Presenting Kinman's new 7 String noiseless Stratocaster pickup, the Magnum Opus 'Aella'
Special introductory price per pickup for launch. Contact us to place your order until the Order Form is completed.
Our Aella model has classic vintage Strat low mid scoop, a strong twang and purity and sweetness of glassy highs, it also has quite a strong vintage output. Generally, the sound is highly dynamic and springy with great touch sensitivity that makes rapid picking so effortless.
Aella is a Greek mythological girls name meaning 'storm wind or whirlwind'. The name implies this pickup is capable of sonic mayhem as well as sounds of extraordinary feminine beauty ... thanks to the prevalence of intense piano-mid-tones.
Artemis is the most liberated female in mythology and our namesake model has the most liberated sound and feel. Highly dynamic, very touch sensitive and lots of twangy piano mid-tones with nice trebles. It is far louder than Aella and balances better with humbuckers in the same guitar.
The bigger the string the greater is the magnet pull that is exerted on it. The B-7th is very big but our special Alnico-K5 rod magnets have just 60% of the magnetic strength of regular Alnico-5 so string pull is minimized, as is string crash and string warble (Strat-itis) while sustain is maximized. The sound has great clarity, not just because it's free of the clutter of 60Hz mains hum and fret rattle & buzzing notes but mainly due to our unique coil design (designed especially for the low B it's not just an ordinary coil). Also our magnet stagger is optimized for the usual 16" fretboard radius (+ or - 2") on 7 string guitars and designed to provide exceptional string level balance across all strings, including the plain G-3rd.
Kinman Strat pickups are known to be not only the best noiseless but the best Strat pickups period ... and now here is our new Septimus S series and it's no exception. Come out of the dark ages with these technical and sonic Masterpieces.
Signal chain requirements for best tone and dynamic performance: Like any pickup it's not a bad idea to use a low capacitance cable to get the incredible performance of these pickups and hear all the nuances you and your guitar can muster. Learn why here Any old cable won't do.
The KING of noiseless and the Prince of Tone and Feel ... that's Kinman.
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Baseplate nomenclature so you'll never forget what powers your guitar
Introduced February-2023
US Patents 5,668,520 6,103,986 8,791,351
We incorporated our Gen-3 Magnum Opus 'TCS inhibiting technology' so the Low 'B' holds together better when picked with a sharp upstroke. Strat* pickups suffer from TCS aka Torn Cone Syndrome. It’s an unpleasant, messy distortion-like sound that occurs with a strong sharp upstroke in the lower register of the B-7th. Listen to mild TCS here TCS audio clip The only other Strat models that has our TCS inhibiting technology are the other Magnum Opus 6 string Strat models.
Outstanding sonic characteristics: You will get scooped / tubular lower midrange which characterizes wonderful 60+ year old Strat pickups before they aged. You'll also get pristine, RICH crystalline and GLASY highs and 1956 bell ring, exceptional presence and bite, sharp snappy dynamic thwack attack and fantastic twang full of piano mid-tones (more so when using a medium plectrum). The Septimus series has exceptional clarity & presence in the neck position, in fact you will have rarely experienced such clarity previously, if at all. This incredible pickup sounds better than any 7 string pickup that we have tried .... and, it's got Zero-Hum.
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 this pickup.
Enjoyability factor on a scale of 1~10: Eleven or twelve with the best non-noiseless being ten.
Loudness: Moderately loud and strong, louder than our Impersonator E56 and any 7-String Strat pickup measuring 7.5K Ohms and more like the output of an SSL-5 of 13.3 to 15.5k Ohms. However, with the extremely high magnetic efficiency of our Septimus MV we don't have to resort to over-winding to get high output and it measures more like 9.6K Ohms.
The Septimus MV is a direct replacement for standard 7 string Strat pickups and will accommodate in existing pickup cavities. See Dimensions below.
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We highly recommend consulting the Install Guide in the 'Technical' section even if you think you know it all. Kinmans' require a degree of 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 the Technical section so you get the best out of your Kinman pickups.
** Alnico-K5 is a unique proprietary Alnico rod magnet developed by Kinman in 1985. It is Alnico-5 but 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.
* Fender and Stratocaster and Strat are registered Trade Marks of Fender Musical Instrument Corp, Inc. Kinman is not associated with FMIC but they kindly permit us to refer to their Trade Marks to reference our products.
