Stephen is a player’s player, preferring to concentrate more on his music than equipment. “My signature pickup set has the full range of tones that you’re looking for. Voice 1 is similar to the tone of the original Modern Humbucker Fluence set. And for the second voice, I like a bit more heat, some hot stuff on it… more edge, so that’s in there too.”

Each Fishman Fluence pickup has two distinct and useful sounds on-board. These sounds start with the revolutionary Fluence Core, the heart of Fluence tone. From this Fluence Core we then create the classic timbres and tone — colors you expect from great guitar pickups — as well as some you’ve never expected.

“I was never the super-critical guy. I’m not much for specs, but I like clean, full sounding pickups. We put Fluence in and I jammed on them for 45 minutes and thought… ‘these things are freaking great…’ I didn’t want to stop playing.”

STEPHEN CARPENTER SIGNATURE PICKUP SET
7-STRING SET: PRF-MS7-SC1
8-STRING SET: PRF-MS8-SC1
VOICE 1: "Like the original Modern Fluence sound that I love, but tweaked a bit in the midrange."
VOICE 2: "This is my custom voicing with some tone and gain tweaks to give it that extra heat and edge."
BATTERY: 9-volt or optional rechargeable battery pack
BATTERY LIFE: Up to 90 hours
ALNICO NECK PICKUP SPECS
PEAK FREQUENCY: Voice 1: 630 Hz
Voice 2: 550 Hz / 8 kHz
MAGNETIC MATERIAL:
Alnico V
MAGNETIC CIRCUIT: Bar magnets with blades
GAUSS STRENGTH: 120 gauss strength at string
OUTPUT IMPEDANCE: 2 k
CURRENT DRAW: 2.5 mA
CERAMIC BRIDGE PICKUP SPECS
PEAK FREQUENCY:
Voice 1: 750 Hz
Voice 2: 1.4 kHz
MAGNETIC MATERIAL: Ceramic VIII
MAGNETIC CIRCUIT: Bar magnets with blades
GAUSS STRENGTH: 145 gauss strength at string
OUTPUT IMPEDANCE: 2 k
CURRENT DRAW: 3 mA