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SCn ..... Southern Cousin from Texas - noiseless

Kinman Blues Set Pickups - 2004 Std. Strat	Blues set with Vintage Fuzz

You can expect aged sound with Zero-Hum, longer sustain, minimized fret buzz and a thicker vintage sound with a lot of spank and punch.

SCn is the bridge pickup in the Blues set.  The middle and neck pickups are AVn-62 Mk-I. 

This pickup is designed especially for the bridge position for you if you like a bridge pickup that's significantly hotter than Vintage models.  It delivers very smooth and creamy distortion, either natural overdrive or through FX without losing it's edge.  Has prominent midrange presence, bright but not piercing trebles and rock solid bass strings response with a nice growl when you want it.

The SCn was designed to have just the right tone, attack and output level for the bridge position while retaining the most desirable essential characteristics of a regular single coil pickup.  It can also be used, however, for the neck (or middle) position, clean or overdriven.  If you like fat and bluesy 'direct to the amp overdrive' tone from those positions then you'll like the SCn and it's got none of the usual nasties that hot pickups have. 

News flash Apr-2021: Now with our new Synergy baseplate that allows switching off Hum Cancelling as well as switching to 'Synergy' mode for those that think hum is part of Fender sound.   

Signal chain requirements:  Any old cable won't do.  As with any pickup it's a good idea to use a low capacitance cable to get the maximum incredible performance of these pickups.

Works well in any Kinman Goodbye-Soldering Harness.

Some people will call these noiseless Stratocaster pickups but Kinman prefers to describe them correctly as Zero-Hum Stratocaster pickups.  That's because there are 2 types of noise, Hum which is cancelled in the pickup and Buzz which can only be minimized by shielding the wiring cavities (refer to >Technical >Perfect Guitar >Shielding for newer guitars

*Stratocaster and Strat are a Trade Marks of Fender Musical Instrument Corp.  Kinman is not connected to Fender.

** Alnico-K is a unique proprietary rod magnet developed by Kinman in 1985.  It has 40% less string pull than Alnico-5 so sustain is longer and there is much less clatter from string crash and no Strat-itis string warble.

Technical & Application info:

Under the hood of the SCn   SCn specification nomenclature.

US Patents 5,668,520   6,103,986

Covers - included

• Standard Kinman cover without height extender bushings. 
• Available in White, Black, Aged White.
• With and without Kinman logo.
• Can be tinted with food stains such as Coffee and Tea
• Generic covers will not fit Kinman Strat pickups.  We sell replacement covers in three colors.

Connection means available

• Bare wires for soldering.
• Kinman connectors for plugging into any Kinman Goodbye-Soldering Harness.

Dimensions

• click for dimensions page

Pot & Capacitor values

• Best with 250k Ohm (measured minimum) volume pot.  Less punch and more bright with 500k.
• Tone pot is usually the same value as the volume but for a little more top end brightness can be 500k, 1meg or a No-Load.
• Stock pots can actually measure as low as 175k.  Pots in our Goodbye-Soldering Harness are guaranteed to measure no less that 250k.
• Normal tone cap value of 0.022uF, 63 ~ 100 volt Polyester.  Smaller uF value lessen the severity of Treble cut, higher values increase it.
• The voltage rating of Caps is not important but 63 ~ 100 volt have thicker lead wires that result in a neater job.

Magnet spreads we normally ship (ensures magnets align with the strings in each position)

• Narrow 49.5mm
• Intermediate 51mm
• Standard 52.5mm
• Option to specify your magnet spreads of sets and singles in our 'After-Order Supplementary Questions' email we send you.

Magnet Staggers

• Normal improved Stagger to suit 7" ~ 14 inch uniform radius fretboards including USA Custom Guitar Compound 7-1/4" ~ 9-1/2
• Flat Stagger 14" ~ 20" for specific compound radius fretboards (Warmoth 10 ~ 16 inch and Post 2010 Fender Deluxe 9 ~ 14")
• Option to choose your magnet stagger for sets and singles in our 'After-Payment Supplementary Questions' email we send you.

Hook-up cable

• 2 conductor shielded is standard.  Cut generously longer than necessary for the 3 stock Strat positions.
• Middle pickups when supplied with a K9 harness have 3 conductor shielded.
• Otherwise 3 conductor to enable Phase Reversal by request with Order
• Custom lengths by request with Order.

Output Polarity: 

• in-phase with Gibson and Copy humbuckers
• in-phase with all other Kinman pickups
• opposite phase to Fender Strat

Mounting hardware - included

• 2 Pan head mounting screws.
• 2 Silicon Rubber tube springs.

We highly recommend consulting the Install Guide in Tech Info even if you think you know it all.  Kinmans' require specialized knowledge and sometimes there is updated info.  There is also a handy wiring diagram available.

We also highly recommend consulting the Adjust & Set-up page in Tech Info so you get the best out of your Kinman pickups.