Ceramic Vs Alnico P90

So we often hear.

Ceramic vs alnico p90.

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. Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues. Ceramic magnets are made of ceramic surprise. You have a 15 it should have nice hot wound alnico 5 p90 s so enjoy.

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. I ve run through a half dozen p90 makers for various guitars. Whereas ceramic is used in metal as it sounds tight loud and cool. You often hear that the sound of a pickup is dominated by the choice of magnet used in its construction.

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. 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. Because the ceramic magnet isn t introducing compression the result is a cleaner sound in comparison to alnico. The old korean epi p90s are ceramic and don t sound as good imo mags are easily changed though.

A lot of people automatically say that alnico is superior to ceramic in pickups. The reason ceramic has a bad rap is probably due to its use. Some folks might liken the difference between alnico and ceramic speakers to the difference between tube and solid state amplifiers where one compresses smoothly and the other gives all it has and then clips hard. Wildeman jan 8 2019 5.

Alnico tends to produce a very musical pickup in most setups. I appreciate any and all opinions. I ve heard 2 s are spongy warm soft and 5s are tighter brighter snappy. Im looking at two pups and the only difference is the mags.