Strat Ceramic Vs Alnico

Ceramic magnets are made from ferrites often iron oxides.

Strat ceramic vs alnico.

Alnico tends to produce a very musical pickup in most. Ceramic magnets are made of ceramic surprise. 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. Magnet material is usually one of two varieties.

Let s listen to how they sound. Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues. Whereas alnico pickups use magnetic slugs direct loading. Ceramic vs alnico discussion in stratocaster discussion forum started by ratherbefishing.

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. You often hear that the sound of a pickup is dominated by the choice of magnet used in its construction. Alnico aluminum nickel and cobalt or ceramic. A lot of people automatically say that alnico is superior to ceramic in pickups.

Alnico was used in all popular vintage pickups and generally has a warm and smooth response. The result is a slightly hotter sounding pickup with more treble response. Magnetically speaking ceramic magnets produce a stronger field than alnico. You see ceramic is easier to come by than alnico making it a cheaper magnet to make.

Donate to guitars for good causes. So we often hear. What s the difference between ceramic alnico magnet pickups.