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Fret-King Corona 60 & 70 Fluence Equipped £1,699 each Electrics Wireless is more Trevor Wilkinson teams up with Larry Fishman’s latest pickup invention to produce a pair of super guitars. Fluence has landed Words Dave Burrluck photography Joseph Branston June 2015 Guitarist 95 GIT394.rev_fret.
Fret-King Corona 60 & 70 FluenCe equipped £1,699 each ElEctrics Fret-King Corona 60 & 70 Fluence Equipped £1,699 each What You Need To Know 1 What the heck is Fluence? It’s the name of Fishman’s first entry into the electric guitar pickup market. Our review FretKings are loaded with the ‘single coil’ Single Width pickups and a pair of Classic Humbuckers.
VIDEO DEMO Fret-King Corona 60 & 70 FluenCe equipped £1,699 each ElEctrics http://bit.ly/ guitarist394 The Rivals Fender doesn’t make an active pickup-loaded Stratocaster, so you might be best looking at the perennial American Standard (£1,438) and fitting your own active pickups – it’s not that difficult! The obvious rival to the Fluence pickups is EMG. Its single-coil sized humbuckers, like the SA, retail at £69.
Fret-King Corona 60 & 70 FluenCe equipped £1,699 each ElEctrics the price when purchased individually, the gap narrows considerably when sold as a three-unit set with that shared preamp. Sounds Evaluating a guitar pickup isn’t straightforward. Unlike a microphone, which you can line up next to your reference mic and listen to how it sounds capturing your voice or guitar, for example, you can’t just compare a Fluence-loaded instrument with another guitar.
VIDEO DEMO Fret-King Corona 60 & 70 FluenCe equipped £1,699 each ElEctrics http://bit.ly/ guitarist394 Power Packs FLUENCE pickups need power, and they can use either a standard nine-volt battery – which offers 250 hours’ continuous use for the Single Widths and 200 for the Classic Humbuckers – or three optional rechargeable battery packs.
VIDEO DEMO Fret-King Corona 60 & 70 FluenCe equipped £1,699 each ElEctrics http://bit.ly/ guitarist394 Fret-King Green Label Corona 60 & 70 Fluence The Corona 60 is fitted with Single Width pickups, but they are hum cancelling With their potentially three different voices, the Fluences are unique, along with their solid cores active pickup with a barge pole.
Fret-King Corona 60 & 70 Fluence Equipped £1,699 each Electrics Are the coils and windings of traditional guitar pickups about to be superseded? Sculpting Sound When it comes to amplifying the acoustic instrument, there’s little that Fishman doesn’t know.
Fret-King Corona 60 & 70 Fluence Equipped £1,699 each Electrics When physics and guitars collide: a revolutionary pickup without a wound coil ’cos it’s going to change the sound. Now, plenty of people do exploit that, but many don’t. So, even the greatest-sounding pickups have this negative side.” Getting powered “I said, ‘Okay, let’s fix that,’ Larry remembers. “The first decision – and it was a tough one because I know how reticent this industry is to change – was to go active.
