Strat Mix Ceramic Bar Alnico

Alnico vs ceramic magnets.

Strat mix ceramic bar alnico. With windings like for like the ceramic will usually have a thicker less stratty sound with a chunkier midrange and less definition. Fwiw the barden tele neck pickup is my favorite tele neck position pickup and i ve tried a lot of different tele strat mini humbucker full size humbucker ceramic alnico pickups ymmv of course. The only exception to this is the vintage noiseless ceramic which was featured a few years back on higher end strats but they have seemed to fallen out of favor and have been replace by the scn different magnet than both ceramic and alnico pickups. Bar mags for ceramics are black.

They are not themselves permanent magnets. Wilkinson low gauss vintage tone ceramic st strat single coil pickup for stratocaster guitar middle white. To my ear much of the personality of the strat is lost with this type of pickup. 4 7 out of 5 stars 63.

My opinion there would not be much difference if we could test ceramic poles versus alnico poles or ceramic bar versus same size ceramic bar generating the same field pattern. Bangdan alnico 2 bar magnet 2 5 x 5 x 125 for humbucker and p90 pickups 2 pcs magnetized. 4 personally i prefer the alnico single coils for the reasons i listed in 1. Get it as soon as thu oct 8.

Thick or thin i have never ever seen any other color ceramic. Single coils can use alnico poles but like the barden there is no room inside for a ceramic so it gets slung below and connects to paramagnetic poles i e. Humbuckers come with alnico or ceramic magnets and people mix them all the time. The bar magnet on a humbucker or mini whether alnico or ceramic is tucked away inside.

To crown a winner in our alnico vs ceramic magnets shootout we would need a way to accurately compare the two which is not an easy task. The reason is ceramic mags are very brittle therefor difficult at best to make rod stock with. Alnico seems to be the popular favorite but on the other hand there is no shortage of popular recordings that feature ceramic pickups.