Great in both positions or commonly paired with alnico neck.
Ceramic bridge alnico neck.
Bridge sounds like a classic metal bridge humbucker and the neck is a little cruncher brighter and snappier than your usual alnico neck.
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.
Both swapped to alnico 8 magnets.
You see ceramic is easier to come by than alnico making it a cheaper magnet to make.
All the musicality power and explosiveness of alnico.
Alnico 5 magnet for individual string clarity.
One of my ibanez came stock like that.
But in the bridge some say they are duller and i dont think that is entirely true it may sound like it.
I prefered it to my alnico slash pickup.
This was a gfs crunchy pat in the bridge ceramic and a gfs fat pat in the neck alnico 5.
Voice 1 modern active high output the ideal active ceramic humbucker tone.
The second guitar in my sloppy pickup magnet swap test.
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.
Crisp searing crunch tight bass with no mud and a growl.
Alnico 5 bridge and ceramic neck anyone.
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.
Ceramic magnets are made of ceramic surprise.
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.
It is the v7 v8 combo most people seem to hate but i don t have a problem with them.
Bridge humbucker introduced in 1994 to fit in rg400 series models.
Modern humbucker ceramic voicings.
Usually combined with infinity 1 in neck position and infinity single 1 in mid.
I think it s a pretty decent combination.