SC-550 With Fluence Pickups: the Single Cut Classic Goes Active


Launches 17.09.2026
The SC-550 Plus has always known how to wear a flame top well. Now it's getting some fire under the hood, too, with a pair of Fishman Fluence Classic humbuckers. Active, noiseless, multi-voice pickups, which turn one tone into several.

Triple Voiced Humbuckers

Where a standard SC-550 Plus gives you one tone knob per pickup, the Fluence humbuckers offer multiple pickup voices, selected via push/pull. Voice 1: classic humbucker. The neck delivers a moderate-output humbucker voicing with warm mids and a smooth top end; the bridge matches it with a calibrated, vintage humbucker voice. Voice 2: the neck splits into a clear and airy chime while the bridge turns hot-rodded, aggressive and built for drive. Voice 3: both pickups drop into single-coil for a full, clean vintage single-coil voice. Voicing is controlled via volume for bridge and neck, plus push/pull tone controls for the neck (Voice 2) and bridge (Voice 3), and a 3-way switch for pickup selection.

Same Shell, New Engine

The rest of the guitar is the SC-550 Plus at its best. Okoume body with an AA flame maple top, set nyatoh neck in a 1960 C profile, roasted jatoba fingerboard, 22 Blacksmith stainless steel medium jumbo frets, graphite nut, WSC LP17 Tune-O-Matic bridge, and WSC Schaller-style J07 locking tuners. The same SC-550 Plus we know and love, with a smarter, more versatile engine. Made for rockstars who love the SC-550 Plus shape and feel but want a pickup system that can go from a clean, single-coil-clear to a hot-rodded lead tone without needing a pedal. Noiseless by design, battery powered and rechargeable, and voiced with three distinct pickup characters, the Fluence set makes this the most versatile SC-550 Plus yet. Part of our Deluxe Series and finished in Paradise Amber Flame and Faded Tobacco Flame.