Ceramic Pickups Strat

Fender hot noiseless pickups also known as ceramic noiseless pickups originally developed for jeff beck these pickups use ceramic magnets and have a bigger sound than the vintage noiseless pickups which were a bit mellow for some tastes.

Ceramic pickups strat.

Classic output stratocaster pickups our period correct vintage output strat pickups ssl 1 that deliver all the authentic avail in other strings positions. 5 0 out of 5 stars wilkinson low gauss vintage tone ceramic single coil pickups set for strat style electric guitar. Well a standard single coil pickup usually consists of a set of magnet wrapped up in a thin wire. Reviewed in canada on june 24 2019.

These pickups are shorter than telecaster pickups and are not mounted onto a plate plus they also have a much higher output. The sound is clean warm and bluesy and screams at high gain. The result is a slightly hotter sounding pickup with more treble response. I put some seymour duncan pickups ssl1 alnico 5 on my fender strat and i just bought a squier telecaster bullet with the basic ceramic pickups both use the same kind of strings and both have locking tuners and both body are poplar wood and the difference is there.

A lot of people automatically say that alnico is superior to ceramic in pickups. Magnetically speaking ceramic magnets produce a stronger field than alnico. Ceramic magnets are made from ferrites often iron oxides. First you must understand what a strat pickup represents.

Ceramic pickups give me a way better tone and a perfect break up on my tube.