Kent Armstrong® Vintage Series Magnum PAF Style Humbucker Pickup
This pickup design has sweet, soulful tones with a warm bass, punchy mids, and a bright, jangly treble response. Very reminiscent of a vintage PAF but with enhanced string definition and sounds great with foot pedal effects for great warm vintage tone. 12 individually adjustable pole pieces make this a very versatile pickup, giving better magnetic balance between the two coils. The reason why most people take the covers off their pickups is to get more power because the slugs are too far from the strings in comparison the screw pole pieces. Now you can have full power, plus total shielding in a covered pickup. 4 conductor wiring allows coil splitting, series/parallel, phase inversion, and more.
[SKU:VINTAGE12]
- Magnet Type = Alnico 5
- D.C.resistance = 8.95k Ohms
- Inductance (henrys) = 4.87
- Magnet dimensions = 58mm long X 3mm thick X 12.5mm wide
- This pickup is sold in other countries using part # HPAN-1-12
- Pickup dimensions = 2 3/4 inches long X 1 1/2 inches wide
- Lead Type = 4 conductor
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Kent Armstrong Vintage Series Magnum PAF Style Humbucker Pickup
5.0
Review By Dustin Clark
Really nice!
This humbucker is awesome! Looks awesome, sounds awesome. Great pickup for all kinds of different styles. Thank you Kent Armstrong and WDmusic.
Kent Armstrong Vintage Series Magnum PAF Style Humbucker Pickup
5.0
Review By Electravox Guitar Lab
Under-rated & amazing
Armstrong Magnum PAF's are the nicest pickups you never heard of. Discovered them when looking for quick delivery of Dirty Fingers substitute - I didn't expect much - was very pleasantly surprised. I've used this pickup in a few single pickup Telemaster builds. You don't feel limited by only one pickup with this HB. They're incredibly full sounding without being obnoxious - I'd rate them at abt 80% equal to a DF humbucker (ie; incredible). Very well pronounced highs and lows without loosing much mid. Personally like the look of 12 screws as well. Its pretty nice coil tapped too - sounds great w/ phase switching.
Kent Armstrong Vintage Series Magnum PAF Style Humbucker Pickup
5.0
Review By Electravox Guitar Lab
Spot on choice for single HB
Went looking for an alternate pickup for Dirty Fingers replacement that wasn't as high output. This pickup fills the requirements very nicely. Its got nice clear highs and lows without loosing mids. Overall, K Armstrong pickups are pretty impressive and highly under-appreciated.
I used this pickup in a single HB Jazzcaster build and loved it. Wired as series / parallel through a push/pull VOL pot it was every bit as clear and nicely voiced as a DF without the high output noise. Plus the 12 screw poles look very stylish imo.