They tend toward a response with less low end and a strong upper midrange.
Do lace pickups have ceramic magnets across the back.
I love humbuckers too same deal.
With windings like for like the ceramic will usually have a thicker less stratty sound with a chunkier midrange and less definition.
These have a very crisp high end and remain clear even with heavy distortion.
Yep measuring a pickup s dc resistance will not tell you if the magnets are alnico or ceramic.
These pickups are rare.
The ceramic pickup non magnetic poles plus bar magnet has a different tone from the classic alnico.
It s a neck pickup but i once fitted it into an old shaftesbury les paul at the neck position and it sounded nice.
They can also exert more string pull.
They are composed of iron oxide and strontium carbonate.
Some of my favorite pickups have ceramic magnets i like not love the sound of mim ceramic single coils they sound really stratty the 80 s mij low output ceramic pickups almost sound more vintage to me than real vintage pickups.
I have an authentic old p90 cream coloured with a fabric covered cable.
To my ear much of the personality of the strat is lost with this type of pickup.
A guitar pickup s magnet or magnets provide s the power that enables it to do its thing by sensing the movement of the guitar s steel strings when you play.
If you are a skilled designer of pickups looking to create the best sound from your instrument you have a choice between alnico and ceramic magnets when it comes to magnetic guitar pickups.
If just one or two magnets are used.
Alnico is a family of iron alloys which in addition to iron are composed primarily of aluminium al nickel ni and cobalt co hence acronym al ni co they also include copper and sometimes titanium alnico alloys are ferromagnetic and are used to make permanent magnets before the development of rare earth magnets in the 1970s they were the strongest type of permanent magnet.
While their hard brittle quality and low energy exclude them from some applications ceramic magnets have won wide acceptance due to their corrosion and demagnetization.
What is a ceramic magnet ceramic magnets also known as ferrite magnets were developed in the 1960 s as a low cost alternative to metallic magnets.
These are even stronger than alnico.
I love vintage a2 a3 a5 magnet pickups.
