Fishman rare earth p/u fine tuning

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Just installed a Fishman Rare earth only p/u in my Yairi. Sounds good but the high E and B are coming thru pretty hot. I shimmed the low side up a bit to even out the lows but its still a bit hot. I'm using John Pearse p/b type strings as they suggest. Anyone else experience this and what did you do to smooth it out?

[jricc]

You can cut down the cork on the treble side. That's about the only way I can think of. Hope this helps.

[Nick84]

I found nickel based strings such as Martin Retro and D’addario nickel bronze evened out the strings with a rare earth pup I had in a previous guitar.
I only discovered this by accident. I bought the guitar used and swapped out the PB strings for Retros which are my go to strings and it evened out the string balance.

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Thanks Nick84, I'll give it a try.

[jricc]

Originally Posted by Nick84

I found nickel based strings such as Martin Retro and D’addario nickel bronze evened out the strings with a rare earth pup I had in a previous guitar.
I only discovered this by accident. I bought the guitar used and swapped out the PB strings for Retros which are my go to strings and it evened out the string balance.

Great suggestion, i did this and it did help. I also shimmed up the bass side of the Fishman.