Fishman Fluence Classic HB Set BRS

Coming from a set of Dimarzio air norton/air zone, I was interested to see how these sounded. I mostly play clean, so I may not be the target audience, however I have only heard good things about these.

The pickups, potentiometer, switch and other components are all of a high quality and wiring them up was super simple - I opted for a 5 way blade with pushpull for voice 2 (coil split occuring in the 5 way). My first issue was the pickups were piercingly, overpoweringly bright, so I soldered the HF tilt contact points. This darkened the humbucker sounds, but the split coil was just a bit too trebly still. The tone control wasn't really that useful as supplied.

In conclusion, I think I may have been troubled with option paralysis, there is so much you can do with these pickups, but maybe for me, the sounds it does best, are just sounds I'm not into. I struggled to get any sounds I was truly happy with, I found the top end to be really grating and I felt overall maybe these pickups were a jack of all trades and unfortunately, a master of none.