You will find many extreme metal players using low output alnico pickups as well as blues guys using ceramic.
Ceramic pickups for blues.
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Whereas ceramic is used in metal as it sounds tight loud and cool.
The vintage blues series is build with high quality alnico v magnet wax potting 42awg copper wire.
They are specced at 7 43k ohm for the neck pickup and 8 13k for the bridge one so in line with other paf inspired pickups.
Seymour duncan claims that the alnico v magnet is used to compensate for lighter string gauges when compared to the past.
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Ceramic guitar pickups offer a sound that s bright and glassy with more cut and higher output than pickups made from other magnetic materials.
Look at alnico pickups if you want the most organic tone possible and consider ceramic pickups if you want a very straight laced and precise tone.
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Alnico you often hear that the sound of a pickup is dominated by the choice of magnet used in its construction.
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