Whereas ceramic is used in metal as it sounds tight loud and cool.
Ceramic vs alnico humbuckers.
The reason ceramic has a bad rap is probably due to its use on low quality instruments in low quality pickups.
A lot of people automatically say that alnico is superior to ceramic in pickups.
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.
What s the difference between ceramic alnico magnet pickups.
Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues.
Alnico tends to produce a very musical pickup in most setups.
Let s listen to how they sound.
сравнение двух звукоснимателей с керамическими и алнико магнитами.
звукосниматель типа хамбакер.
The stronger magnetic field is also said to put out more high end frequencies potentially leading to a harsh and brittle tone.
Ceramic magnets are typically stronger than alnico magnets so they produce more output.
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.
You see ceramic is easier to come by than alnico making it a cheaper magnet to make.
The magnets are then allowed to cool in a magnetic field to pick up their magnetic charge.
Ceramic magnets are made of ceramic surprise.