Alnico pickups provide a warmer sound and generally have a little more bass response.
Ceramic pickups fender.
Since leo fender initially introduced it in 1954 the traditional fender stratocaster has been known to have three single coil pickups and in the six plus decades since that historic day that design hasn t changed much.
Ceramic pickups generally offer a brighter and more glassy sound.
5 how long has fender been using ceramic single coil p.
Ceramic pickups give me a way better tone and a perfect break up on my tube.
The sound is clean warm and bluesy and screams at high gain.
It is no exaggeration to say that the precision with its unique sound shaped not one but many musical theatres.
4 which do you prefer and why.
From early blues through the embryonic rock.
1 what are the major differences in fenders alnico single coil pickups and the ceramics.
Sure enough fender started making pickups with alnico magnets as early as the late 1940s.
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If you own a precision bass that is not a 1962 model maybe it s a copy or a japanese version then here is your chance to acquire that sound.
Back then alnico was the high tech material of the age and fender continued to use it through the 1950s and 1960s.
2 why do the alnicos tend to be brighter.
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.
3 are the alnicos really superior quality to the ceramics or just different.
Fender literally wrote the book on electric basses laying the foundation for musical innovation and evolution.
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That being said single coil pickups have certainly evolved over the years allowing players to get different tones while staying within the parameters of a strat.