Tosin Abasi on His Fluence Signature Pickups from Fishman | Reverb Interview
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Former passive pickup devotee Tosin Abasi (Animals as Leaders, Reflux) has been using his Fluence signature pickups from Fishman lately. They bring pickup technology into the modern age, and offer up the clarity and variety of tones today's guitarists deserve.
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That clean tone is to die for. Also, glad to see Tosin emphasizing so much on his clean tones amidst other 8 string guitarists who just want to djent on that lowest string all day long.
@juna wood agreed, other good examples would be josh martin or roopam garg
Well, you have seen him play clean lol, hardly anyone can keep up with Tosin. Take deep thumping as well, still, hardly any other guitarists in the 8 string metal world shredding with their right hands. Pure talent and he is humble and appreciates the artistic element in his discussion
Check out Ichika Nito's 7 string and 8 string songs. Most unique stuff on 7+ string guitars.
Check these out Circle, A bell is not a bell, Flowers, Resolution, Lonely Again and the list goes on.
So refreshing to hear a guitarist promoting modern, technological thinking. Like a scientist among homeopaths!
It's so crazy, you often see guys demoing their signature gear and like yeah sure it sounds like them playing but it's never anything you weren't expecting. When you hear these playing clips, it sounds like Tosin. Partially due to his technique and unique style, obviously, but these tones sound like the *produced* tones off the records. That kind of blew my mind.
4:30 I didn't expect it to sound like an active Jazz Bass. So versatile. Every sound you might think of, he can get out of these pickups :D
Same thing I thought LOL
His right thumb haunts my nightmares
Seriously though. I wish I had a hitchhiker thumb like that. Would make it way easier to play with the guitar strapped real low.
was about to say the exact same thing, it freaks me the fuck out
I think i have the same thumb curve when i play guitar. Makes me proud :D even tho i can't play for shit like Tosin-senpai does...
I heard he thumped a female bout a year ago and she’s still busting nuts
Yea... it makes this strange 90 degree bend...
These sound fucking incredible
*This sound is fucking incredible
Failure is not an option I was talking about the pickups so my grammar was correct
I want to feed you your own keyboard keys one by one.
miad Nope the pickups make no sound, just current flow.. it's everything toghether that makes the sound.
His thumb is so bent and I can't tell if that's from consistent playing or hes just blessed. Probably blessed then capitalized on his natural talent. All hail Tosin
Hitchhiker thumb. I got it too.
It's genetic
The cleans from his pickups are unreal. The single-coil sounds have so much spank with no shrill
These pickups sounds amazing. Tosin is so damn good it's not even fair.
Just a guitarrist with a bassist mindset of building the sound from the actual instrument, not outboard gear.
I can listen to him talk and play all day.
Wow! They sound incredible and really compliment his playing, it’s a sweet set! *also, mind bending playing*
Man Tosin is like the Victor Wooten of progressive metal.
he is one smart dude. I could listen to him play and talk about music all day
I just ordered my first 8 string, I've been playing guitar since I was 10 so 22 years now and have always played 6 string and I bought a very cheap 7 string like 2 years ago to try it out and loved it but I wanna go deeper down the extended range rabbit hole lol and I've loved listening to Animals as Leaders for years now and love listening to Tosins playing and I made the jump. I got an Agile Chiral Nirvana headless 8 string model and cannot wait for it to come in.
Beautiful tones as always.
Got to meet this man at a show with Animals and Devin Townsend. Top notch player that's also super nice and insightful to talk to
jesus that tone.... that playing..... :O
I have Fishmans in my 7 String Hipshot ESP and they’re by far the best pickups I have ever played..
Seems like a lot of people are using Fishman's these days. I always thought that they only made acoustic pickups, but i never really looked into them tbh. I have to admit, these sound really damn good.
He’s Nigerian like me, GANG 🇳🇬👏🏾 and VERY TALENTED and EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT PERIODTTTT
Damn the volume staying consistent on the voicing changes is brilliant! That's always been my only complaint with coil tapped or split pickups. How did they wire them to achieve consistent volume?
I got the stephen carpenter set a year or two ago and they are great. These would definently be my next active but right now I'm in the passive market.
So it's not how they wire it that keeps the volume consistent, it's the pickups themselves. They're not wound at all. Instead, they run off circuit boards in the pickups that allow for silence, consistent volume, and most of all, multiple voicings.
In other words, a digital pickup.
@@SDF5150 nope, still analog. Analog pedals and tube amps all use circuit boards too. Having a PCB doesn't mean it's digital.
I love how this comment section is half "awesome pick ups, awesome guitarist" and the other half just wants tosin to fucking enter them. I happen to be the latter
I’m both
That Ibanez was just...WOW!
I really wish Fishman would release Tosin's set in more colors than black. I would really like it with gold covers.
Chrome or stainless steel is the best finish for a pickup in my opinion :)
That reverb sound is crazy
Hearing those sound bites had me contemplating about a potential Modern Day Babylon collab where Tosin's just strumming chords and MDB djents over them
Matthew Ramroop yeah that would be an insane collab!
WoOw m@n this Ibanez 8 strings Multiscale seems to have been designed by AliEns
The coolest PU setup i ever heard in my liFe ...its so advanced !!! (adding the shimmering trails)
“And so there’s that..” Yes Tosin, there it is.
That's a crazy looking guitar, but it sounds really good though. Can't wait for the next animals as leaders record to come out.
I love his assessment at the end about the mythos of classic guitar gear. It's funny that he makes himself laugh, because it's true!
as far as his gear and such, I tend to see eye to eye with tosin.
my fav players all use passives as well. (frequency response is the key!)
from the design of this new 8 string, to pickups, and tone opinions and others.
what he is doing is making sense to me, in fact, i had the same opinions and then watched some of his vids........and I'm just like YEAH! I've been trying to tell people this, i agree! lol
I like tosin's understanding off bass guitar. Even though Animal's as Leaders doesn't have a bassist the amount of information and also inspiration he draws from bass really shows how different (and cooler) bass is to guitar.
something i never noticed about tosin, even when meeting him at a clinic. hes one of my favorite players, hes a great influence on me, so try not to take offence. LOOK AT HIS THUMB WHEN HES HOLDING HIS PICK, HOW DOES IT BEND SO MUCH????
William Clatone Double jointed
Wow he's really good at everything depicted in this video haha... even describing sounds!
He changes pickups a lot
Money money money. It's all about the money
i don't think hes changed his pups at all since this comment x3
@@andigunter6818still correct
I honestly might have to toss a set of these in my PRS. The possibilities are endless...
I'm definitely getting these to replace the moderns that will be coming in the guitar I'm buying.
They just sound so much clearer and the cleans are far better.
Im thinking of doing the same. How were they compared with the moderns?
Tosin: "I'm no mix engineer"
Could've fooled me! 🙌
What is he playing at 2:18 right before the C#m7add#5 it sounds like a C#sus2 but a little different. It also looks a little different but i can figure it out. But going from C#sus2 to C#m7add#5 sounds really nice. But maybe the first chord hes playing is a C#sus2/D? It sounds right and also looks more like what hes playing. Anyone?
Amaj7#4 but he isn't playing the root or 5th so we hear C#sus2, he is also doubling up on the G# (A̸ , G#, C#, D#, G#). C#sus2/D sounds wrong and I think you were correct in your initial thought of C#sus2, He is fingering the Amaj7#4 but keep in mind the same finger he is using for the low A, he is also using to mute the what would be an open D (which maybe made it look like he was using D but is just being muted) due to using a Amaj 'shell' voicing which omits the 5th, going 1,7,3, and then using his forefinger to bar the high B and E strings giving a #4,7.
I love you Tosin. I'd let you have me if you wanted...
Jake's Place uhh wtf
Jake's Place let me have you baby
Blimey. This guy is awesome.
what most guitarists do to get their clean tones is use a low gain channel and roll back on the volume on the guitar. I personally prefer to use a channel switch to the clean to get those beautiful chimey tones
Holy shimmer
What is this reverb? The last riff is beautiful :)
Not huge into Ibanez’s tones but, damn that thing fucks.
i swear im not gay but like...
saaaaaame
Reliable...
#gayfortosin
Hell no..How did that shit get normalized anyway?Same thing happened a while back and the creator turned everything to salt.
Yo same
THIS SHIT IS INSTRUCTIONAL IT'S MIND BLOWING GET YOUR TECHNIQUE RIGHT HOLLAR AT THIS SHIT
BRRRRA
As an amateur builder ,im always interested in new and different. Thankyou
This is the demo of these I've finally been waiting for...but FFS they don't make them in non-soapbar sizings! UGH!!~!
So unfair. haha! Tosin is a stud.
4:27 "that sounds sick"
4:30 "oOhHHHhH"
Tosin is an alien from another planet.
no just practices and dedicates time to his skill. i assure you he is very much human.
When Tosin started tapping, the video suddenly started to lag... Coincidence?
I want to hear the diablo 2 soundtrack rearranged and re-recorded with these cleans.
Such a cool guy with a fu**ing great guitar you are
God I want that bass...
And then I just realized its not a bass... God I want that guitar...
They gotta make a set for an rg9!
You can request a 9 string custom version of it from Fishman on their website
Sounds like great pickups! Are they made for sin strings guitars also?
Do you guys think these or classic open cores would do jazz better. For that beefy midrangey sound?
I think you should go with the tosins! Super nice cleans.
Thank you! I ended up going with them and I’m in love with them.
No problem 👌🏽
You okay man?
Tosin Abasi, how are these vs Q-tuners vs Lace deathbar? What's best of the best in your opinion.
Thanks man!
What galaxy is he from?
3:19 is he correct on this? The Fishman wiring diagrams say that position 4 is the outer coil of the neck humbucker, not the inner coil
I think he misspoke--everything I've seen and read indicates it's the outer coil, which would make sense because Frank Falbo (one of the lead R&D engineers on the Fluence line, who posts at the Seymour Duncan forum) said Tosin's neck pickup actually has two different magnetic circuits. It's the outside coil that actually has individual alnico pole pieces like a Strat pickup, precisely so that you can split to it and get authentic single coil tones.
Best dressed guitarist awards goes to
What pedals does he use
Look up guitar center tosin abasi on UA-cam, they did a few videos on his home rig
Ax8 and boomerang
Axe fx
You should check out their 2017 gear rundown
leyend!!
It’s ironic that even though there is no bass player in Animals, because 8 strings, they still have bass on their albums. 🤣
Sooo... who's got a good pickup line?
What's that reverb he's using??
What reverb is that?
he fucking loves shimmer reverb lol
These pickups sound like something Les Paul would've really appreciated.
What's he doing in 2020?
does anyone know if you can buy these pickups in white or any other color then black?
the tosin fluences*
For 8 strings? IDK, I know the six string versions of these come in all different colors.
Song in beginning?
4:27 I shit myself
What type of amps are those
Tosin Abasi.
What amp is that?
4:30 😁
Do they come in 6-string?
Yup
4:10 is that one of their songs?
Nvm, I'll just slow down the video and try to figure it out
Tempting Time
Nicholas McCullough thx
do they come in 6 string config?
Yes, 7 as well
@@Cestariarts awesome! thank you
helps with briliance? Yeah my body is ready
Nice, but almost none of this works if you change the wiring. For example on a 3 way switch you lose A LOT of volume if you split coil, disappointing as fuck.
I am a sinner, whose probably gonna sing again
11,400th view and 410th like.
Every body in this comment section sounds like the commenters on a female guitarists vid. Y’all need to stop being a perv I general.
Barack Barack
cool about your pickups and all, but fucking release your guitar please
I know right? That guitar has been a "prototype" for like going on 2+ years now, and Ibanez discontinued his previous model last year...so wtf lol. If you go to Tosin's page on Ibanez's website there aren't any models available!
its never going to be released he dropped ibanez, all about abasi guitars now
The bass sound is great, but the higher tones are tinny and sound like a sythesizer. I'd stick with the traditional sound of Tele or Strat!!!
Good guitarist, but hands down the most irritating sound... The complexity of a veteran, but the almost as irritating as say... Korn.
irritating how?
he is not yngye malmsteen
All this shit dont matter if youre not a good guitar player