When you first glimpse the Gristlemaster, it is as if some eldritch dark magic compels your eyes to fix themselves on the small button between the volume and tone knobs. Do not resist, for this button is the secret to the Gristlemaster's immense power. It's part of Greg Koch's Signature Gristle-Tone Fishman Fluence pickups, and it allows the Gristlemaster to cover a wide swath of tonal territory.
If you're not familiar, Fishman's Fluence pickups use an innovative design that promotes versatility, fixes a few annoying problems, and generally makes for an ideal playing experience. Basically, the coils are printed on a circuit board rather than wound around a bobbin. Forty-eight of these circuit boards form one Fluence Core, and each pickup has two Cores. This new-fangled design is sure to delight you when you plug in. There's almost no hum, and the guitar responds to your touch just a hair faster.
But, most importantly, the Fluence core design allows you to have TWO tones in one pickup. That's where the aforementioned eldritch button comes in. Because of this small metal circle, the Gristlemaster is a shapeshifter that can go back and forth between two of the greatest single-coil sounds in the history of recorded music.
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