Strat Mix Ceramic Bar Alnico

Bangdan alnico 2 bar magnet 2 5 x 5 x 125 for humbucker and p90 pickups 2 pcs magnetized.

Strat mix ceramic bar alnico.

Wilkinson low gauss vintage tone ceramic st strat single coil pickup for stratocaster guitar middle white. Thick or thin i have never ever seen any other color ceramic. 4 personally i prefer the alnico single coils for the reasons i listed in 1. 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. Get it as soon as thu oct 8. 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.

The ceramic pickup non magnetic poles plus bar magnet has a different tone from the classic alnico. Strats are always alnico poles unless there is a mag attached to the bottom then the poles are generally 1018 or 1022 slugs. 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. The bar magnet on a humbucker or mini whether alnico or ceramic is tucked away inside.

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. Alnico vs ceramic magnets. To my ear much of the personality of the strat is lost with this type of pickup. With windings like for like the ceramic will usually have a thicker less stratty sound with a chunkier midrange and less definition.

Humbuckers come with alnico or ceramic magnets and people mix them all the time. Alnico seems to be the popular favorite but on the other hand there is no shortage of popular recordings that feature ceramic pickups. 4 7 out of 5 stars 63.