$175.00
AVn-48b Gen-2
Brad Paisley has a lot of love for our Gen-1 AVn-48b, it’s his favorite pickup. And now there is this even better new Gen-2 model. The sound of the Gen-2 is even more authentic early Tele, focused with rich tonal complexity and one teriffic twang factor and a lotta air, bell and presence. And, like the original Broadcaster it has a moderately aggressive attitude.
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AVn-48b Gen-2 ….. terrific Tele* bridge with attitude
AVn-48b (Gen-2 bridge pickup)
Brad Paisley has a lot of love for our Gen-1 AVn-48b, and it’s his favorite pickup. And now there is this even better new Gen-2 model. The sound of the Gen-2 is even more authentic than early Tele, focused with rich tonal complexity and one terrific twang factor and a lotta air, bell, and presence. And, like the original Broadcaster, it has a moderately aggressive attitude. This pickup has got punch and clout without hum. When played as single notes, the plain strings are strong and loud and have a bitey harmonic bloom. And the low wounds have a lot of piano mid-tones and a great snappy twang factor. But the twang can easily turn to a growl by bumping the volume up. The sound is louder, clearer, and more dynamic than the previous Gen-1. It beaks into crunch easily without any distortion gismos and cleans up nicely when rolled back.
Its taller upper coil is wrapped with period-correct Ivory colored cotton twine just like the original, but we will wrap it with Black string in the Order Notes box upon request.
This pickup has Kinman’s propriety Alnico-K low-strength magnets, like all our Fender-type pickups, so string pull is minimized, sustain is longer, and there is less rattle and buzz from the strings crashing into the frets.
Balanced 3rd string loudness. No Ice Pick.
Best in a Kinman TK3 or TK4 Goodbye-Soldering Harness.
Technical Stuff
Laser engraved stuff so you won’t forget
The AVn-48b requires no modification to the pickup cavity in your guitar. Like old fashioned Tele bridge pickups, the three mounting screws provide grounding to the bridge & strings. This means the phase is not reversible.
Adjustment requirements
Please refer to >Technical >Adjust & Setup
Connection means available
- Prepared bare wires for soldering.
- Kinman connector for plugging into any Kinman Goodbye-Soldering Harness.
Hook-up cables
- Prepared for soldering and cut generously longer than necessary for Telecasters.
- Custom lengths by request with Order.
- 2 or 3 conductors are shielded. The three mounting screws provide a ground link to the bridge/strings.
- Available with Kinman Harness plug for connecting to any Kinman harness.
- NOTE: the three mounting screws provide grounding to the bridge & strings (like old fashioned Tele bridge pickups do).
Dimensions
- Click for the dimensions page
Output Polarity:
- Phase reversible, so it can adapt to any companion pickups
Pot & Capacitor values
- Pot & Capacitor values
- Great Tele sound with 250k volume pot. A 500k volume pot makes the twang sharper. Both are good.
- The tone pot is usually the same value as the volume, but for a little more top end brightness can be 1meg or a No-Load.
- Stock pots can measure as low as 170k and 350k. Pots in our Goodbye-Soldering Harness are guaranteed to measure no less than 250k and 500k, respectively.
- Normal tone cap value of 0.022uF in 63 ~ 100-volt Polyester. Smaller value reduces the severity of the Treble cut, and larger values increase it.
Magnet spread
- Standard vintage 55mm only (slanted mount resolves to 53.5mm)
Magnet Staggers
- Normal improved Stagger to suit 7 ~ 14 inch range uniform radius fretboards.
- Flat Stagger for specific compound radius fretboards (Warmoth 10 ~ 16 inch and Post 2010 Fender Deluxe 9 ~ 14″)
- Option to choose the magnet stagger of sets and singles in our ‘After-Order Supplementary Questions‘ email we send you.
Mounting hardware included
- 3 Pan head mounting screws 6-32 UNC x 18mm
- 3 Silicon Rubber tube springs.
Covers
- Tele bridge pickups don’t have covers, and the top coil is bound with Ivory colored cotton twine and wax potted for protection.
- With and without Kinman’s logo.
We highly recommend consulting the Install Guide in Tech Info, even if you think you know it all. Kinmans require 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 Tech Info so you get the best out of your Kinman pickups.
YouTubes
Brett Kingman’s YouTube demo of the Gen-2 Broadcaster set.
