RevDrucifer
Fractal Fanatic
Ah yeah I was looking at the Fishman Fluence. Do they have the same variety the Devin Townsend ones do? Yeah I'll do some research. But it can be a bit overwhelming shopping for new pickups. Thanks for your advice!
I finally got my installed today. Man, what a difference between them and the stock Duncan Custom I had on that guitar. It was actually a cheapo Duncan/Ibanez Custom which was medium output. After playing for a few minutes, I realized how perfect they are. I couldn’t figure out if I wanted to go active or stick with passives, so this is the best of both worlds. There’s a big enough difference between the Active/Classic settings that when I’m layering guitars, I can just switch settings and get enough of a difference that I won’t feel the need to change guitars or even amps.
The neck pickup is ridiculous. In every setting, active, classic or split coil + classic, it sounds GREAT with cleans. I have an Eric Johnson Clean preset I made a while back with my Strat, with the Fishman’s, it’ll break up when I’m in Active mode and then have different voices of chime-y in the Classic and Split. It’s taken a very one dimensional guitar and essentially turned it into 3.
Going to have to change a lot of my main presets as these push the gain through the roof. The cool thing is that I went to my JP2C+ preset, dialed back the overdrive a few notches, cut back the High Treble and Treble, turned up the Presence just a skootch and it was PERFECT. Better than I’ve gotten it to sound yet.
I watched Matt Heafy’s vid about Fishman’s the other day and he said something that came off very snake-oily to me; he said when he changed pickups it finally felt like he was playing in time with the band. Obviously, he’s released a ton of records playing very much in time, so I blew it off. However, doing the tight chugga stuff, there’s no flub filling in between the chugs. It’s not a palm mute thing, it’s a tone thing. It makes total sense to me now.
