Fishman’s revolutionary Fluence pickups have gained two major endorsers in Devin Townsend and Deftones’ Stephen Carpenter, both of whom have new Fluence Signature sets on the market just released by the US company.
A set of Fluence Signature pickups incorporates two voices each player had been searching for and might have achieved across multiple instruments, but are now instantly available at the flick of a switch, Fishman says.
As Devin Townsend puts it, “Typically, I’ve done a record of brutal heavy metal, followed by a new-age or country record, and in the past I’ve had to work with two very distinct groups of equipment to achieve what I’m going for. Now, for the first time in my career, what I use in the studio is exactly the same as what I use onstage. Same guitar, same pickups, my Fishman Fluence Transcendence set.”
Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter adds, “I was introduced to Fluence by my guitar tech, and I’ve been offered my own signature pickup models many times in the past that never really came to fruition. But we put Fluence in, I jammed on them for 45 minutes and thought ‘these things are freaking great,’ I didn’t want to stop playing.”
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