Thank you for purchasing the Fishman Rare Earth™!
We are pleased to offer you the finest magnetic soundhole pickup available.
If you have any questions or comments, you may reach our Customer Service
Department at 978-988-9665 or E-mail us at tech@fishman.com.
The Rare Earth™ is a compact active magnetic soundhole pickup, designed
for most steel-string, flat top guitars. Its low profile design ensures that both
your picking style and the guitar’s acoustic tone will not be affected.
The natural sound of your acoustic guitar is reproduced by the Rare Earth™
thanks to state-of-the-art magnetic field/coil structure and advanced active
electronics. A unique arrangement of neodymium magnets is responsible for
the Rare Earth™'s excellent string balance and light weight. Neodymium (a
rare earth element, hence the name) has 10 times the magnetic strength of
ceramic magnets, which makes the Rare Earth™ smaller and lighter than
many traditional soundhole pickups. Each magnet in the Rare Earth™ is
voiced for precise balance with bronze or phosphor bronze acoustic guitar
strings.
Start Up
If you are like most people, you will probably want to plug in the Rare Earth™
right out of the box. Be our guest! To temporarily install the pickup, loosen
the clamps with a #1 Phillips screwdriver. Position the pickup in the sound-
hole, parallel to and as close to the end of the fingerboard as possible. Gently
re-tighten the clamps. For now, run the cable out through the soundhole.
If you plan to travel with your guitar or store it in its case for long periods with
the pickup in place, we strongly recommend that you have the endpin jack
and pickup professionally fit to the guitar according to the included
Installation Guide.
There are a few good reasons to do so:
1. If you store the guitar with the pickup cable outside the instrument and the
cable comes to rest on the guitar, the rubber jacket may interact with the
finish and leave a permanent mark.
2
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