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The clever and unique engineering inside sets it well apart from look-alikes
and it sounds very much like a super twangy single coil but this one has a bigger, more open and toneful bottom end all the way down to open E-6th, unlike Filtertrons on which the wound A and E produce a Chet Atkins dull thud.
A great looking standard sized humbucker with 3D appearance to match it's 3D sound, it makes the other kind of humbucker look a bit ordinary don't you think? It looks vintage and futuristic at the same time. We make it easy to dress up your PRS, Gibson and other humbucker guitars and breathe new life into it as well, a fantastic double win.
Twanga-Tron Would you expect a crisp, twangy, bright snappy highly dynamic Fender-like single-coil sound from a humbucker that has the appearance of a Filertron and named Twanga-Tron? If Indie Jangle, Country, Rockabilly and Twangy Instrumental is your impression you'd be quite right about the sound this amazing marvel makes. Naturally it sounds better than any Filtertron because it's unique 2 x full-sized coils are bigger and that has a lot of advantages. Neck: Alnico-5 bar magnets & 5.5K Ohms ... lower is better than 7K as long as it doesn't lack vitality and that's where our unique technology shines. We recommend a 250k volume pot to temper the amazing treble response without impacting on the low wound strings.
Twanga-Tron Bridge A mate for the neck model above with higher output and a noticeably thicker sound that works well in the bridge position so you get a balance of volume and tone. And the brights are not ear piercing.
Compared to an Impersonator E56 and a Texas Jalapeno Extra Strat pickups these are louder and both neck and bridge have very similar twang and sharpness on the low wounds but the big difference is the highs are more fluent than a Strat and the overall sound is bigger and more lush and more 3D. And it’s louder than a Strat too. You will probably be thinking about leaving your Strat under the bed after experiencing these amazing Twanga-Tron humbuckers from Kinman.
The beautiful Nickel-Silver covers are hand buffed to a high luster that could be mistaken for Chrome plating, except it has the lovely pale warm-yellowish patina of Nickel. But in time this highly polished surface will self-relic naturally unless you use liquid guitar polish occasionally. We think this is the best approach since Nickel and Copper plated substrates under Chrome gives rise to microphonics as well as dulling the high frequencies and impacting attack and dynamics.
Both pickups are a drop-in replacement for standard sized humbuckers. Also, these are a great looking upgrade for Music-Man and as well f-hole guitars such as Gibson ES-335 and ES-175. Also Fender Stratocasters where covers are not fitted to the original humbuckers and where regular humbuckers won't fit because they don't have heavily rounded corners (but this requires a little enlarging of the pickguard opening). We can also make a Humbucker-Tron with our standard shaped humbuckers covers such as our unique 240 open Top like our P90-Bucker has. Choose your preference in the Order Form.
If you need a Telecaster bridge with a pickup opening that suits the rounded corners of this pickup and the required narrow 54mm saddle spread contact Ben Van Dyke-Harms on his website and ask him to make one for you out of recommended non-magnetic stainless steel. And remember to tell him it's a Kinman Twanga-Tron that needs 8mm radius corners in the pickups opening. And take a look at Ben's impressive range of products and you'll be tempted in other ways too.
We also make this fabulous looking replacement mounting ring especially for the extra rounded corners of this equally fabulous looking humbucker. It is available with conventional 2 screw mounting -or- Tri-mount system that allows adjustable Tilt and Slant so you achieve perfect balance of the two coils across all strings.
Let us know if you are interested in including one of these with your order.
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