Fluence vs. EMG vs. Seymour Duncan - Blindfold Pickup Challenge

i have lace sensor pickups on a strat and just bought LTD MH-1000 with EMGs. the EMGs are clearly high gain metal. the neck pick up on clean with reverb is amazing. the Seymour doesn't have the clarity and gain of the other two. it seems that guys that don't like metal gain and sound go for low power Seymours and people that love the heaviest sounds and clarity go for EMGs

I blindfold all my pickups so they can’t see what song I’m playing

Chappers!

I agree that the SD sounds more organic. However, it loses out a bit on the lows imo to the other two.

People, please buy low to mid output passive pickups. The tone gods demand so. Thanks!

FknA, Rob with the Chugga Chugga!!🤘🤘🤘🤘

wich model are the seymour duncan

chapman barf

I recently got a Shecter with a Fluence in the bridge and I agree, it is quite bright. It has a lot of high end, so much so that I turn down the treble on my amp, and keep the tone knob almost completely rolled off. It is pretty compressed and loves gain, but it sings. Also, the Fluence sounds great clean! They should have tested the clean tones a bit more.

I still don't get what people see or hear in Fishman pickups... I despise that sound lmao

The best way to do this is not let him see any of the guitars at all…because he knows if he picks up the esp they’ll have the emg pickups

dont get me wrong but i think he is touching the pickups.

I miss these kind of demos with you guys

Do you have the SH-1B in the neck or the bridge? This setup sounds amazing but couldn't figure out which you had where. Great video!

You amateurs couldn't even try the passive voice on the fluence pick-ups?

Hav is one surpurse to hear anything when he playes like that!

I like the JB but it is kind of noisy. The duncan distortion is near silent and I would choose it over the JB.
As for the actives I would go with the EMG. I really find the Fluence a very boring pickup. Fluence are so compreesed there is no dynamic range. Every strum sounds the same no matter how soft or hard you hit the string even if you use the taps for lower output.

That's nonsense. Look for ola's video playing the fishman... you'll want to buy them asap. The sound here is horrible

damn seymour duncans sounded like shit after the others...

I'm watching this 4 years later whatever happened to chappers?

Amazing that my absolute favorite guitar player, Greg Koch would make his mark on this video - from the lips of the Cap, to the agreeable mind of Chappers, I do believe we're in good company... Nobody does a demo like Greg!

Crank it!

Really cool. I don't know why Gretsch doesn't put filtertrons as standard on their affordable guitars. I think they'd sell more.

I like Blue. The Blue one sounds better because it is blue. Great demo, you make them all sound good.

It's amazing how much I didn't like third Fishman pickups and you see so many modern metal player with Fishman pickups now. The EMG and SD pickups I liked way more.

He hears, when you Catch the guitar, he now the place where they stand. This is shit. Made no sense!!!!

Those Duncans are great sounding for blues/rock. I love that guitar too! But the Fishmans, even though they can be a little grainy depending on what you are playing, have a certain clarity to them.

Idk they all sound amazing so it's truly hard to choose because all of them sound worth installing and using it really depends on what tone your ears truly prefer....I'm going with the Seymour Duncans this time lol😂❤❤❤🤟🤟🤟🤟😜😜😜😜

Chappers and The Captain both sound like nicknames someone gave themselves and insisted everyone called them by lol

I have these pickups on an Ibanez Gio that came with blackouts. The sound is insane, it's much louder and highs more gain and sustain

Duncans all the way for me. I just can't get the fizzy digital sound of actives out of my head; although I do have Fishman Moderns in one guitar and they're pretty good. Since seeing Satchel play Fluence Classics with great tone, I might try them in that guitar. Duncans just give a feel that my fingers are still doing all the talking with no digital interference.

I swear Rob was a guitar in his previous life…
How did he do that?!

Emg

I watched this vid on my nice monitor speakers. And for me, actually the SDs had a more natural tone, and, quite different to what most people might think, they got the most highs and mids. And that is what you need at doing metal. So I really question the existence of the rest. Despite the fishy ones being seemingly consistent with each and every delivery, and having a nice new technology.

but!!! What Pickup setup did you use for the SD variant? SD5 SD1? 404 coming from URL
EDIT: ok, got it by googling, sh 4 jb bridge, sh 1 at neck

Does anyone know what brand of SD they are using? They all sound really good but those Duncan's hit my ear the best. I just recently found this channel and I really enjoy the content. Good stuff guys 😎🤘

Take a set of warman 12 gauge at 45 quid any day 😂

Well, you could have just slightly and quickly touched the coils and guess it would be a Seymour Duncan pickup with like 99.9% probability.

You don't have an answer because you're using metal guitars and metal pick ups to play lame rock

They all sound very similar. But I imagine that they feel and respond differently in-hand when you're playing them.

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might actually consider those fluence pickups, damn they sound quiet and great

i have emgs and fluence pickups (2 different ltd arrows) and i freaking love the fishmans, but the emgs are great too. imo the fishmans sound a little more clear, but man i do love some emg 81s.

Yeah EMG's take the wobbliness of standard pickups out of the equation. Just straight tone. I just don't like the battery.

The Duncan JB/59 set will likely offer the broadest genre versatility. You can get sweet tones at the edge of breakup with the 59 neck pickup for blues and jazz styles and split the coils for even more stratty-esque play. I suspect this is where the Duncan JB/59 set shines over the other active sets. They all do high gain bridge pickup metal tones well.
A potential downside with the JB/59 set is the fact that the JB is 15k and the 59 is 8k. Way hotter bridge. So switching from bridge to neck to go from rhythm to lead has a volume and gain drop. It is not a balanced set and this can be a limitation for certain styles that will have you switching back and forth.

I’m curious why you guys didn’t use a set of active Blackouts? Of course the JB sounded good but it’s a passive JB.

Duncans, all the way!