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The upgraded v2 is here to create a love affair with your guitar, by transforming it into one that you simply can't put down. If authentic impolite P-90 sound is what you like, Kinman is the one you want.
Bright Sweet Neck – with the recently revised v3 top coil upgrade and it's beyond excellent sonic character it now rates as the outstanding best P-90 neck pickup.
If you like stellar highs that sizzle with harmonic sweetness, you'll also love the heavily accented piano mid-tones in the lows. We think you'll also dig the way every note explodes with liquid fluency under the lightest and fastest pick attack where every note literally rolls off the fretboard and rapidly moves a lot of air in front of the speaker. Consequently the Bright Sweet Neck is one of your most stimulating and satisfying P-90's to play. We think you will fall in love with it's lush somewhat 3D Fender-ish sound and excellent note separation and it's not inclined to break-up easily under heavy pick attack at loud room volume.
Powerful bright & clear, good definition, it's the only P-90 not inclined to mush and sloppy blurr on the low wound strings on the neck pickup.
It's exceptional for lively clean sounds but also delivers a great gain/overdrive sound too. The Bright Sweet Neck reports every subtle nuance of your playing to your amplifier like few other P-90 pickups.
The one-of-a-kind Bright Sweet Neck works well with the Bright Clean Bridge. And both-on-together produces amazing and most intense, highly dynamic scooped 'c-luck' sound of any known pickup. This pair really packs a wallop.
This is all true, it's not just our fanciful imagination.
You will have a lot of fun, enjoyment and satisfaction exploring the extended sonic dimensions of these remarkably advanced pickups and we believe you won't be able to put your guitar down.
For replacing humbuckers with a similar sound please look at our P90-Bucker in the Humbucker section.
NEWS Flash 18-August-2022: We now supply our new 'Universal' soapbar covers in genuine Gibson Cream, Warm White, Aged White and Black, click the option when ordering. A must for Gibson guitars!
Big News: No more routing cavity floors, the new shorter Gen-3 version has arrived and fits most P-90 guitars, the exceptions are those with cavities shown in these pictures. Improved sound and performance over the original Gen-2.
More Big NEWS May-2021: Gen-3 upgrade with our new amazing v2 Hum Sensor which unleashes the liveliness of the pickup.
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v2 upgrade introduced 18-May-2021 v3 upgrade introduced 18-Dec-2022 |
The Bright Sweet Neck is a Zero Hum pickup. Some people will call these noiseless P-90 pickups but Kinman prefers to describe them correctly as Zero-Hum P-90 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
Upgrades: Grounded pole screws are now standard on all models as from July-2017
Pickup adjustment
As with all Kinman Gen-2 pickups these are very sensitive to height adjustment. A good starting point, so the neck and bridge pickups balance, is with the two E strings fretted at the 15th fret, adjusted as follows ...
Installation
When replacing an original Gibson 480 two new screw holes must be drilled in the floor of the cavity because our 580 has the mounting screws of a P-90. Cavity for original Gibson 480 is suitable, no modification required. We use Alnico-K** rod magnets, not Alnico-5 blocks as the 480 has.
Consider including our optional non-magnetic mounting plate kit, it makes install fast n easy because you don't have to drill holes in the precise position for the pickups mounting screws in cavity floors. Do NOT use original Gibson mounting plates, being magnetic will dramatically compromise the hum cancelling ability of the P-90 Hx.
Epiphones
Kinman’s will bring your Epiphone to life because they achieve the maximum sonic potential of the guitar, and are easier to install than practically all other brands too because of our Easy Install Kit for f-hole guitars. Comprehensive, easy to do step-by-step instructions provided. Refer to the Overview Tab >Epiphone f-hole talk. More in Pole Spreads, next item ....
Connections
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Output Polarity:
Pot & Capacitor values
Cavity depth
Pole spreads
Hook-up cable
Mounting hardware
Covers
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Clean Bridge & Sweet Neck
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Clean Bridge & Sweet Neck
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Clean Bridge & Sweet Neck
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Clean Bridge & Sweet Neck
Ripping overdrive on the Clean Bridge and Sweet Neck
Tom bought Bright Clean Bridge and Bright Sweet Neck Gen-3 v2 for his Gibson Les Paul Special Tribute P-90
These pickups are fantastic! They have great clarity and note-to-note separation, very pure mids. The round “bell tone” sound I was hoping for is there big time. They also have plenty of punch, overdrive is on tap when I just dig in a little.
And the freedom from noise is amazing. Thi guitar is now dead silent even with no contact with the strings. That added headroom and touch sensitivity do incredible things for the dynamics. As a pair they have added a whole new range of voices to this guitar. I couldn’t be happier, what a great upgrade! Money well spent.
The original Gibson P-90's were rather harsh by comparison to the sweet sounding Kinmans. Articulation wasn’t as good and it was hard to dial in a sweet spot. In contrast, the Kinman P-90 Hx’s are very versatile and as a pair have a fantastic range of very usable tones. And of course there was the loud hum from the originals.
Thanks for the great support and answering my questions so promptly. All in all a first-rate experience.
Tom
I have been enjoying my new p90hx pickups (Bright Sweet Neck and Bright Clean Bridge) which I installed in a 2021 Gibson SG Special, but yesterday they got their first real test, playing with a full band. The ad copy is true. My SG no longer hums, even with a cranked amp .. and these pickups are also much more open, present, and articulate than the stock set. They are incredibly versatile, going from jangly clean to roaring and distorted, which still maintaining clarity between strings.
This guitar has now moved into my number one spot. The one thing it had holding it back before was the hum in certain situations. With that obstacle out of the way, plus their versatility to tackle many different styles, there's a good reason for this to now be my number one axe.
Kinman were also very responsive and helpful regarding some questions my tech and I had, and we ended up with the neck pickup mounted to the floor of the cavity and not using the included tube springs. I'm very glad I took the plunge on buying these pickups and I would highly recommend them to anyone who loves p90s but doesn't love buzz & hum, and wouldn't be satisfied with a "p90" that was in reality a stealth humbucker. Thank you for these marvelous pickups, Kevin.
Thank you for these marvelous pickups, Kevin.
