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P90-Bucker ..... Wallow in Rich, Lush DYNAMIC TONE


 

Our unique and exclusive 240 cover with Cream top plate (Black and colorful Pearloids are optional)

New natural Nickel-Silver closed cover




 

 
Brett Kingman's YouTube demo Another demo by Brett

Beautiful, clear and highly dynamic sounds

At last, Seth Lovers brief has been fulfilled 57 years after the event, a Humbucker that sounds like Gibson intended it to sound, like a P-90 .... but actually it's so much better than a P-90.  This is one hell of a humbucker, actually a good name would be the "Humbucker From Heaven" because it’s lush sonic purity, gorgeous rich and beautiful tone, outstanding clarity and inspirational dynamics is breathtaking to experience.  If you are chasing better clarity and note definition from the low wounds our regular humbuckers are pretty darn good but the P90-Bucker represents a quantum leap into the superlative.  That's because single coils 'own' clarity and note definition on the low wound strings and the P90-Bucker has a genuine, 100% authentic single coil sound.  Actually it sounds far better than a regular noisy P-90 because it has noticeably improved dynamic range.  And it is set apart from similar looking humbuckers of other brands by our Patented magnetic technology that give our's a huge advantage and in a side-by-side shoot-out the Kinman will win by a county mile ,,, guaranteed.

P90-Bucker  This beyond excellent pickup for the neck position produces gorgeous, highly transparent, lush piano tones from the wound strings and delivered with a nice, expressive whack attack.  Over endowed with even order harmonics the plain strings sound can only be described as "beautiful".  Similar to our P-90 Hx Sweet Neck model, it is designed to minimize the messy sound from the neck pickup when the low wound strings are played together in a chord.  In the neck position it balances well in terms of loudness and sonic character with most PAF type of pickups in the bridge.  Can also be used in the bridge position if for some reason the Clean Bridge model is not suitable.  An out-of-the-box pickup that sounds wonderful for Jazz and any music with melody lines (for Surf and twangy instrumentals checkout our sharp Twang-Bucker).

P90-Bucker Clean Bridge  Another excellent pickup that sounds similar to a regular neck model in the bridge slot.  A little bit louder and a little bit less treble to complement the regular neck model in the neck position.  Choose both for a set that has an overall cleaner sound than the dirty P90-Bucker Heavy.  The Clean Bridge works very very well in the neck position to provide easy crunch, along with the Heavy model in the bridge.

P90-Bucker C&B Neck  with Crunch & Bite it's the perfect companion for a P90-Bucker Heavy in the bridge.  Both break into crunch easily with moderately loud room volume and both have a nice bite.

P90-Bucker Heavy  Designed for bridge position but works in the neck too for a big fat sound not too trebly.  Similar to our P-90 Hx model the Nasty 90 produces fat growl with nice sweet biting highs pretty much like (but better sounding than) a regular Gibson P-90.  It's about as loud as our PAF Astound and 59+ LPS models.  The perfect companion in the neck is the (above) C&B model.

For reverse offset pole configuration specify Left Hand in the Order Form.
 
P90-Buckers  can not be split to one coil so two conductor hook-up cables only.  Since our Zero-Hum P90 in a humbucker cover delivers such a superb sound, superior to a humbucker, we believe foregoing series parallel switching is a small price to pay.  What would you rather have from one pickup .... one superb sound -or- three sounds that all fall short?

Various colored top plates are available under the open top Kin-Chrome or Gold covers.  See Technical & Application info section below or What's New section >Open-top humbuckers with new decorative top plates.

  • Totally immune to microphonic screech.
  • Absolutely Zero-Hum (more silent than regular humbuckers)

Patent number 8,791,351

Our Humbuckers cancel hum better than any other humbucker but there is another type of noise called 'buzz which can only be minimized by shielding the wiring cavities (refer to >Technical >Perfect Guitar >Shielding for newer guitars)


Technical & Application info:


 

 
  The Baseplate is Laser engraved with all Identity info

Introduced August '14.  When Gibson’s President Ted McCarty told Seth Lover to silence the P-90 in 1955 I took that to mean keep the P-90 sound and get rid of the hum.  Well Seth got rid of the hum (almost) but the sound of his humbucker was nothing like a P-90.  Gone were the expressive whack attack and the piano tones of the low wound strings.  Gibson sat on the pickup for 2 years for that reason and only released it in 1957 under pressure in response to Gretsch’s silent Filtertron pickup.  Meanwhile a whole generation of guitar players has grown up not experiencing the wonderful sonic attributes of a gorgeous P-90.  They don’t know what it means to have expressive whack attack and piano tones coming from the low wound strings.  That's because the P-90 was relegated to the back burner due to the massive amount of 60Hz mains hum it produces and it died a death at the hands of Gibson's marketing team and Seth's humbucker.

Some 57 years later in 2013 and Chris Kinman discovers the obscure Law of Electrical Physics that prevents humbuckers from sounding anything like a P-90, especially on the low wound strings.  This Law of Electrical Physics is relatively unknown since one of the few places it operates is in the side-by-side coil arrangement of a humbucker.  From an understanding of the actual problem Kinman devised a solution using our recently Patented technology to allow the coils to produce a more natural string sound free from that destructive Law of Electrical Physics in the coils.  The revolutionary P90-Bucker is the result and gorgeous, transparent, lush piano tones delivered with a highly expressive whack attack is the sound it produces.

Direct replacement for conventional humbuckers such as Gibson, Duncan etc.  Some guitars (a few Ibanez, some Fender Strat and one or two others) have pickups with excessively rounded corners.  If a pickguard is fitted (for example Fender Strat Deluxe) please consider our Humbucker-Tron.

Number of parts in this pickup: 42
Number of parts in normal pickup: 23

Hook-up cable

  • Can not be split so has a 2 conductor hook-up cable.  380mm / 15" long
  • Upon request: 3 conductor with outer shield for series connection as well as phase reversal.

Connection means available

  • Bare wire ends for soldering.
  • Kinman connectors for plugging into any Kinman Goodbye-Soldering Harness.- including the 2 pickup KHP-90 for Gibsons.
  • Gibson 2 wire & 5 wire Quick Connect circuit board connectors shown below.

Output Polarity: 

  • in-phase with Gibson and Copy humbuckers
  • in-phase with all other Kinman pickups
  • opposite phase to Fender Strat
  • Can be phase reversed by specifying 3 Conductor Hook-Up cable when ordering

Pot & Capacitor values

  • Best with 500k Ohm for Volume & Tone.  Many Gibson's have 300k which makes a darker, slightly less dynamic sound.
  • Normal tone cap value of 0.022µF in 63 ~ 100 volt Polyester.  Smaller value lessen the severity of Treble cut, higher values increase it.

Pole spacings

that provide optimum string-over-pole alignment.  Our Ordering System automatically allocates the correct pole spacing according to the bridge spacing you indicate. Dealers stock only the regular 50mm version.

  • where the bridge saddle spacing is a standard Gibson 52mm (or less than 54mm for some other brands).
    • 47.5mm for neck position
    • 50mm for bridge position
  • where the bridge saddle spacing on a Stratocaster is 56.4mm (vintage 6 point bridge)
    • 50mm for neck position
    • 53mm for bridge position

Covers and colors

  • Open top Natural Nickel-Silver, highly recommended because of zero impact on sonic performance.  Our unique 240 as well as generic cover with rounded corners
  • Closed top Natural Nickel-Silver, have low impact on sonic performance 
  • Electro real Gold plating on closed top covers does impact on treble frequencies.
  • Various colored top plates are available for open top covers (Black, Cream, White and 6 different Pearloid colors) with clear, scratch resistant protector plate.
  • Kinman humbuckers are engineered differently without molded butyrate plastic bobbins.  Removing covers will not reveal bobbins and we advise against it.

Mounting options

  • conventional 2 screw mounting,
  • also available with 3 screw mounting (you specify the distance between the two top screws)