How to Wire FISHMAN Fluence Classic Humbuckers (Tutorial)
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2021
- A full explanation on how to wire a set of Fishman Fluence Classic Humbuckers in a 2 volume and 2 tone controls configurations, push-pull pots for voice switching and a 3-way switch.
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I’ve been trying to educate myself so that I can change pickups at home instead of getting ripped off by dishonest music shop employees. This was the best and most clarifying video regarding the subject that I’ve found on RUclips. You did an excellent job breaking it all down in a simple manner. Well done and thank you
its very simple once you understand the basics, i have been doing this since i was a teen. usually for barter and tips . its NOT as complicated as the guitar shops make it out to be
its too easy bro, just get a basic wiring diagram for basic pickups and check in the brand pickups page the manual of the diagrams, the hardest part its not to burn your fingers and thats very complicated to happen haha
yes specially these days where everyone raised their prices through the roof..
This video was more helpful than what Fishman provides. I can actually wire mine up. Thanks, Daniel.
Hey Joe,
Good to hear this video provided you with some useful information.
Good luck with the wiring.
You, Sir, deserve a Medal for being brilliant in explaining these PUs! Thank you for this video!
This is the best explanation to guitar electronics I've ever seen in my life. Not only I finally understood how to wire fluences but I also learned a couple tricks to properly solder pots and switches. You sir deserve all the recognition there is.
Thanks a lot. I use to live in the Netherlands for about 6 years, and your voice made me feel at home. I'm about to put a pair of Fishman Fluence Modern pickups in a Les Paul Tribute model I bought a while back. I'm very excited for a little added gain from the Les Paul. Ingoing to watch your video a few more times as I go through the included parts (mine came with a three way switch). I'll set myself up at my work bench, with everything layer out, including the wiring diagram. Then I'll take it step by step. Thanks so this video. If your ever in Scheveningen, drop by the Zahara Cocktail Bar on the beach, Gunnar is the owner. A beautiful view of the ocean and nice place to relax with Holland best cocktail menu.
I try to take in any and everything about amps and guitars not just playing a guitar but to know the woods ,the wiring,the different bridges,the ohms, pre and power modes of a amp and how it powers up and distributes power... I like to watch and learn from people who know their stuff !!!! Music is my life's blood my reason for existing I seem to suck at everything else except music 😮🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟thanks for making a video like this for people like me and the world to see 🎉
This is exactly what I needed. I wish all tutorial videos were as clear and concise as yours. I like how you use all the different colors, as it would be easy to get lost in there, and you explain the why, not just the how. Great work sir, thank you!!
That has to be the best wiring tutorial I've seen. Very precise and informative, good job.
An excellent, well-organized, and very informative tutorial. Thank you so much!
I have purchased a set of the Fishman Fluence pickups to install in a PRS SE Custom 24. I have never installed pickups before, but after watching your video I have the confidence to try. I know it won't be as easy as you make it look, but I am determined to make the custom 24 sound good. Thank you for making this video....I'll let you know how my project turns out.
Simple and to the point, very well explained. Thank you sir
This is brilliant, I am putting a set into my guitar and I was terrified but you made it make sense! Appreciate it man, thanks for sharing.
This video has taught me so much! Thank you for taking the time to make this!
This is one of the best tutorials on pickup installation I have seen!
Fantastic job and super clean. Well done
Best pickup installation video I ever watched. Very nicely explained 🤘
Thank you for producing these videos.. very helpful
Thank you this explanation was fantastic.
This is the best video! Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
You are always so precise and straight forward. It makes it very easy to follow.
Hi Mr. Maffles,
Thank you once again for your compliments.
this is exactly what I was looking for absolutely 💯
This is very helpful, thanks!
This was very helpful, thank you 🤘
This was really helpful. I’m searching for info on wiring a single volume pot (push pull) and a 3 way selector to a pair of Fishman 8 string pups. No tone pot.
So far I haven’t found this so watching videos like this helps clarify and explain a lot of things and helps me understand the fundamentals a bit better.
Rock on!
Excellent video, thank you.
Great Googley Moogley! THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!
Fantastic video, and you did a great job explaining how to go about this. Obviously it's not always simple to solder in confined spaces especially for me with large bass player hands LOL.
Wonderful clear and concise tutorial. Thank you very much. Just subscribed. Great channel!
Hi Klextacy,
Thank you very much and welcome to the channel.
I am new to your channel ive been wanting to get these pickups i love how you explained the wiring of these now i have an idea on how to install them … great video 👍
thank you very much for this information
Very clear and useful tutorial !!
Hi Guido,
Thank you very much for the compliment.
i love the way you explain in detail why and how they work and where they go an awesome job i love your work the guitar you did for the great guitar build off is phenomenal beautiful inlay work too
Hi Finaljesus,
Thank you very much. I really appreciate it.
It's good to know my style of explaining is helpful. I always feel knowing why is more important than the how. If you know why something is done a certain way the "how" becomes much easier.
@@UnquendorGuitars that is true if you know how something works it’s much easier to try it thank you again for all of your hard work
Great video sir
Great video!! Just got a set of Fishman Classic Open Coils, witchcraft switch, PRs Se locking tuners, and an PRs Se 245 standard. Major upgrade about y to o happen. Also bought a soldering station, and everything else I need. Thanks for the excellent demo!!! I’m going to practice on empty pop cans and tabs first.
Great video
This is my next build.
So, because I play the bass, I've made only bass guitars.
Someone has asked me to make them a six-string electric guitar. My biggest fear was messing up these expensive, but worth every penny, pickups. Fishman pickups are requested.
Now I have a better understanding of the installation of an electric six-string guitar.
Thanks for the tutorial.
Hi Greg,
Thank you very much.
Nice to heart my tutorial was helpful to you.
Good luck with the build.
Ooh I'm glad to see this. I have a set that I wanna use in a tele build I'm working on, but I'll only be using 2 pots. Might include mini toggles for the hf filter and gain toggle
Hi MrKrazyKap,
Thank you.
On my other guitar model I also use just 2 pots. Nice thing is you can use the two provided push-pull pots for the volume and tone control.
Good luck with installing the pickups.
Ordered a set of these for an Ibanez 421. Only has one volume and one tone... Think I noticed a wiring guide for that specific setup in the booklet. I was kind of wondering what I was gonna do when you popped open the box and there's 4 pots... Good information and helped make sense of what I look forward to.
Thank you!
excellent explanation !! I always had doubts about the cable that goes on the bridge, I hope to see a video of that!
Just need a ground wire that makes contact to the base or posts of the bridge :)
@@MrKrazyKap 🤘🏻
Hi Julian,
Thank you very much.
I have been working on a video on whether or not to ground a guitar bridge, but it became such a technical and in depth video on electrical engineering it could become even more confusing. I'm still thinking on how to put it in such a format it's not only informative but somewhat enjoyable to watch at the same time.
Great instruction and great graphics! I notice you said there are additional capabilities for these pickups. I got the McRocklin which are slightly modified from the Open Core classics. Curious if there are any capabilities other than 5-way or hard-wiring one of the voicings? The rest is covered I think. I don't need a 5-way, and don't want to hard wire the voicings. But I'm curious if you meant there is some additional configuration that could be interesting?
Hi Daniel, I have a set of Seymour Duncan's with a Blackout Modular Preamps on my guitar but my bridge pickup is screwed and I have a Fishman Fluence Classic Humbucker Neck pickup and I don't know if I can make this combination. I have one volume and one tone. Great video, you are very talented explaining and I love the diagrams.
My kit didn’t come with grounding wire. What type of wire do I need
Video is good to know how they are hooked up but I’m try to find out how to hook them up in a Dean XV it has two volumes pots an one tone . Don’t know how to hook them up this way with one tone hope u could help
What type of wire did you use in the prep phase for grounding the pots?
Hi Daniel, excellent tutorial, as usual! If I would want put a led indicator (as in eletric acustics guitars), I would put it on the negative line (-) of the battery in the direction of the output jack, I am right?
Hi Adrien,
Thank you very much.
If you want a 'Power On' indicator LED which turns on when you plug in the Guitar.
You need run a wire from the + on the battery to a resistor, check the required value for the LED you're using, and connect the resistor to the anode (long leg). Connect the cathode (short leg) to the common ground in the guitars circuitry. The Plug on the guitar lead will now act as a switch when you plug in the guitar. Connecting the battery - with ground in your guitar circuitry.
Alway test this with the pickups disconnected... just in case...
Good luck
Awesome Explanation!! one question, are just supposed to leave the Ground not connected on the voicing sections?
Hi Zierim,
Yes.
When you use switches or push/pull pots to switch between voicings you can leave the indicated ground connection points unused.
You can connect the voice selection connection to any part of the grounding circuit in the guitar to activate that voicing.
However..... Fishmann provides small jumper connectors with the sets if you want the pickup to always be in a particular voicing without switching.
Let's say you want them to alway be in voicing 2 you can put the jumper between the voice 2 connection and it's ground point on the pickup itself.
Do the sets come with the grounding wires? I've got a set coming in today and I'm hoping to find out what I need to buy to make it work. Got the iron and wire cutters and strippers
How do you talk which pickup is o ridge and which pickup is neck?
Nice video. I am not a wiring expert. I wonder - are you willing to share wiring for Fishman fluence, selector switch + volume push pull pot (voicing selections for both pickups) + tone push-pull (coil split for both pickups)? Best regards!
Is there a single vol single tone option?
I get most of this, except I'm getting a strat with 1 humbucker and 2 single coil pickups and I never use the tone pots so I was just thinking of taking them out and just having 1 volume pot but how would I go about that?
how would this work with 1 volume 1 tone?
Will it work with Fluence Modern ??? Thanks
I have no choice to not include the volume and tone volume but in the diagram the killswitch pickups came with, the first one shows that the volume is controlled by one pull pot and tone with the other. so I think I'm ok only using the 2 right?
I like to leave my guitar plugged in at home. So would it be valid to use one of the push pull pots as a master control selector for voice 1 and two and in the other push pull pot, having a ground wire and the battery terminal so that it is only powered when the pot is in a certain position. Would there be any reason to not do it this way?
Another question, here assuming that a stereo jack is used for the battery connection: in a guitar with two pots and a 3 way blade selector, what would be the best possible way to get all the Fishman options? By that I mean:
1. Switching between voice 1 and voice 2
2. Using the coil splits vs the full humbucker
3. Engaging the HF-Tilt function (perhaps redundant with a tone knob)
4. 6 dB output drop on voice 1
5. Switching between neck/bridge/both
My guess is that the simplest would be to keep using the blade switch that is already installed for pickup selection, use one push pull pot for coil splits, the other one for voice 1 and 2. And wire in separate 2 pole toggle switches for hf tilt and 6dB drop
Excellent!!. I wonder if the Devin Towsend Fishman can be installed in the same way?
Hi Daniel,
I haven't installed any Devin Towsend pickups myself, but the principle should be the same for all Fluence style pickup sets.
@@UnquendorGuitars Thanks friend.
If Im using a guitar with only one volume knob, no tone knob with 3 way switch I dont use the capacitor?
What if i only have enough for 3 holes? i have a LTD EC-400
Hi from Colorado! I need a diagram to wire just one fluence classic humbucker to the fluence volume and pull tone pot to output jack with 9V battery. My guitar has only one humbucker. Fish man doesn’t provide any diagram for this application. Thank you!
My only question is… what gauge wire do you use? Or! Can you use the excess wire from the pickups for the other connections?
Nice tutorial. Is it possible to omit the 2nd volume pot and just use 1 volume and 2 tones? Thanks
Hi B H,
Yes you can just use 1 Volume and 2 Tone pots.
Just keep in mind to put the three way switch between the Volume and the Tone pots.
You can use the the push/pull pots for the tone controls and voice switching.
At 4:20 what kind of wire are you using to ground the pots?
I plan to buy these soon, though for my setup it's a single vol and two tone.
Hi Thomas,
On my other guitar model I also have a single volume and single tone control. The nice thing is you can use the provided push-pull pots for both volume and tone control.
Ok that was good.
I'm still a bit confused on how tone pots work, but I probably would leave the tone controls out of the circuit completely.
excellent tutorial, I have a question, I have search a way to install the fishman pickups on my guitar that only has one tone pot and one volume pot plus the 3 way pickup switch, the fishman webste doesn’t have this info, is any way you can help with some tips, thanks a bunch, cheers
Hello Marz,
My Nessa guitars also only have 1 volume and one Tone pot with a 3-way switch.
Wire the 'hot' circuit the same as you would for regular pickups. PU's->3-way->Volume/Tone->Output
Use the provided 25K push/pull pots both as Volume and Tone pot and use the P/P for voice switching the same as I explain in this video.
@@UnquendorGuitars excellent, thanks a bunch, blessings!!!
@@UnquendorGuitarsi have to replace the pickup switch selector for a DPDT style switch, but there are no diagrams on how to connect this to a 2 hum bucker, one tone and one volume for classics, any thoughts would be apreciated
Where does a coil tap wire go?
I wish you would have shown installation of the universal battery pack
Hi Darth Slater,
I haven't used the battery pack yet unfortunately, but when I do I'll make sure to make a video about it.
Thank you for the suggestion.
So if I'm using a set of moderns, I can just disregard the single coil wiring and wire each pickup voice selection to its own push/pull correct?
Hi Fast Hands,
Yes you can. Or you can combine, let’s say, both neck and bridge pickup voice 2 selection to a single push/pull pot or switch.
it looks like you direct mounted the pickups on the cavity. did you put foam on the back of the pickups over the connectors and drill out the bushes?
Hi Feeltheforce77,
I always use pickup rings to mount the pickups.
To direct mount these pickups I would suggest putting some foam in the pickup cavity. Carefully remove the threaded inserts from the pickups and use some springs or silicone tubing over the mounting screws you're using to mount the pickups.
Hey man i know its crazy to ask if you'd do this but i can't find a wiring diagram anywhere on only that would should me how to wire these with a 3 way toggle switch. 1 master volume ,1 master tone and a dpdt switch for the hft. Is that even possible? i mean i have enough holes to have two tones and a volume if needed. I know its a lot to ask but you seem like the person to ask
or not a dpdt switch just any kinda switch to toggle it
Hi Devlin,
I think I haven't made a detailed video about this, but my other guitar model (the Nessa) has a master Volume and master Tone with 3-way switch using the Fishmann Modern Humbuckers.
The way to do this is to use the 'regular' 1 Volume 1 Tone wiring scheme for the 'Pickup/sound part' (Pickups output -->3-way switch --> Volume & Tone pots) .
You can use the Push/Pull pots included with the Fishman sets both as volume and tone pot and use these for the voice switching and use any switch for the Hf-Tilt. Both the voice switching and the HF-Tilt can be switched on/off by connecting it to the common ground.
Connected to ground = on. Any switch will do the job. Be aware though that some voicings 'overrule' others. (voicing 2 overrules voice 1 etc) keep this in mind when connecting the selection wires to the switches.
Is it Same wire Logic for the modern? Can i Change the classics to modern without new wireing?
Hi Sebastian,
The wiring principle is the same and you can swap the Classics for the Modern Humbuckers without changing the wiring, but the voice switching will be different as the Moderns have different voices. Gain reduction and/or HF-Tilt instead of Single Coil mode.
how is the battery secured inside the cavity
Hi Gurup.
In my case with a custom made bracket, but there are clips and special battery holders available.
Are these the Fishman's with the single coil ability? If so, don't those require a 5-way selector?
Hi Andrew,
Yes they are. And no they don't require a 5-way selector. The only thing the need is a way to connect the 'single coil selection input' to ground. In that case the pickup will operate in Single coil mode.
However, there is a possibility on the Fishman pickups to acces the coil connections directly via solder points at the back. Using these you're able to wire them like 'normal' 4 wire pickups and have the additional voice switching if I'm not mistaken.
These pickups are so versatile it's almost impossible to list all the possibilities.
But long answer made short. No you don't need a 5-way selector. any switch will do.
Hello, if I want to swap those fishman with Emgs. Do its possible with the same fluence wiring. Those emgs are het set. Help appreciated. Tia.
Hi Aakaash,
You can use the same principal to wire the EMG HET set with the exception of the 'voice switching' . EMG doesn't have that.
Also the connectors of these two brands are not compatible.
If I'm not mistaken the EMG HET set comes with it's own pots', wires, etc. and has an (almost) solderless system. (Plug and Play)
@@UnquendorGuitars Thanks buddy....
Am I the only one who wires up all the features like the HFT?
I have the new 3 voice moderns and had so 10 wires per pup to solder.
I received a rare guitar today from a famous guitarist but he had it setup with only the one volume pot thats push/pull and one pickup, no toggle or tone connected. Its the carpenter 7 string fishmans in it. Its turned into such a chore that it took all the wind out of my sails. The guitar has a 2nd 25k pot in it along with an emg volume pot and a 3 way toggle thats different from any ive messed with before. The neck pickups missing the voice/ground quick cnct cable altogether but i have an emg power one thats too short. Its killed my joy in getting it and people are saying to get a refund or partial refund. I just want it to work 100%.
For a 1 volume 1 tone guitar would I still need the push pull pot?
Hi Frank,
If you like to make use of the voice switching capabilities of these Fishmann pickups you do.
Or use micro switches or some other way to switch the voicings on and off.
Luckily Fishmann provides everything you need, incl. the pots, in their sets.
ay up
I am right at this stage...and I hate it. 🤣 Have you any experience with solderless pickups and wiring? I like the idea because there is a...b, c, d and e: no soldering and f: it makes it easy to change things around when the mood takes. I liked this video too. Very clear...except for all the soldering🤣
Hi Simon,
I've used the EMG 'solderless' system before. If you have enough room in the control cavity and the holes from cavity to cavity are wide enough to fit the connectors it works beautifully. The only thing that might need soldering is the output jack and the pickup switch.
Are you having trouble with the soldering itself? Or on where to connect the wires?
The main trick I found with soldering is making sure the soldering iron is hot enough.
Thanks for your response. I'm very new to this soldering business so whilst I got 90% of my electrics done ok, I made a right mess of one pickup's wiring, gave up and sent it to a professional solderer to sort out. That guitar set up is only a volume, tone and 3 way. How I'll get on with a Firebird's electrics, I have no idea🤣.
I’m guessing but if your guitar only has 3 pots can you wire them with only that many?
Yes.
You can use these pickups with ‘any’ number of pots or switching configuration.
The supplied pots are suitable to be used as volume or tone pot.
You can choose which controls you want as push/pull for the voice switching.
@@UnquendorGuitars Oh Ok AWESOME! Thank You for clearing that up for me. I was always worried that if I got them that I would need to make another whole for another pot. Thank You! I really appearciate it! Next stop purchasing!
So basically I just need to grab an epiphone prophecy and leave my bullseye alone 🤣 informative video though!
Way too complicated for me. I wonder how much it would cost me to pay a professional at a guitar store or shop? Anyone know?
I honestly don't get why people struggle with the wiring it's quite simple it is literally labeled on the pickup where to put each wire
I'm missing your videos cause you changed you thumbnail designs!
Hi Guitars Amps & Pedals,
Oh.. no... that's not good...
If I may ask you a question for me to learn something.
Do you rely on a specific thumbnail style/look to identify a channel or creator?
I'm always questioning myself wether or not my thumbnails look good and set my channel apart enough.
For these tutorials I thought to change things up a little, but this might have been a wrong decision.
Did you prefer the 'old' look?
@@UnquendorGuitars Hi Daniel, I recognised your original thumbnails because they all had the same style of font and your guitars look unique and recognisable. The last 2 are very different looking so I didn't associate them with Unquendor Guitars! I'm not an authority on this stuff but, I have been studying RUclips for a number of years and I have noticed some of the things the successful RUclipsrs do all of the time! Your Logo is cool and would have stood out if you'd featured it (Big and bold) in the thumbnail, also, all of the aforementioned YT's use their own image in the thumbnail, (every time, without fail). Your subscribers will click because of you, and then the algorithm will respond to the click through rate (very important otherwise no-one knows your video even exists). The virality of your most viewed video (Morinessa) will tell you how to reach your audience, what they liked and didn't like, and when they got bored, and the thing I see straight away in that thumbnail is your brand. The analytics will tell you the rest! Again I'm no authority but I've spent (far too much) time looking into this. I really like your videos, as I said before they're the best tutorials I've seen since Fletchers. Hope what I've said is useful to you, I admire what you're doing and know how much work goes into making videos and how much it sucks when they don't get watched very much,
Matt!
@@MattsGAP
Hi Matt,
Thank you so much for your elaborate reply and tips.
Like most of us here on RUclips I have a hard time getting a grasp on what attracts the viewer to click on a video and watch it.
And sometimes the analytics seem to contradict what is frequently talked about in all those "How to improve" videos.
A good example is like you said my "Morinessa" video, which is doing great and the "Sonea build" which is not. Both have a similar thumbnail, title and description and that video isn't doing great at all in comparison.
I will take your advice to heart and try to maintain as consistent of a Thumbnail 'style' as possible and see where it goes. It is very helpful to hear how you are perceiving my channel.
Thank you.
Daniel.
@@UnquendorGuitars As far as I can tell there will always be a hit and miss element to it and if you look at any channel they get the same disparity of views. Ben Crowe said something really interesting a while ago about how Diresta appeals to a huge audience because they're universal with no language barrier, I think your Morinessa video has that appeal and so does the Sonea, strange that one out performed the other like that!
What’s the point of quick connects if you still have to solder?
Yet here we are, still with no video on how to wire these to a guitar with one volume and tone knob. You know, LIKE 90% OF FUCKING GUITARS HAVE!