Ceramic Vs Alnico P90

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.

Ceramic vs alnico p90. Juke box active member. You see ceramic is easier to come by than alnico making it a cheaper magnet to make. A lot of people automatically say that alnico is superior to ceramic in pickups. I ve heard 2 s are spongy warm soft and 5s are tighter brighter snappy.

The reason ceramic has a bad rap is probably due to its use. Im looking at two pups and the only difference is the mags. Because the ceramic magnet isn t introducing compression the result is a cleaner sound in comparison to alnico. Alnico tends to produce a very musical pickup in most setups.

Ceramic magnets are made of ceramic surprise. So we often hear. You have a 15 it should have nice hot wound alnico 5 p90 s so enjoy. I appreciate any and all opinions.

Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues. You often hear that the sound of a pickup is dominated by the choice of magnet used in its construction. The old korean epi p90s are ceramic and don t sound as good imo mags are easily changed though. 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.

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. 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. Hey guys i m looking to upgrade my p90 pups and was wondering what you guys like better the alnico 2 or 5.