Strat Ceramic Vs Alnico

Ceramic magnets are made of ceramic surprise.

Strat ceramic vs alnico.

Let s listen to how they sound. Ceramic magnets tend to boost treble response and have become popular for pickups with extra coil winding to compensate for the treble loss. Alnico aluminum nickel and cobalt or ceramic. Whereas alnico pickups use magnetic slugs direct loading.

Whereas ceramic is used in metal as it sounds tight loud and cool. You often hear that the sound of a pickup is dominated by the choice of magnet used in its construction. Donate to guitars for good causes. Alnico tends to produce a very musical pickup in most.

Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues. Magnet material is usually one of two varieties. Technically more efficient ceramic magnets took over in a wide variety of commercial applications starting in the 1960s but ceramic magnet guitar pickups were found to have a generally harsher more brittle sound with sharper peaks than their alnico predecessors. What s the difference between ceramic alnico magnet pickups.

By some players the ceramic magnets are given a bad reputation when compared to alnico which is probably due to their association with cheaper instruments. So we often hear. You see ceramic is easier to come by than alnico making it a cheaper magnet to make. Ceramic vs alnico discussion in stratocaster discussion forum started by ratherbefishing.

I haven t seen a strat pickup yet where ceramic magnet rods were used instead of metal polepieces or alnico slugs but it would be interesting to be able to compare them. Ceramic magnets are made from ferrites often iron oxides. A lot of people automatically say that alnico is superior to ceramic in pickups.