AlNiCo VS Ceramic Pickups If you're into guitar or bass guitar pickups and mods, you probably hear the words "AlNiCo" and "Ceramic" a lot. These terms refer to the magnetic bar located inside the actual guitar pickup of your guitar. Most guitar manufacturers mention the pickup types they use on each guitar model but some [...]
HSMAG Customer Contribution: What’s the Deal with Alnico VIII Magnets? I was talking to some of the Seymour Duncan dudes the other day about pickups models deserving greater public awareness. One of the first names on everyone’s lips was the Alternative 8, a a high-output humbucker that uses a powerful alnico VIII magnet in lieu [...]
Alnico Pickups Ask any experienced player and they’ll tell you that you really need alnico pickups if you want the optimum in tone, touch sensitivity, and dynamics—at least if they’ve swallowed the hype that most of the chat-o-sphere has perpetuated for years. After all, aren’t alnico-loaded pickups truly better than those made with [...]
