times and they never really came to fruition,’ but we put Fluence in and I jammed on them for 45 minutes and thought… ‘these things are freaking great.’ I didn’t want to stop playing. Playing Voice 2 was like going back to my original overwound passives, which ironically are some of the same pickups that were used in creating the sounds for the Fluence.”

Fluence Signature Series Stephen Carpenter Pickup Voicings:

Voice 1: “Like the original Modern Fluence sound that I love, but tweaked a bit in the midrange.”
Voice 2: “This is my custom voicing with some tone and gain tweaks to give it that extra heat and edge.”

Straight from Stephen Carpenter:

My signature pickup set has the full range of tones that you’re looking for. Voice 1 is similar to the tone of the original Modern Humbucker Fluence set. And for the second voice, I like a bit more heat, some hot stuff on it… more edge, so that’s in there too.

Stephen Carpenter

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Fluence Signature Series Stephen Carpenter Pickup Set Includes:

Glow-in-the-dark stripe on the front
1 ceramic pickup (bridge position) and 1 alnico pickup (neck or middle position)
All components required to achieve Stephen’s wiring scheme (minus pickup selector)
Volume and Tone pots
Push-pull Voice Selector pot for use in Volume or Tone position
All wiring required for installation

Fluence Signature Series Stephen Carpenter Pickups:

Are Multi-Voice. Set and forget, or wire-up to toggle between musically complimentary voices.
Drop right in and replace standard humbucker pickups.
Are rechargeable on your guitar. Optional lithium-ion battery pack offers weeks, not hours, of playing time.

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Specifications

	Alnico Pickups	Ceramic Pickups
PEAK FREQUENCY	Voice 1: 630 Hz, Voice 2: 550 Hz / 8 kHz	Voice 1: 750 Hz, Voice 2: 1.4 kHz
MAGNETIC MATERIAL	Alnico V	Ceramic VIII
MAGNETIC CIRCUIT	Bar magnets with blades	Bar magnets with blades
OUTPUT IMPEDANCE	2k	2k
CURRENT DRAW	2.5 mA	3 mA
BATTERY	9-Volt or optional rechargeable battery pack	9-Volt or optional rechargeable battery pack
BATTERY LIFE	Up to 110 hours (for the set)	Up to 110 hours (for the set)

PEAK FREQUENCY	Voice 1: 630 Hz, Voice 2: 550 Hz / 8 kHz
MAGNETIC MATERIAL	Alnico V
MAGNETIC CIRCUIT	Bar magnets with blades
OUTPUT IMPEDANCE	2k
CURRENT DRAW	2.5 mA
BATTERY	9-Volt or optional rechargeable battery pack
BATTERY LIFE	Up to 110 hours (for the set)

PEAK FREQUENCY	Voice 1: 750 Hz, Voice 2: 1.4 kHz
MAGNETIC MATERIAL	Ceramic VIII
MAGNETIC CIRCUIT	Bar magnets with blades
OUTPUT IMPEDANCE	2k
CURRENT DRAW	3 mA
BATTERY	9-Volt or optional rechargeable battery pack
BATTERY LIFE	Up to 110 hours (for the set)