duane bone (dot) com | Upgraded the Carvin CT6M with Fishman Fluence Pickups

Showing off my CT6M with some explanation of the upgrades including the Fishman Fluence modern humbuckers. All the additional wiring etc needed to get the maximum number of voice. Great guitar.

~ Tuesday, February 8, 2022 [ c4bc533 2025-05-16T03:24 ]

I upgraded my Carvin CT6M with some Fishman Fluence modern humbucker blacks. The original pickups where the Kiesel/Carvin Allan Holdsworth HH2 model. The new Fluences are the modern ceramic for the bridge and alnico for the neck. The bridge sound like a typical modern high-output humbucker. The alnico one sounds really interesting and very vocal. I enabled the second voicing using the push-pull tone knob. The volume push-pull controlls the coil-spit which enables the out-side cores on each pickup as single-coils. With the coil-tap, the neck sounds like a Strat with a bunch of vocal honk sound. Very bluesy.

UPDATE: Gave this one to a great friend. I hope he continues to play and enjoys it as much as I did.