Strat Ceramic Vs Alnico

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Strat ceramic vs alnico.

Let s listen to how they sound. Alnico tends to produce a very musical pickup in most. Magnetically speaking ceramic magnets produce a stronger field than alnico. Magnet material is usually one of two varieties.

Whereas ceramic is used in metal as it sounds tight loud and cool. Ceramic magnets tend to boost treble response and have become popular for pickups with extra coil winding to compensate for the treble loss. The result is a slightly hotter sounding pickup with more treble response. You often hear that the sound of a pickup is dominated by the choice of magnet used in its construction.

You see ceramic is easier to come by than alnico making it a cheaper magnet to make. Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues. 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 of ceramic surprise.

What s the difference between ceramic alnico magnet pickups. Ceramic vs alnico discussion in stratocaster discussion forum started by ratherbefishing. Ceramic magnets are made from ferrites often iron oxides. A lot of people automatically say that alnico is superior to ceramic in 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. 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.