Ceramic Alnico Combo Humbuckers

Like epiphone s critically acclaimed probucker pickups new ceramic plus humbuckers feature 18 nickel silver unit bases bobbins tooled to exact gibson specifications elektrisola magnet wire.

Ceramic alnico combo humbuckers. Aluminum nickel and cobalt. You see ceramic is easier to come by than alnico making it a cheaper magnet to make. Whereas ceramic is used in metal as it sounds tight loud and cool. I can get 10 alnico magnets of the right size ready magnetized and with the north pole marked for less than 6.

Nashville tn july 7 2014 epiphone introduces the new ceramic plus humbucker the next step in the house of stathopoulo s ongoing crusade to merge the tone of the past with the tone of the future. I change ceramic magnets to alnico 5 magnets and compare the sound with before and after video. Humbuckers for blues jazz rock metal and everything in between. Second let s explain what s special about alnico.

сравнение двух звукоснимателей с керамическими и алнико магнитами. 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. He removed the ceramic magnets pushed out the steel slugs and slid in a set of alnico magnets. More sustain more harmonics from vintage to high output.

Alnico tends to produce a very musical pickup in most setups. 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. In the early 1930s in japan alloys of iron nickel and aluminum were found to display twice the strength of the best steel magnets of the time. звукосниматель типа хамбакер.

Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues. Alnico is an acronym comprising the first two letters of three different metallic elements. You often hear that the sound of a pickup is dominated by the choice of magnet used in its construction. Ceramic magnets are made of ceramic surprise.

The reason ceramic has a bad rap is probably due to its use. A lot of people automatically say that alnico is superior to ceramic in pickups.