Ceramic Vs Alnico P90

You have a 15 it should have nice hot wound alnico 5 p90 s so enjoy.

Ceramic vs alnico p90. You see ceramic is easier to come by than alnico making it a cheaper magnet to make. Hey guys i m looking to upgrade my p90 pups and was wondering what you guys like better the alnico 2 or 5. I ve run through a half dozen p90 makers for various guitars. 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.

You often hear that the sound of a pickup is dominated by the choice of magnet used in its construction. So we often hear. Whereas ceramic is used in metal as it sounds tight loud and cool. Alnico tends to produce a very musical pickup in most setups.

Don t know who makes the onlymusic vintage dog ear 35 but it s a reasonable p90 dogear for the money installed on an epi junior. Juke box active member. Because the ceramic magnet isn t introducing compression the result is a cleaner sound in comparison to alnico. Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues.

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. Wildeman jan 8 2019 5. I have not knowingly installed an artec but i ve installed a ka 30 in a 160e clone acoustic like it a lot their mini hums are a bargain too. I appreciate any and all opinions.

I ve heard 2 s are spongy warm soft and 5s are tighter brighter snappy. Ceramic magnets are made of ceramic surprise. Im looking at two pups and the only difference is the mags. A lot of people automatically say that alnico is superior to ceramic in pickups.