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Professional Loaded
Noiseless Strat Pickguard
All Cream
999
$
.00
Handcrafted Kinetic Pickups feature the art of shaping the sound based on vintage tone and innovative hum cancelling technology. Every pickup is meticulously ear tested and matched.
- Shocking Quiet
- Close to Vintage Authentic 50s Strat Sound
- Easy to Install - Loaded and Ready to Rock
- No Modifications to your guitar
- Every pickup is Ear Selected and Tested
- Money Back Guaranteed
- Close to Vintage Authentic 50s Strat Sound
- Easy to Install - Loaded and Ready to Rock
- No Modifications to your guitar
- Every pickup is Ear Selected and Tested
- Money Back Guaranteed
NOISE AND HUM ISSUE
Here at Kinetic Pickups we are at great love for Strat guitars and especially for vintage ones. Strat Noiseless Singles is our prime product that we are proud of. Probably most of you have to deal with electrical interference, imperfect grounding, and radio signals of all kinds that contribute to the unwanted hum in the single pickups. For decades, Fender made a deal with its customers. Single-coil hum? Call it “authenticity.” Yes, there are players who go with sonic ghosts hiding behind the notes but we believe that yet there can be many who would prefer to be free from annoyances that get in the way of the sounds they are trying to create and enjoy.
THE ART OF SILENCE
The theory surrounding noise and hum elimination is not novel but eliminating the interference is not a simple task. Kinetic Pickups utilize the counter dummy bobbin along with the active bobbin. However, the “phase reverse” approach has always had one serious drawback: dummy bobbins can effectively eliminate the noise but also kill a good amount of required sound from the active bobbin. Typical noiseless pickups as a result don't sound authentic when compared to a standard pickup with all the noise and full sound. There are frequencies that drop out, especially in the high range and the sound is not so natural and open.
Kinetic Pickups match the active and dummy bobbins together in such a way that they are able to eliminate the unwanted noise while retaining the full spectrum of desired sound. It's not an easy task yet numerous tests have proven this approach works. However, there is one big drawback in this technology – it’s a very tedious and time consuming work. Electronic measurement tools are of no use here. Only human ears can pick up the right balance with tasty combination. The product has to be made by hand, one at a time and then meticulously ear tested and matched.
Kinetic Pickups match the active and dummy bobbins together in such a way that they are able to eliminate the unwanted noise while retaining the full spectrum of desired sound. It's not an easy task yet numerous tests have proven this approach works. However, there is one big drawback in this technology – it’s a very tedious and time consuming work. Electronic measurement tools are of no use here. Only human ears can pick up the right balance with tasty combination. The product has to be made by hand, one at a time and then meticulously ear tested and matched.
VINTAGE SOUND
Most guitar lore is fraught with mystery and haze regarding the vintage sound. A game changer insight was to uncover the actual differences between modern pickups and prime vintage examples.
We believe that vintage pickups sound open, warm, balanced and natural. They "breath freely" with the "full sound" going forward thus helping a player to create good music. On the contrary the modern pickups sound mainly harsh, unmusical and with that feeling as if something is pulling backwards.
We have completed thousands of tests to understand how magnetic fields work in the vintage pickups and the ones we tried to develop. It might be audacious to say but we have made our best to provide products that sound “in your face”, open, musical and capable of providing that feeling of free full breath advantage.
We believe that vintage pickups sound open, warm, balanced and natural. They "breath freely" with the "full sound" going forward thus helping a player to create good music. On the contrary the modern pickups sound mainly harsh, unmusical and with that feeling as if something is pulling backwards.
We have completed thousands of tests to understand how magnetic fields work in the vintage pickups and the ones we tried to develop. It might be audacious to say but we have made our best to provide products that sound “in your face”, open, musical and capable of providing that feeling of free full breath advantage.
THE ART OF SILENCE
Type: Stacked-Coil (Active + Passive)
Function: Noiseless
Magnets: Staggered Special Order with respect to authentic 1954’s specs
Pole Spacing: Neck (1.89"- 48 mm), Middle (1.97" - 50 mm), Bridge (2.05" - 52 mm)
DC Resistance: about 12 -13 kOm correlates to 6-7 kOm of classic noisy pickups and cannot be directly compared due to passive bobbins. All 3 pickups are ear matched and balanced by output characteristics.
Inductance: about 2,9 - 3,2 Henry
Covering Color: Cream
Pickguard Color: Strat 3 Ply Cream
Knobs: Cream
Switch: 5 Way Pickup Selector Switch
Pots: CTS Type 250k
Capacitors: 022uf Vintage 50-60s we can salvage
Lead wire: Shielded 2 conductors
Shielding: Copper Tape
Function: Noiseless
Magnets: Staggered Special Order with respect to authentic 1954’s specs
Pole Spacing: Neck (1.89"- 48 mm), Middle (1.97" - 50 mm), Bridge (2.05" - 52 mm)
DC Resistance: about 12 -13 kOm correlates to 6-7 kOm of classic noisy pickups and cannot be directly compared due to passive bobbins. All 3 pickups are ear matched and balanced by output characteristics.
Inductance: about 2,9 - 3,2 Henry
Covering Color: Cream
Pickguard Color: Strat 3 Ply Cream
Knobs: Cream
Switch: 5 Way Pickup Selector Switch
Pots: CTS Type 250k
Capacitors: 022uf Vintage 50-60s we can salvage
Lead wire: Shielded 2 conductors
Shielding: Copper Tape
We use high quality materials, unique manufacturing technology and spend a lot of time fine tuning every pickup to create the best sound possible. That is why our unique pickups cost more than those of our competitors. If you are looking for the best, we might save you time and money by helping you avoid buying more affordable products from other companies. Every noiseless pickup is individual and the process involved to make them is not something that can be duplicated in a factory somewhere, and probably will never be able to be replicated by any mass production technique. For this reason they are special, made by hand, ear tested and thus are by their very nature more expensive than any typical guitar pickup.
We are looking for partnerships with music stores, guitar manufacturing companies and private luthiers. Also, guitar bloggers and those who can make good video tests and help promote our products we can provide dealer prices and discounts.
We are looking for partnerships with music stores, guitar manufacturing companies and private luthiers. Also, guitar bloggers and those who can make good video tests and help promote our products we can provide dealer prices and discounts.
We understand current marketing and competition issues, so our approach is simple. We choose to be honest with our Customers and to guarantee sound quality and noise elimination advantage of our products. We also offer our vision and own taste for Strat Pickups and understand that tastes may differ and situations vary. We do not want our product to end up in a box with other unused and rejected pickups. In case you may look for other sound after trying our pickups, you will receive a full refund, guaranteed.
NO Mods to your Guitar – the overall pickup size is close to a Typical Strat pickup. Can be used in any Standard Strat body without any modifications and routing work.
NO Phase Issues – All 3 pickups are scatter winded in the same direction and with same magnet polarity as they did in in 50s. So, the 3 pickups are perfectly in phase and have the “full sound”. The usual way to fight the noise in Strat configuration of 3 pickups is the 2nd and 4th Positions. This is done by reverse winding of the Middle pickup making it out of phase and then reverse the magnets polarity bring back the phase which is not perfect. Kinetic Pickups do not require this trick because they are noiseless and provide the best possible combination between all 3 pickups.
Installation – easy and takes almost no time. You need to solder hot (yellow) and cold (red) wires coming from the pickguard to the output jack of your guitar. The ground wire of your guitar should be soldered to the place where the Volume Pot’s Leg is soldered to the pot’s body.
NO Phase Issues – All 3 pickups are scatter winded in the same direction and with same magnet polarity as they did in in 50s. So, the 3 pickups are perfectly in phase and have the “full sound”. The usual way to fight the noise in Strat configuration of 3 pickups is the 2nd and 4th Positions. This is done by reverse winding of the Middle pickup making it out of phase and then reverse the magnets polarity bring back the phase which is not perfect. Kinetic Pickups do not require this trick because they are noiseless and provide the best possible combination between all 3 pickups.
Installation – easy and takes almost no time. You need to solder hot (yellow) and cold (red) wires coming from the pickguard to the output jack of your guitar. The ground wire of your guitar should be soldered to the place where the Volume Pot’s Leg is soldered to the pot’s body.