Kinman Broadcaster Noiseless Pickup Set

£189.00

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TK4 Harness availiable

Tributer Vintage 52

Kinman '60's LH Noiseless Pickups

Chris Kinman's Write-up:

Our advanced Patented technology makes Kinman the best Telecaster Zero Hum Noiseless pickup available.

The most defintive classic Tele* tone was made by the 1960's white-edgebound Custom Tele with single coils. These AVn-60 series pickups give you a Caricature sound of those very rare guitars that you can have for your Tele too. The 60's Custom set is bright but never thin, has improved focus, twang, dynamics and high end chime. Great for chickin pickin country lead or any other classic Tele style. The middle position of the switch sounds better than with original Telecaster pickups.

Imagine the very best Telecaster tone that you can remember; this set has more body & girth which means they never sound thin or excessively bright. The sound has very nice complex Alnico midrange detail.... and has Zero-Hum and zero microphonic whistle. Other features players will be delighted with is the superb dynamic range and string output balance.

This set has Kinman's propriety Alnico low strength magnets, like all our Fender type pickups, so string pull is minimized, sustain is longer and there is less rattle and buzz from the strings crashing into the frets from excessive magnet pull.

  • Number of parts in this pickup: 168
  • Number of parts in normal pickup: 10
  • Number of parts in other brand noiseless: 23

Here we see the iFusion® TV62B with Kinman '60's Noiseless and K4 Harness fitted.

What's wrong with P-90's? Not much, but two aspects that annoy me are the strong tendency of the neck position wound strings when played as a chord to turn to mush under aggressive pick attack; that and the large amount of mains hum.

During the course of the development period I came to realize that some manufacturers of P-90 are under-winding for a lower output in an effort to reduce 60Hz hum. Well they certainly did that but unfortunately they also lost a lot of revered sonic characteristics. It was when I compared these inferior modern cousins to my genuine original Gibson P-90 I realize why it is I see so many comments on forums saying the hum from a P-90 is about the same a Strat pickup. That is a deluded claim because under identical laboratory test conditions a genuine P-90 has 650 millivolts of hum compared to 250 millivolts for a Strat pickup. P-90's are incredibly noisy.