Ceramic magnets are made of ceramic surprise.
Ceramic vs alnico humbuckers.
This is a tutorial video to demonstrate the difference in sound and performance between a ceramic and alnico v magnet in a bridge humbucker looking specific.
Alnico tends to produce a very musical pickup in most setups.
The reason ceramic has a bad rap is probably due to its use on low quality instruments in low quality pickups.
сравнение двух звукоснимателей с керамическими и алнико магнитами.
The stronger magnetic field is also said to put out more high end frequencies potentially leading to a harsh and brittle tone.
You see ceramic is easier to come by than alnico making it a cheaper magnet to make.
A lot of people automatically say that alnico is superior to ceramic in pickups.
Let s listen to how they sound.
Whereas ceramic is used in metal as it sounds tight loud and cool.
However there are fantastic sounding ceramic pickups out there such as the g l mfd pickups as well as our own humbuckers and p90 s.
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.
Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues.
Ceramic magnets are typically stronger than alnico magnets so they produce more output.
What s the difference between ceramic alnico magnet pickups.
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