Fishman FLUENCE TIM HENSON SIGNATURE Series User manual

FLUENCE TIM HENSON SIGNATURE SET
INSTALLATION GUIDE

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These instructions provide installation options for the Fishman Fluence series of multi-voice
pickups, but these instructions are not comprehensive. A skilled electronics technician
can simply interpret this overview to create a wide range of custom wiring options. Please
consult with your installer for alternate switching and control components or options not
specically detailed in this guide or included with your pickup purchase. Please visit www.
shman.com for additional wiring diagrams.
By self-installing and/or misusing this product, you understand and agree that and such uses
are high risk activities and, to the extent permitted by law, YOU EXPRESSLY AND VOLUN-
TARILY ASSUME THE RISK OF DEATH OR OTHER PERSONAL INJURY SUSTAINED WHILE
PARTICIPATING IN SUCH ACTIVITIES WHETHER OR NOT CAUSED BY THE NEGLIGENCE
OR ANY OTHER FAULT of Fishman, including but not limited to equipment malfunction from
whatever cause, or any other fault of Fishman. Additionally, you agree to indemnify, defend
and hold Fishman harmless from any third party claims arising from such activities
System Requirements
Installation Warning!

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1. Determine the rotary controls (Volume, Tone, etc.) and switches to be used in your
installation, including those included with your purchase. Test t the components to
make sure that each will t in the allocated locations or modify the instrument until the
t is correct and all controls can be located without issue. Fishman Fluence Pickups are
active and require 25K audio taper potentiometers.
2. Fishman Fluence multi-voice pickups require a 9V power supply.
• If using a standard 9V battery, test t cavity locations for simple installations or
consider installing an externally accessible battery compartment (available separate-
ly.) Note that it is important the battery is not allowed to short contacts between
controls in the instrument.
• If using a separately purchased Fishman rechargeable battery, refer to those
instructions to complete this part of your installation.
• Note that it may be possible to combine other active pickups with Fishman Flu-
ence pickups, but all pickups will need to use the same 9V power source. Only active
pickup combinations are supported.
Getting Started

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3. The various pickup voicing options are easily activated by connecting the cor-
responding control wires to Ground. Any of these options can be made switch select-
able using the included push-pull pots or other preferred switches. They can also be
permanently wired by either connecting to Ground or leaving “open” (unconnected).
See the “Connection Points and Functions” section for helpful details.
4. Review your planned scheme for errors, complete the soldering, mount and secure
all your components, and test your completed installation before assembly. Consider
a popular wiring option as shown on the reverse side of this guide or visit
www.fishman.com for additional wiring diagrams.

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Voice 1 Neck – Thick and smooth Neck Humbucker / Peak frequency – 3.5kHz
(first order rolloff)
Voice 1 Bridge – Aggressive, tight passive tone / Peak frequency – 1.65kHz
Voice 2 Neck – Hyper clean, faux acoustic/nylon surrogate – 9.5kHz, 450Hz
Voice 2 Bridge – Combination of Tim’s favorite Bridge Humbuckers / Peak fre-
quency – 2.3kHz, 480Hz
Voice 3 Neck – Tim’s fluid neck single coil / Peak frequency – 4.2kHz
Voice 3 Bridge – Tim’s ideal single coil combination tone when used in conjunc-
tion with neck coil / Peak frequency – 6kHz (designed for bridge & neck, neck
side coils)

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Fluence Tim Henson Signature Set – Connection Points & Functions
1. Voice-2 Select Wire - To select Voice-2, connect this pin to
ground through a switch contact or permanently by soldering it to
any ground or by using one of the included jumpers across the pins.
This pin is an electronically controlled switch and has no signal
on it. It can share a switch contact with other voice select wires
without interaction.
Note: the Single Coil / Voice-3 select pin (3) over rides Voice-2
select. Therefore, the Voice-3 pin must be disconnected (not
grounded) to allow Voice-2 selection.

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2. Single Coil / Voice-3 Select Wire - To select Voice-3, connect this
pin to ground through a switch contact.
In Single Coil mode, the default active coils are those closest to the neck (screw side
for neck and slug side for bridge). The Tim Henson signature set is designed such that
using the neck side coils from both pickups together will provide hum canceling. With
the standard wiring scheme, position-2 utilizes the Bride pickup in Single Coil / Voice-3
mode and combines with the Neck pickup screw side coil via the NCO & SCO solder
pads. See note (4) for details on the NCO & SCO solder pads.
When selected, Single Coil / Voice-3 mode overrides the status of Voice-1 or 2.

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3. Single Coil Mode Select - A row of three solder pads is used to select the active coil
in Single Coil / Voice-3 mode
The active coil is selected by a solder bridge connecting the corresponding outer pad
to the center one.
The pickups ship from the factory with the neck side coils set as the default. To change
the active coils to the bridge ones, remove the solder bridge and create a new one
from the other outer pad to the center. To avoid damaging the pads, solder wick or a
desoldering pump are strongly recommended for removing the solder bridge.
4. SCO Bridge Pickup (South Coil Out) - This solder pad is used to conveniently ac-
cess the south coil. This is used as an input for the neck NCO (North Coil Out) signal in
position-2 of 5-way switch wiring. It can also function as an output for HSH (Humbucker,
Single, Humbucker) and HSS pickup combinations using the Fluence SSA Single width.

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NCO (North Coil Out) - This solder pad is used for position-2 in 5-way switch wiring for
combining the neck north coil with the bridge south coil, utilizing the bridge preamp
in Voice-3.
5. +9-18V - This is the + dc power input pin. Fluence pickups are designed to have a
wide dynamic range running from a 9V supply, however they are 18V compatible for
instruments already set up that way.
6. Output - The main output pin has a 2k ohm output impedance and is suitable for
driving low impedance volume and tone pots, typically 25k.
Wiring diagrams are available at Fishman.com

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