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Mod-Jag
This muscular vintage pickup produces a sound with a big girth and prominent highs; it excels for rock, virtuoso instrumental, blues, you name it, even Jazz. Boxing glove attack and terrific twang with piano mid-tones galore, which turns into a low-note growl under higher gain. That nasty, jagged ice-pick-in-the-ear annoyance that makes your ears hurt is avoided. Still, paradoxically, the prominent highs are quite outstanding and possess a silky purity in which ordinary single coils pale in comparison. It has quite a percussive feel. It doesn’t matter if your playing style is slow and soulful, fast and furious, bluesy, rock, or virtuoso, the Mod-Jag will satisfy all kinds, including demanding virtuoso players.
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Mod-Jag ~ Loud, full Fender tone with outstanding highs
Kinman Jaguar pickup with it’s Kinman special one-piece non-magnetic Claw, as of 20-July-2017
Fender Jaguar for Modern style
COVERS news Dec-22: We now have our own Jaguar covers that don’t require modifying the opening in the pickguard. Available in White, Aged White, Parchment, Gibson Cream, and Black. We can now supply 52.5mm, 51mm, and 49.5mm magnet spreads in any color to suit any type of bridge (wide vintage or modern narrow such as Mastery, Tune-O-Matic, and so on)
Magnum Opus sets are now available in the Mixed Sets order form. The Magnum Opus versions, like our Magnums for Stratocaster, incorporate our TCS Inhibiting technology and have a bit extra oomph and presence. There is no doubt these are the finest Jaguar pickups available.
This muscular vintage pickup produces a sound with a big girth and prominent highs; it excels for rock, virtuoso instrumental, blues, you name it, even Jazz. Boxing glove attack and terrific twang with piano mid-tones galore, which turns into a low-note growl under higher gain. That nasty, jagged ice-pick-in-the-ear annoyance that makes your ears hurt is avoided. Still, paradoxically, the prominent highs are quite outstanding and possess a silky purity in which ordinary single coils pale in comparison. It has quite a percussive feel. It doesn’t matter if your playing style is slow and soulful, fast and furious, bluesy, rock, or virtuoso, the Mod-Jag will satisfy all kinds, including demanding virtuoso players.
The Mod-Jag is very responsive and is a very versatile pickup for many other types of music!! Our Jaguar* for modern styles is like our Impersonator MV (Modern Vintage – changed from Impersonator 54) Strat* pickup, but because Jags have a shorter scale length, the sound will be deeper and more throaty. Also, our’s has staggered magnets that give you nicely balanced string output levels, which we know you are gonna dig.
IMPORTANT info for you: Jaguars short scale results in lower string tension which produces more string crash and pitch warble however, Kinman proprietary Alnico-K** low strength magnets reduce string crash and buzz as well as allow longer sustain and minimize pitch warble.
Name changed from Blues-Jag to Mod-Jag 15-August-2022
Technical Stuff
Kinman pickups for Jaguar are direct replacements, and no modification to the guitar is required.
Some people will call these noiseless Jaguar pickups, but Kinman prefers to describe them correctly as Zero-Hum Jaguar pickups. That’s because there are 2 types of noise, Hum which is canceled in the pickup, and Buzz, which can only be minimized by shielding the wiring cavities (refer to >Technical >Perfect Guitar >Shielding for newer guitars
** Alnico-K is a unique proprietary rod magnet developed by Kinman in 1985. It is Alnico-5 but has 40% less string pull than Alnico-5, so sustain is longer, and there is much less clatter from string crash and no Strat-itis string warble.
* Fender, Strat, Jaguar, and Jag are registered Trade Marks of Fender Musical Instrument Corp, Inc. Kinman is not associated with FMIC, but they kindly permit us to refer to their Trade Marks to describe our products.
Number of parts in this pickup: 31
Number of parts in regular single coil: 11
Number of parts in other brands noiseless: There are no other noiseless Jaguar pickups with Alnico rod magnets. Kinman is the only one, and that makes it the coolest Jaguar pickup available.
Laser engraved nomenclature so you can’t forget.
Pickup adjustment
As with all Kinman Gen-2 pickups, these are 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 … and then experiment with lower heights too.
- bridge pickup, so the string-to-magnet gap is 1.25mm for both E strings
- neck pickup, so the string-to-magnet gap is 1.5mm for both E strings
Connection means available
- Bare wires for soldering.
- Kinman connectors for plugging into any Kinman Goodbye-Soldering Harness. We do not make harnesses for Jaguar.
Hook-up wires
- Three single wires are standard. Allows for phase reversing and series connection. Cut generously longer than necessary for the 2 pickup positions.
- Single non-shielded wires require shielding in the cavities that carry wiring to prevent electrical buzz. See >Technical >Perfect Guitar >Shielding for newer guitars
- We now use Fenders color codes.
Output Polarity:
- in-phase with all other Kinman pickups (compatible)
- in-phase with Gibson and Copy humbuckers (compatible)
- opposite phase to Fender Strat etc. (requires phase reversal of either pickup)
Pot & Capacitor values
- Recommended 250k Ohm Volume pot (measured). Thinner sound with 500k or 1Meg for Volume & Tone.
- It’s easy to change the pot in the main circuit, but it’s difficult to find the smaller one in the separate upper circuit for the neck pickup.
- The tone pot is usually the same value as the volume. A little more top-end brightness from 500k, 1meg, or a No-Load.
- Normal tone cap value of 0.022μF in 63 ~ 100 volts. Smaller values lessen the severity of the Treble cut.
Magnet spreads (E-1st ~ E-6th)
- 52.5mm, which suits Fender USA, Japanese.
- 51mm, which suits some Squire, SE Asian, and Mexican Jags.
- Indicate the bridge saddle spread in the Ordering Process so we know which one you need.
Magnet Staggers
- Normal improved Stagger to suit 7 ~ 14-inch uniform radius fretboards including USA Custom Guitar Compound 7-1/4″ ~ 9-1/2
- Flat Stagger for specific compound radius fretboards (Warmoth 10 ~ 16 inch and Post 2010 Fender Deluxe 9 ~ 14″)
- Option to specify the magnet stagger in our ‘After-Order Additional Questions‘ email we send you.
Mounting hardware included
- Two of our specially made improved mounting screws.
- 2 Silicon Rubber tube springs are included.
- Kinman is one one-piece special non-magnetic Claw that is fixed to the pickup.
Covers
- Black and Cream for MiA and MiJ that have 55 mm bridge saddle spread and White & Ivory for Squires that have 52mm saddle spread.
- With and without the Kinman logo.
We highly recommend consulting the Install Guide in the Technical section, even if you think you know it all. Kinmans require specialized knowledge, and sometimes there is updated info.
We also highly recommend consulting the Adjust & Set-up page also in the Technical section so you get the best out of your Kinman pickups.
Youtube
These two YouTube will give you a good impression of the versatile Mod-Jag because it’s the same pickup used in these demos. Just take into consideration that Jags have a shorter scale so that the sound will be throatier.
Brett shows the MV’s versatility
Andrew Farnham enjoys the fabulous top-end bite in this boppy cruise around the fretboard. And yup, these are noiseless … so why is the sound so unexpectedly better than non-noiseless? How is that possible when everything you heard was about noiseless pickups being dull and lifeless?
