Injector Pickup With Ceramic Magnets

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.

Injector pickup with ceramic magnets.

However this is simply a. As far as the magnets are concerned something that strong would interfere with the vibration of the string and pull the note sharp as well as completely screw up your intonation. He was complaining that it sounded muddy. Pickup height with big ceramic magnets i was at a friends house today who recently put a dd in his guitar after i recommended it to him.

That s why the exact same pickup will sound a bit hotter if it uses a ceramic magnet instead of an alnico one. The one with the stronger magnetic field. The seymour duncan jb is a very famous example of a superb and highly regarded pickup with a ceramic bar magnet and indeed it s courtesy of the ceramic magnet that the unit is able to deliver its distinctive powerful and. Whereas ceramic is used in metal as it sounds tight loud and cool.

The neck pickup did have the mounting ears. Ceramic magnets are not however inherently worse than alnicos. To my ear much of the personality of the strat is lost with this type of pickup. You often hear that the sound of a pickup is dominated by the choice of magnet used in its construction.

If the alnico v and ceramic bars have the same size and volume the ceramic magnet is usually a bit stronger. So we often hear. I also don t get warbling because of the way i have the magnets set up. With windings like for like the ceramic will usually have a thicker less stratty sound with a chunkier midrange and less definition.

Which pickup will sound hotter and more powerful. Some of the other mm pickups use steel poles and ceramic magnets under the poles. Well made pickups with ceramic magnets can be fantastic. Both magnets were oriented the same way and i took pains to make sure the new pairs were because the stewmac magnets are half the height i used two in each.

2 guitarcapo 3 years ago i have an electromatic corvette that had megatron pickups with ceramic magnets. Cheaper to produce and more readily available than alnico ceramic aka ferrite magnets sometimes get a bad rap in the pickup world but that s largely from the way they were used in the early days of ceramic pickups and not due to any failing in the material itself. Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues. The stock pickups on the stingrays use alnico rod magnets.

Stronger magnets and or higher output doesn t mean better. The ceramic pickup non magnetic poles plus bar magnet has a different tone from the classic alnico. They don t really pull more than the alnicos but they sound different. Ceramic magnets are made of ceramic surprise.

When i got to his house i saw that he had it up very high like you would do with an a2 or a weaker magnet pickup.