The Real Difference between EMG's and Fishman Fluence Moderns 

They actually fuction like two separate coils, because they don't interact physically like parallel connected humbuckers. It's more like two single coils connected to different channels of a mixer.

That might explain why they retain dynamics so well despite the higher output.

Good to know, and while everything about active pickups is interesting, this approach is just the obvious way to do it. A single op-amp (a tiny chip) has an inverting and a non-inverting input and can be used as a summing amplifier or a differential amplifier. Regardless, the advantage of having the two signals treated separately is that you can adjust the circuit so that a small coil and a large coil are balanced (at the same signal level). So coil 1 could have 500 turns and coil 2 could have only 100, and they could still cancel. Or perhaps one coil is above and the other is below. If you just wired the two coils together and amplified the whole thing, you'd have to have the same amount of turns on both coils, or if they were in an over & under configuration, you'd have to match them somehow (this is what noiseless single-coil pickups do). The only thing I can't explain is why you would want to use a differential amplifier if the two coils are already inverted with respect to each other (as they would be), but humbuckers are pretty wierd once you start coil-splitting, and op-amps are wildly more complex and amazing than I understand or can explain. Op-amps are also used to adjust the tonal parameters of the pickup (basicallly as high-pass and low-pass filters) and often feed their output back into other op-amps, and it's all highly confusing. That's why I'm super interested to watch this video. :)

I couldn’t grasp layers of PCB making up coils.

Lol

@@Hesohi oof, well at least u do now right?

@@Hesohi right lol

I also find it hard to explain. Most my friends say “what’s a guitar pickup?”.

It's just mumble jumble critics on internet forums really... Some people are biased without even trying tbh.

Nice to see some recognition for Rancid. I will let you know when I get a set, for sure.@@roymartin500

Marty Friedman. Also passive EMGs.

Yeah same. Somewhat insightful ig that it looks just like the Fluence in a way with the naked eye

Also nice pfp, I think I may have seen you before. Where is it from?

I felt the same way, but after getting some EMGs myself, I've come to find out that they actually don't use that much power. A set of EMGs will supposedly run 1,000 hours on a 9 volt battery. At least according to themselves.

@@bennylarsen1907 yeah, they're using a super simple differential amplifier design which draws 80 microamps (0,08mA). In comparison, a Fishman Fluence Modern draws a whopping 2,5mA which is more than 30 times that of an EMG - and the reason why they sell battery packs too. :D

​@@666takecover TBH 2.5 mA is still not terrible, and totally worth it for the added flexibility and more balanced sound vs EMGs. IMO.

EMG 81 Ceramic magnets EMG 85 Alnico 5 magnets

They don't actually, the Fishman pickups only use the ends of the coils, there are no taps. The voicing comes from switching capacitance in and out before the preamp.

Same. Except I don't have them.... Still tho!

It’s an 85

Yep, Fishman have solderless option, as well. Although, I'm pretty sure that in order to utilize coil tapping, you still have to solder one small connection, on the opposite side of the pickup (opposite of the side that has the solderless hook-up)

then why does ESP/LTD list them as active for the JM-II guitar? Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Ceramic (Active) What are you trying to say, I'm a bit confused?

If someone sponsors the video I sure will

might affect tone as well

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Thank u sire