Ceramic Pickups Vs Alnico

Alnico vii is in some pickups but this is rare.

Ceramic pickups vs alnico.

So we often hear. The result is a slightly hotter sounding pickup with more treble response. A lot of people automatically say that alnico is superior to ceramic in pickups. Pickups with alnico v magnets that are voiced more aggressively than pickups with ceramic magnets and alnico ii pickups that sound totally different from other alnico ii pickups definitely exist.

Alnico is a lot more expensive than ceramic. I ve found a guy selling a really nice 60 s style set from a local winder. Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues. Whereas ceramic is used in metal as it sounds tight loud and cool.

Magnetically speaking ceramic magnets produce a stronger field than alnico. Mixing ceramic and alnico pickups on a strat i like it. Just remember that this is only one factor that goes into designing the tonal characteristics of a pickup. The custom is ceramic the custom 5 is alnico 5 and the custom custom is alnico 2.

4 57 1 don t do that. Alnico tends to produce a very musical pickup in most. Jul 2 2017 1 hey guys. Got myself a 2010 mim std strat and i m looking for some new pickups.

Ceramic magnets are made from ferrites often iron oxides. You often hear that the sound of a pickup is dominated by the choice of magnet used in its construction. So having said that i ve noticed that as you go cycle through alnico 2 5 8 and ceramic the lows tighten up and the uppper mids become more pronounced. 3 42 9 total voters 7.

Alnico vs ceramic magnets. So much so that alnico is almost never used in grades of 5 or higher grades are used to tell a magnet s strength but only in comparison to magnets made of the same material.