Modern humbucker gold set 1 alnico neck 1 ceramic bridge original and totally re imagined fishman fluence pickups are free from the hum noise and frustrating inductance issues that plague even the most coveted wire wound pickups revealing pure uncorrupted and musical tone.
Ceramic bridge alnico neck.
Alnico 5 bridge and ceramic neck anyone.
Bridge humbucker introduced in 1994 to fit in rg400 series models.
Usually combined with infinity 1 in neck position and infinity single 1 in mid.
The emg retro active hot 70 set utilizes ceramic magnets in the bridge and alnico 5 in the neck producing high output van halen and zz top like tone of the late 70 s.
Tight driving lead pickup with excellent dynamics.
Voice 1 modern active high output the ideal active ceramic humbucker tone.
I have a ceramic neck pickup in my guitar as i found it had a better top end really cut through and a decent amount of mid and lower end.
This was a gfs crunchy pat in the bridge ceramic and a gfs fat pat in the neck alnico 5.
Alnico 5 magnet for individual string clarity.
The second guitar in my sloppy pickup magnet swap test.
I prefered it to my alnico slash pickup.
One of my ibanez came stock like that.
Bridge sounds like a classic metal bridge humbucker and the neck is a little cruncher brighter and snappier than your usual alnico neck.
You see ceramic is easier to come by than alnico making it a cheaper magnet to make.
But in the bridge some say they are duller and i dont think that is entirely true it may sound like it.
Both swapped to alnico 8 magnets.
Wilkinson zebra humbucker double coil pickups wvhz neck bridge alnico 5 magnet copper nickel base for electric guitar 1 set 5 0 out of 5 stars 6 60 88 60.
I think it s a pretty decent combination.
Brutal active aggression and passive punch in the same guitar.
It is the v7 v8 combo most people seem to hate but i don t have a problem with them.
Great in both positions or commonly paired with alnico neck.
Modern humbucker ceramic voicings.
This traditional open coil design set has a vintage look that players love.
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.