I have an authentic old p90 cream coloured with a fabric covered cable.
Do lace pickups have ceramic magnets across the back.
Adams magnetic products supports the music industry every day by supplying high quality alnico and ceramic magnets for every style pickup made.
I bought a pair of the warman humbucker sized p90 pickups with ceramic pickups and i find them too harsh in both neck and bridge positions.
While their hard brittle quality and low energy exclude them from some applications ceramic magnets have won wide acceptance due to their corrosion and demagnetization.
If just one or two magnets are used.
Yep measuring a pickup s dc resistance will not tell you if the magnets are alnico or ceramic.
These are even stronger than alnico.
The ceramic pickup non magnetic poles plus bar magnet has a different tone from the classic alnico.
To my ear much of the personality of the strat is lost with this type of pickup.
They can also exert more string pull.
Different types of guitar pickups use different numbers of magnets usually one two or six depending on their design.
With windings like for like the ceramic will usually have a thicker less stratty sound with a chunkier midrange and less definition.
Alnico is a family of iron alloys which in addition to iron are composed primarily of aluminium al nickel ni and cobalt co hence acronym al ni co they also include copper and sometimes titanium alnico alloys are ferromagnetic and are used to make permanent magnets before the development of rare earth magnets in the 1970s they were the strongest type of permanent magnet.
I love humbuckers too same deal.
If you are a skilled designer of pickups looking to create the best sound from your instrument you have a choice between alnico and ceramic magnets when it comes to magnetic guitar pickups.
They are composed of iron oxide and strontium carbonate.
I love vintage a2 a3 a5 magnet pickups.
They tend toward a response with less low end and a strong upper midrange.
A guitar pickup s magnet or magnets provide s the power that enables it to do its thing by sensing the movement of the guitar s steel strings when you play.
These have a very crisp high end and remain clear even with heavy distortion.
These pickups are rare.
