Don't watch this old trahs, I have an updated and much better video on why Fishman Fluence pickups are different. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5_H1DNtbZOk.html
As a heavy gain user who previously only played passives (not even top of the line passives) for over 15 years I immediately loved the sound of the Fluence Modern. I see some people dislike their 'perfect' artificial tone so maybe it's a matter of taste but when I heard the vibrant and aggressive tone of the mid and low bar chords I was in love. I enjoyed how they sound unique and colorful compared to anything I've played before
That's me lol. The fishmans sound too artificial for me. That's said I'm thinking about getting a guitar with them. I think in a stereo setup with 1 guitar running fishmans and one running duncans or dimarzios the combination might be really nice
Thanks for the comparison. I still prefer your Black Winter CS. Your sound has more character with them and the deep mid/bass range delivers more umph/push. Maybe the Fishman's are too perfect for \m/ . . but definitely fantastic for cleans
I like that even though the Fishman pickups are active, they can achieve "active" or passive tones, depending on the model. Since they are all active and have low impedance outputs, the tone doesn't change whether you use a long or short cable or a wireless system. That's pretty cool! The challenge with passive pickups is that your resonant frequency moves around when you change cables, depending on the cable capacitance. Sorry, I know it's nerd talk...
Nice video. After watching some other videos about these pickups I found myself asking "but why?" because they never really explained it. You've answered all my questions and even gave me a chuckle or two. Cheers!
Fishman yes but would never try EMG, because "active iz sux" and so sterile and removed, right? So after years of stubbornly spending on passives, you realized that all the artists using EMG were in the end right?
The explanation is amazing. The demo....well... I find the Black Winter more dynamic. Pulling out 80 and 160 Hz or just rolling down Bass by 1.5 on the regular EQ would bring it into the voice realm of the Fluence, who sounded good, but was also missing a little realness. So with your custom shop Seymour Duncan you'd have a similar voicing with more bass, AND have more dynamics (not ALWAYS what everybody wants). That's not necessarily as bad a thing as you make it sound :-).
I've been a Seymour Duncan fangirl for almost 20 years (I dropped JB/Jazz in almost everything I own, including my Kiesel DC600). I was going to go with a JB/Jazz for my Osiris I ordered earlier this year, but when Kiesel had Fluence Modern pickups fully wired and installed for a $200, I couldn't say no (because it would have been a $50 upcharge on top of buying a JB & Jazz to ship to them). Fluences are absolutely monstrous and I love the clarity and tone. Duncans are still great if you want a more traditional tone, but damn, I'm impressed with Fishman (I was and still am an avid EMG hater after having 4 shit-sounding guitars with stuff ranging from 60s to 81s to 85s). Seymour Duncan's LiveWire set (basically an active JB and Jazz) is also really good (I have a Dave Mustaine signature with them...love the tone!), but if I had to choose one pickup to play and nothing else, it's probably a set of Fishman Fluence Modern.
I’ll stick with SD’s. (I run JB CS/ whole lotta CS. Both tapped and a tapped tone pot for phase shift in an old ESP/LTD ev400vf ) but if you want the good stuff (as you seem to already know) you can’t buy off the shelf. 😎🎸🎶✌️
@@khayrobs I wanted to get the Tosin's for my 7 string but FKN Fishman only makes them in active housing size. They don't make the Tosin's in passive size, so they won't fit in my guitar :[
Thankyou for your video lately I've been hearing everyone "talk" about Fishman pickups but I couldn't figure out the reason why. This video clearly showed the why! I am an EMG707 fanboy for like forever and I am going to make a change. Thanks.
Killer, glad I can help. When you get a set of Fishman, it's important to tweak your amp settings for the clearer sound. You will amazed at how much high end you were having to add to you 707s.
Man, that's a great video! Thank you for shooting it out A/B with Black Winter, that's my favourite humbucker... You helped me make a decision on my next guitar setup!
Oh I adore the black winter. I've owned a bunch and I currently have two guitars with it in there. Aggressive, cutting, and tones of mod range, which is where that nastiness comes from, which I love and works so good for metal.
I love my Fluence open core pickups! They give me everything I love about a good passive PAF but with consistency and greater versatility. The Moderns are cool, but they do sound just a bit too HiFi for my liking in E standard, though they do sound great in C# and below.
All I wanted was a good PAF guitar, and somehow I ended up here, with a Scott Lepage Fishman Fluence. The PAF tones are great, the "overwound" voicing is great, and the so called "split coil" is the only one I ever heard that actually sounds "normal". Plus it's not really single, so it doesn't even hum. The graveyard of cheap humbucker guitars I returned to GC is absurd. I feel like a jerk, but oh well.
Great Video, and this is actually every reason why I'm NOT USING Fisherman Fluence. Personalty and imperfection to me is perfection in itself. I dont want anyone to have the exact same tone nor do i want someone else, being close enough yet still having your own voice i feel is more important and more needed now than it ever has been before. Everyone is sounding the same these days.
Am sorry dude but that is the most retarded shit I've heard for not using fluence! Lol. You can still make you're own tone and style type just by adjusting you're amp or pedals, scales ect.. That's like saying all the old dinosaur rock sounded the same since they all had PAF pickups. I do understand the logic of you're argument but I think later fluence might let regular folks mod they're pickups to their own specs like they're doing to the guys being endorsed.
I'm freaking loving my Fishmans in my Ibanez Scott Lepage. I normally don't go for signature guitars, but his straight forward switching attracted me, and have not disappointed. As far as I know, only the Epiphone Prophecy guitars feature these with basic A, B, C switching, aside from Scotts guitar. Most have some kind of 5 way, or pull pots, with weird controls, that don't do ALL of the things (all three voices, in all three positions.)
The fucking guitar was brighter than the blue retina scorching LED on my MXR Fullbore Metal. Jesus. Fishman are good pickups. But with today’s equipment you can make any pickup sound like any other pickup. Flavor of the month. Whatever floats your boat. So long as you go hard, I don’t care if you use Chibson pickups 👊🏻
I'm not really a metal guy , at best I enjoy playing progressive rock leads , jazz , fusion etc. In the past I've enjoyed dynamic tones with passives , and fishman pickups just deliver that in spades. From the moderns , classics and the Abasi set. They have this really nasally mid range that's unlike any pickup I've tried. They have this snappy warm feeling that I'm addicted to now. They do have a high-fi and un real sound but in a good way , very pleasing analog way. Every new guitar going forward will be with fishmans .
That custom black winter sounded muddy as hell.. Ive read mixed things about fishmans, some insist they sound artificial or puny, but Ive heard some beautiful demos. I should really take a deep dive into fishman pickups. They sounded good in this demo.
That was awesome and very informative. Kudos on just straight up no bullshit, this is how it is. I'm 2 days away from receiving my Schecter sls c7 elite multiscale with the fluence modern's. Can't wait. 🤘 hope to have a similar positive outcome as this will be the first time having Fishman...
Nice video, but ..to compare those pickups you should mount on the same guitar or model with the same 95& same setting, adjusting pickup heights(not easy task) and then make comparison with at few different rolls of volume potentiometer and all it on clean(some spacious effect is ok), overdrive and high gain lead and rythm. There can be heard huge difference with all nuances as well.
This was a general discussion about the pickups as, not an in depth comparison. I have other videos up where the pickups are in the same guitars, setup the same with 500k pots for the comparison. Also, the guitar really isn't making the difference you think it is. At most some sustain and resonance are effected by the construction and wood choices, at least with electrics, acoustics are a different story. There is a lot out there busting the tone wood myth for electrics, so this video was fine in just showing that the pickups didn't have the clarity issues passive high output pickups deal with. Here are some links to me comparing these pickups and more in the same guitars with the same setup ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2s53N_m-iyY.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2p436uD5ASQ.html
I got an 8 string set and I've never looked back. Fantastic pickups. The only thing I would change in the low output. I tune down to DGDGCEAD and the lows require a lot of cutting to be tamed. But then again they are voiced for two steps or one step if drop E higher than what I tune to.
Fluence sounds more alive than enything. You can hear all the hatmonics and the sound is not loosing its tone whatsoever. I will buy them for suuuuuure.
That broken English sounds either like you're having a stroke or as if you're very very stupid. But hey, who can blame ya? English is a _very_ obscure language that is not spoken in a lot of places and definitely not taught in schools the world over.
Each guitar having its own voice is part of their charm, and the main reason most guitarists have and use many guitars. Differences between two identical copies of the same guitar model would be nowhere near drastic enough (let alone noticeable to most people) to require the sound engineer to compensate, but most performing artists are not actually bothered with duplicate guitars and instead carry different guitars. Their signature sound is not defined by the pickups or their guitars. The same setup will sound different from one gig to the next as the room differs no matter how much the sound engineer tries to compensate, so any obsession about micro-details of pickup sound is moot and only noticeable in a sterile and reproducible environment like a home studio.
Having a consistent sound is really important, and starting with a good base, your pickups, you can tune and shape your tone from that base. By that logic why use different pickups at all? why doesn't everyone use a JB or EMG 81 if engineers can just fix it in the mix? How they feel is important, how they respond, all of it, not having to fight with your guitar and EQ the hell out of it to get to the sound you want, all super important, and I dont care how the good the engineer is, if your pickups are muddy, undefined and lack clarity, they cant add clarity. there is a video of Tosin Abasi at a clinic at pitbull audio in san diego. he looped his old signature guitar with his old dimarzios, then he looped his then signature model with his FIshmans playing the same song. He switched between the two loops, and speaking as someone who was there in the room, the difference in clarity and tone was not just noticeable but drastic.
Read again what I wrote instead of posting a prefab response that has nothing to do with what I said. I did not say all pickups sound the same, nor that it can just be fixed in the mix. I said that the differences in sound between guitars are actually desirable by most guitarists and do not need to be compensated for. Nothing wrong with liking how a fishman works or sounds. But dissing traditional pickups for "inconsistencies" is BS. Two guitars will never be identical (each piece of wood is unique) so it is irrelevant if the pickups in them are identical. In fact I suspect the manufacturing tolerances of pickups are much tighter than those of wood. If you desperately want consistency in a studio recording, just use the same guitar, why change it? In a live setup in a rock/metal context nobody can tell the difference between your main and back up guitar, unless you get extremely different guitars, in which case you are at fault, not the pickups.
I read what you wrote and this isn't a prefab answer. I didn't even imply that all pickups sound the same, I was just saying from the point you were making, why even have pickup options, why doesn't everyone use the same pickups. Ah, you got ass hurt because you thought I was dissing traditional pickups. I love traditional pickups, man, and I've used tones of them across most brands. It's not dissing them to acknowledge their limitations. With electrics, the wood is negligible for tone. The sounds is an electromagnetic response and doesn't have anything to do with the wood. If we were talking acoustics that would be a different story, but we're not. At most it will effect how long a string will resonate. Now, sure, you could just use the same guitar for everything, but that doesn't solve the issue many gigging players have with needing multiple guitars for different tunings. It also doesn't acknowledge the problem a lot of players encounter when they like the tone of a 6 string pickup, and want it in an extended range version like a 7 or 8 string but the extra cooper winding it takes to make a 6 string pickup changes the tone and output considerably, and the same problem happens the other way around. The Fishman Fluence solve that issue. You might not care about consistency or think that dialing in a sound is all that important, but most professional musicians and engineers would disagree with you.
Metalhead Productions hey man this vid was great. You did excellent job explaining these fishmans. Idk why this guys being a little bitch. But I’m gonna sub. Keep on rockin brother
Absolutely love your channel and what your doing your definitely a metalheads metalhead. Have no fuckin idea how stevie t has a million subscribers.Stick to your guns and keep doing what your doin and don't compromise just for subscribers.\m/
Arch Druid thanks so much. I really do appreciate that. I have some cool stuff coming for the Keith merrow fishman pickups and the Randall Satan 50 watt. Thanks for the support
IF you can get a hold of the new Axe fx 3 try demoing it together side by side or combined with the Kemper and different rack mounted power amps with different tubes(6L6,EL84,KT88 etc.) by different companies(Mesa Boogie,Engl,Carvin etc.) Also if you can, demo the new Marty Friedman and Kirk Hammet signature EMG pickups. \m/
Fishman's support leaves a lot to be desired. They have all these endorsement deals, they should hire some more support folks. One of the things that stinks about the Fluence is they use 2.5M pots, and when you order a set, it doesn't let you configure it with long shaft or short shaft, or add switches, etc. They take FOREVER to respond to emails, took about a month for them to send replacement pots that would actually fit my guitar. The pickups are great, but everything else isn't.
Awesome video sir! Great explanation of how the fishman fluences works, but I would like to ask you, in the tone comparison part, doesnt the seymour duncan sound much more "muddy" and with more Low-mids also because you compared an Flying V with an Explorer? Why am I asking this? Because I owned a Jackson King V and a Esp MX-250 replica, and the explorer had much more Low-mids than the V also... I am not trying to say that the Fluences sound better than the Duncans, I think that they do! I think the comparison would be better if you recorded both pickups installed in the very same guitar (with the same strings too, and also preferably using your V), then it would be better to compare.. What do you think? Also, that is the first video of your channel that I whatched. Awesome work! Congrats from Brazil!
not really, I have a comparison video up between several fishmans, the black winter, some blackouts and some emgs, all in the same schecter, and the black winter still has that pronounced low end. That v and the explorer are the same body and neck woods and are about the same weight so it wouldn't make much of a difference. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2p436uD5ASQ.html
Even much better then some of guys (some metal heads) who are making pickup comparison on heavy distortion, which belongs to category hearing impaired, slightly saying.
Do I hear Behemoth in there? Finally someone playing som Behemoth. These guys don't get nowhere near enough recognition. I think the Fishmans sound amazing compared to the custom SD Blackouts. Now, grated, I do think you use a bit too much gain and/or bass frequency on your amp (at least that's what it sounds like to me). No offense, though. Just my humble opinion. Keep being awesome. :)
The active fluence sound cool, the passive not so much and the Seymour’s sound more hollow which is a cool thing too I rate em 1. Fishman active 2. Seymour custom 3. Fishman passive ( just doesn’t sound balanced to me)
Eh, I'm not about that brand loyalty. I love my Duncans, the black winter and nazgul in particular, but I love my fishmans, and my bare knuckle pickups also. Lots of great gear out there and I'd never want to limit myself.
4:29: that Tosin video you talked about, that was my turning point, that's when I was sold on Fluences never to look for anything else regarding PUPs...
The moderns, being that they're going for a better active pickup, have the same complaints be do about EMGs with top end. People think it's "sterile." The moderns are just less compressed and can have more low-end than something like an 81. Personally, I prefer the Keith merrows, Devin Townsends, classics and Willie Adler sets. Those I would say definitely don't have that sterile too end. As for sounding synthetic, no I don't think so. They sound hi fi for sure, and clearer than your average pickup and that can throw people off.
@@MetalHeadProductions Thanks for the reply man! Yeah makes sense, same way people gravitate towards a "normal" guitar speaker rather than a FRFR... Myself I'm finding myself leaning more towards something like the 57/66 set, coupled with a V30, searching for that mid boost. But it's good everybody has different tastes, otherwise it would all sound the same. Rock on!
@@Scarrus666 57/66 EMGs are the best EMG make, in my opinion. I'd really recommend, if you ever get the chance, something like the classics from fishmans are really killer.
@@MetalHeadProductions Yeah, that 57/66 set does sound awesome! I might look into the fishmans too, a friend is getting them, I believe, so I'll get to try it out at least.
@@MetalHeadProductions thanks for the reply. Essentially if you're buying used Fishman pickups you want the complete package . Also since these pickups are voiced differently, you can't simply swap one set for another either?
@@alex1982maple some of the wiring on these sets will be just fine to swap around. I've done that with a few, but some of them either have more voicings or coil splits so some of that won't work. If you're getting used you'll need to buy the pots you'll need, and those pickups need the two cables that plug into each pickup to come with them
Okay, so. When you played your clean tone, I was very upset. Not with the tone, but because i have the same guitar, and your top looks 1000x better than mine. It might as well not even be a quilted top.
I have, they are pretty good. I've been fortunate to get to use a lot of gear from working in a guitar store, and in guitar manufacturing. About the only pickups I haven't gotten to try are the tons of small boutique pickup builders.
I once bought a replica mayoness from China for like $500 USD the pickups it had sounded like bare Knuckle juggernauts. I found it hilarious lol I tried to return the damn things to the uk and it was a pain :( I sold them for a $20 loss on amazon. which was ok for me. The bad thing about those pickups was that I got them wet when I spilled water on them by accident. That killed them and they never worked afterwards. I tried putting them in rice for like a week and it did nothing. I was sad :( I never bought a bare knuckle ever again because the return policy and customer service was horrible kinda like hipshots. They don’t answer your emails and ignore you for the most part after a problem arises. I don’t know to much about Fishman. They did answer my questions on a video tho :D some demos I’ve seen of Fishman make them sound good but others don’t :/ not really sure how they sound might just be the way they play or their set up. I do like that they have different sound options, although to me they kinda sound the same. Maybe Apple airpods don’t pickup the differences. what I would love to know is if the pole pieces rust after some time. Nowhere on their website does it state what the pole pieces are made of. I really hope it’s stainless steel. rusty pickup poles look ugly.
Lots of good information here. But constantly hearing unnecessary music behind the talking is really annoying. Especially for people listening with headphones or on speakers. The constant music interferes with trying to focus on what you're saying. I think a lot of teenagers started these trends on TikTok with always blaring music along with everything. Our group here say to bag the music and just let your excellent speaking voice carry the vocal segments. Thanks.
I get what you're saying but I've had people complain about not having anything playing the background, and I do feel like it's better with low level music. I will say however this video is super old and my production value was horribly low and is better now for both video and audio.
@@MetalHeadProductions I gotcha. No worries. I’ve had a lot of discussions like this with other content creators. I help mix a lot of audio from podcasts, videos, and studio environments. We notice that a lot of folks that just post silly content do better with music but the noisier the music, the fewer repeat listens. With creators like you who have more useful content, I’d recommend mixing the music a LOT lower in the mix. I can almost guarantee you’ll have more repeat listens and better reception. I wouldn’t write at all if I didn’t care and I like your channel. Keep up the good work! 😎
@@meungawa thanks for the advice, and yeah, my later videos have everything mixed a lot lower. My video editing skills were nonexistent all those years ago, so fair enough criticism, haha.
Dude! What a fantastic review! It's rare that i watch any kind of gear review and have basically every question i went in with answered. Just out of question, can u get a versitile clean tone? Is this that long fabled pickup that will allow me to play blues and jazz and the flip a switch and turn my guitar into an instrument of immediate deathly brutality capable of taking toddlers out at 50 yards?
Yeah, you can get great cleans out of the second voicing, although, for the variety of tones you're after one of the signature sets might be better. The devin Townsend set have a high output metal voicing, an incredible could split voicing, and have a lower output rock/blue setting. The Keith merrow set has a mid output metal setting, a low output paf, and great coil split, and the tosin set has his metal setting, and several coil options for his clan and more jazzy sounds, like one of the settings splits the two inner could of the pickups. Hope that helps
there are certain ones that dont have the covers now, and while I dont mind the line, I can see how it bothers some people. I definitely prefer the open coil look
I might modify my strat with fishman pickups but i got to route out a battery compartment I originally was going to put EMG pickups due to Metallica but Metallica might change pickups to fishman watch it might happen
Duncan’s just sound better imo. The fishmans sound fake to me. It’s literally a metaphorical having your cake and eating it type thing. The fishman has all the frequencies, but they do not sound legit and the pickup lacks character. I’m actually glad I didn’t order any for my 550. I think I’m just a true passive guy.
the keith merrow fishmans are maybe my favorite pickups ever, and adore the classics and devin townsend sets, nothing fake sounding about them, but I also love my duncans, bkp and monty's guitars pickups.
They are more powered pickups to switch between voices than active. all pickups, regardless of type, have a particular voice, and no, actives aren't about hi-fi sound, actives have weaker magnets with a preamp to boost the signal for higher sustain. That is why they were designed. The Fishman voicings aren't BS, the coil tech as opposed to tradition cooper wrapping, allows the pickups to isolate frequency ranges and to increase or decrease overall output changing the tonal output, feel and response of the pickup from voice to voice.
Yes, it is a sponsored video. I get it, people go from passive pickups to Fisherman's Friend but these are overhyped pickups nowhere near EMG. Yes, the pros with their racks of effects can cover up the differences and live with it, they do it for the money they get for turning in gullible newbs to the company. Or I might be totally wrong, as this is an opinion.
Um, no it's not sponsored. I got no money or anything free for this, I just work in the industry and these are the first actually new pickup designs in decades. Also, EMG get wrecked by these, absolutely no contest. A lot of the pros that switched to these left other, bigger sponsorship deals, like tosin, and keith merrow left a job with SD for these. This isn't about tricking "newbs" it's about good sounding pickups that are the first real advancements in pickup technology since the active pickup. I've done the comparisons myself, and the improvements were so drastic I've been switching all my pickups to fishman, and live I got to hear Tosin loop his old signature dimarzios and his new fluence and the sound difference made the entire room literally gasp.
I hear more mid-bass distortion during palm mutes, and maybe slightly better articulation with single notes. It's not a difference that I would consider changing pickups to attain. I'd probably roll off the mid-bass a little bit with a parametric EQ.
Have you compared to the Lace Alumitones? They have a similar thing going on. I liked the ones I tried; had a very interesting articulate attack that I haven't experienced in any other pickup.
I haven't, those are a whole different animal and function pretty differently than really any pickups. I have been thinking about demoing those and giving them a shot though.
@@MetalHeadProductions They're worth a try for comparison's sake. They will likely end up in one of my guitars because I liked what they did, but I don't think they would be my "do everything" pickup. But I did prefer them over EMGs, they had alot of that what I like about EMGs, plus a little extra, plus the bonus of being totally passive.
Just my own opinion here, Fluence is great for high gain sound. But it really lacks the dynamics and delicacy of passive pickups in low gain tones, there's always this "stiffness" present no matter what amp, modeler or plugin I use. It's great to have, but I wouldn't use it as my only pickup.
I just bought a Schecter SLS Evil Twin E-1 guitar. It certainly is different. It has the Fishman Fluence Modern set. They sound great but the problem I have with them is that I don't get a lot of low end that sounds clear. It gets kind of muddy. I don't get the same tone from my other guitar that have passive pickups. I have a Schecter Guitar Research C-1 Platinum Electric Guitar Emerald Burst with an EMG 81 (Bridge)/85 (Neck), it seems the EMG 81 is more pronounced. I am looking for that vintage classic rock sound, i.e., AC/DC, Foreigner, that kind of thing. What are your thoughts on Fishman Fluence Moderns? Thank you for posting this.
If you're are looking for a vintage classic rock sound you should take into consideration PAF clones pickups. Fishman Moderns are arguably among the most versatile (if not the most versatile) pickups out there, but they still remain active pickups with their specific type of sound and focus. Those are made to sound tight in the low end and precise (same as EMG81s even tho Fishmans are a little tighter), you kinda want the opposite for an AC/DC-ish tone, meaning a looser less precise bottom end and a lower output (like a much lower output, a vintage output) with less compression. For some pickup suggestions, you could try with a Duncan 59B, or if you can spend a little more a Bare Knuckle Riff Raff. If you prefer actives you can try with the EMG57/66 set, those are based on PAFs, but still they won't get you much better results than an 81 or a Fishman.
You have no idea how sick I am of hearing about this. I didn't even know who he was until a couple months ago when someone said I ripped off his logo. I didn't rip off his logo, I've been on RU-vid for years with this logo. It's the old, pre emoji, way of doing the devil horns for metal. Our logos look alike but they mean different things.
More winds for more output makes for shrill highs? Nope. Exact opposite, the more turns of wire or any other change to increase inductance and thus output takes away from the top end. This is the key compromise in pickup construction.
you just going to ignore the entire part immediately after that where I talk about muddy low end from more winds or the problem with making 6 string pickups 7 string? cool. Btw, this is true depending on the magnet and blade type. the black winters, which I talk about here, extremely high output, have the thick low end, but also gets fizzy and a little harsh on the high end, the jupiter pickup is even higher output than that, both pickups are ceramic, but the Jupiter has blades, and it is extremely ice picky on the top end. In contrast, the nazgul is lower output and also ceramic, but has less high end than either the black winter or the jupiter. the point is when you boost the signal, even if you over wound the pickups to the point where you loose a dramatic amount of high end, lets say everything over 8k, the high end and upper mid frequencies, like 7k, are still hitting your pedals and amp way more than they would otherwise. you boost 7k on your guitar in a mix, a little can add some nice top end, you add any more than a db or two, that shit with sound shrill af.
@@MetalHeadProductions Given the cutoff frequency of a hight outout pickup is at around 2kHz when installed in a guitar, you might want to revise those numbers.
@@rowlandstraylight ...news to me. Someone should tell this SD chart.... www.seymourduncan.com/blog/product-news/pickup-comparison-chart My point stands, like with the black winter. Super hot, has a lot of 6k, and it has a tone of fizz.
