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P.A.F Lite - sweet, pretty and well balanced / 6.4K

/ 6.4K Ohms.

P.A.F Lite

Un-balanced coils but not un-balanced hum = Zero-Hum.  All unbalanced coils in humbuckers produce some hum, but not Kinman's.

The P.A.F Lite is designed to tidy up the woolly bass and the sweeten and balance the treble side.  We also aimed for a better loudness balance with either the P.A.F Plus or P.A.F Astound in the bridge position.  To achieve this we changed a few things and introduced some new thinking.  The result is a nicely balanced and sweet sounding humbucker that still has expressive dynamic range and can kick arse when given the volume.

The P.A.F Lite works better in the neck position than conventional humbuckers and is excellent for the bridge position too if you want less dirty growl than a regular humbucker.  The Lite version in the neck has a big, clean bass sound and the sweetest plain strings you've ever heard.  With an overall gentile attitude we think it's the prettiest sounding conventional style humbucker you're likely to hear and the ultimate humbucker for Jazz, balads, Indie, country right through to soft rock.

Kinman humbuckers with advanced magnetic circuit technology will take you where no other humbucker can take you …. on a journey into expressive sonic dimensions and tonal Nirvana.

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

If you want split single coil please consider the 2n1 Gen-2 which produces a great Fender sound.

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)

Introduced Dec-2011 \ Patent number 8,791,351

Kinman Humbuckers can be ordered with the optional 2 wire and 5 wire Gibson Quick Connect circuit board connectors shown below.  Check inside the control cavity.  More connection options below.

Number of parts in this pickup: 46
Number of parts in normal pickup: 24

Technical & Application info:

The Baseplate is laser engraved with all Identity info and unique Serial number.

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) a small modification to the pickguard opening to accommodate a Kinman humbucker is well worth the effort since Kinman's sound so much better.

Split single coil is the Secondary coil, the one without adjustable screw poles or the one that's closest to the opposite pickup.

Hook-up cable

• Standard is 2 conductor shielded
• Not recommended but can be split so 3 conductor hook-up cable is optional upon request. See our 2n1 / Converge-3 ultimate splitting models.
• Phase reversing  can also be done with 3 conductor hook-up cable.
• Not recommended but 4 conductor cabling for Series, Parallel and Coil Splitting upon request at addidional cost.
• Neck 380mm / 15" long -and- Bridge 150mm /6" long for bridge.

Connection means available

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

Number of parts in this pickup: 46

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 Conductopr Hook-Up cable when ordering

Pot & Capacitor values

• Best with 500k Ohm for Volume & Tone.  Many Gibson's have 300k which makes a darker, 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 spreads

• 50mm for all applications except the bridge position of a Strat with vintage 6 point bridge and saddle spread of 56.4mm as well as bridge position in other guitars with a bridge saddle spread less than 54mm.
• 53mm for bridge position in Strats with a genuine vintage 6 point bridge, saddle spread of 56.4mm.

Mounting options

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

Covers and colors

• Open and Closed top Natural Nickel-Silver, Kin-Chrome and Gold plated covers.  Our exclusive Kin-Chrome covers have Zero impact on sonic performance (a world first)
• Open top Natural Nickel-Silver, Kin-Chrome or Gold covers
• Various colored top plates are available for open top covers (Black, Cream, White, Blue & Green).
• Kinman humbuckers are engineered differently without molded plastic bobbins.  Removing covers will not reveal bobbins and we advise against it.