Fishman Fluence Tosin Abasi Set BK

This is a set of terrifyingly good pickups. The coil-split sound replicates either a strat or telecaster perfectly with its bell-like clean tone. There is little to no volume drop, and it is very desirable to use in a setting where you need to have a versatile guitar to get multiple styles of sound out of it.

Pros: Literally everything about how this set of pickups sound.
Cons: According to my luthier, this set of pickup is very hard to install. But every good thing comes at a cost. They can sound a bit thin and noisy from time to time, but it may be a personal issue of bad electrical field in my room.

I would recommend this set of pickups to the ones who want to get that perfect "in-between" as well as spilt coil sounds from artists such as Tosin Abasi, Tim Henson and Ichika Nito on a two humbucker guitar. I wired it to a 3 way + Mini 2 way DPDT Switch for coil spilt, but having a 5 way will be way easier.

I was looking to replace the pickups in my LTD EC 330 with something suitable for both clean and high-gain sounds. Initially I was going to purchase either the EMG HET set or the 57/66 set, however I decided to research Fishman's Fluence range. The ability to swap between pickup 'voices' through push-pull pots sounded like an excellent idea, so I looked deeper.

After watching numerous videos on the Classics, Moderns, Devin Townsend's and Tosin Abasi's, I went with Tosin's set. Admittedly I wasn't familiar with Animals As Leaders up to that point, but I fell in love with Tosin's clean tone in songs like The Woven Web and Behaving Badly. Tosin has a great 'pickup shootout' video on YouTube if you want to hear the Fluences compared to other passive pickups.

Installing these was quite the project. I needed to replace two pots, remove almost all of the wiring and solder some extra wires in my LTD to install these, but it was well worth it. The single-coil voice is perfect for cleans, and the humbucker voices deliver powerful sounds through overdrive and gain.

My LTD has become a weapon thanks to these pickups, so high recommendations are due.