Sonic performance:

Standard version sounds more like a P-90 and is intended for bridge position but also rips in the neck position: All the natural dirty growl, searing fluid highs, loudness and tone you expect from a quality P-90 and then some. Roll the volume down and it turns all sweet and pretty. There are customers who prefer a 250k volume pot to tame it’s wild side a little bit but we think it’s best with a 500k volume pot that maximizes it’s dynamic punch and searing highs. It moves a lotta air.
The new Kick Heavy is a new bridge variation for smoother heavily distorted Heavy Metal. In response to suggestions from customers to further distance it from single coil sound we’ve tamed the pick-click of the ferocious highs and softened the piano mid-tones of the low wound strings giving it a more conventional rounded sound of a humbucker . The Heavy has the same 2.8 Q factor as a regular bucker. To go one step even further use a 250k volume pot instead of 500k that we recommend.
With maple necks naturally the standard variant sounds more like a P-90 crossed with a humbucker and that’s what our PAF Plus sounds like anyway. Customers say it’s a very good thing.
Outstanding aspects: Humbuckers typically measure 4 Henrys of Inductance (the measure of magneto electrical efficiency) and Q Factor of around 2.8, this little powerhouse measures a whopping 5.6 Henrys and 8.1K Ohms with a Q factor of 3.4 and that means it’s a kick arse highly dynamic pickup ,,, and like our full sized humbuckers it’s got Zero-Hum … whoopeeee!!!

One customer reports they are a little bit louder then a Duncan ‘Pearly Gates’ humbucker but he prefers our Kick-in-the-Arse.

You’ll transform your triple ‘S’ Stratocaster to a ‘HSS’ hero easily and won’t onlookers be wide-eyed when all hell breaks loose and you’re ripping with kick-arse growling n screaming humbucker sounds without using pedals … and without Hum …. from a Strat!!! Yup, you’re gonna get questions.

Does a set of 3 make sense? You betcha it does, the position 2 and 4 sounds are unique and so usable, they still growl when the wounds are struck but with more mellow, chimey plain string sound. The middle is far from redundant, it’s got as much charisma as the bridge and neck. A set of 3 might just be the best humbucker sound you’ve ever heard.

Is it good for clean sounds? the Kick sounds very nice in clean mode. But after all it has the power and sound of a Kinman PAF Plus humbucker and it’s a gutsy pickup and consequently will push the amp into distortion far easier when adjusted close to the strings than, say any other Strat pickup will. Like any humbucker, the volume must be kept low to maintain a clean sound. Also adjusting the pickup away from the strings somewhat lowers the output and intensity of attack making it more conducive to clean sounds for soft n pretty passages in Jazz, Indie, balads and the like. That is the heaven side of the line.

Feel the Kick, it’s available now …. click the BUY button and receive your awesome little powerhouse within 2 weeks.

Now available in Standard 52.4 mm, Intermediate 51mm & Narrow 49.5mm magnet spreads. Pot value recommendations are in the technical section beside this Tab.