Busting A BIG Guitar Myth!!

Nice demonstration D! Helpful to many, Bustin' Them Myths! We're all Guilty of perpetuating them until we know Better! Well done and thanks for sharing brother!

The whole industry depends on the fervent hope that whatever sounds best is whatever isn't in your guitar.

The biggest myth in guitar history is that it gets you girls.

Had to put it to the Test. Recorded an open D string . Once using a ceramic pickup, once using an alnico. Lined the 2 waveforms up and compared them. The ceramic was not too far from a regular sinewave, close to a piano waveform, rolling peaks and not a lot of harmonic content. The alnico was full of jagged peaks throughout the wave much more like a violin and full of harmonic content. Ceramics give a warm sound with a lot of fundamental frequency when clean and a controlled sound at super high gain. Alnicos are full of harmonic content and top end with an incredible musical response to the way you play and I love `em.

This is specifically why I stopped engaging in guitar forums. You get guys recommending magnet swaps all day to fix a problem with "tone", and then you realize the "advisor" just sucks at playing and dialing in their amp/eq.

I don't really care about pickups that much they tend to sound the same once I run them through 3 boss metal zones and tune lower than drop F Im kidding btw great vid Darrel

4:41- "We'll talk about where some of these things come from." From guitar snobs.

don't trust guitar forums, only trust your ears

What did I learn from this video, “I need a Tele with a P90 in the neck!”

They sounded a little different but both sounded very good.

Bleeding love the sound of the ceramics in that Tele. Holy hells. That just sounded amazing. Warm and wonderful.

100% agree I just purchased a squire contemporary jazz bass with ceramic active pickups and it’s soo much warmer then anything I played before. I’m pro ceramic from now on 👍🏻

These are my favourite videos to make - bustin' some myths :) Is this one you guys had heard before? If you have any "common misconceptions" you want me to challenge let me know in the comments!

Great demonstration, fair and unbiased. I believe you have nailed the differences accurately and to my ears spot on. Great job!

To my ears, alnico souded brighter, tipical strat sounding, reminds me of a clean John Mayer sound. Ceramics seemed warmer, with more low end. Both sounded AWESOME and had their own characteristics. Thank you for the great video.

I wind my own guitar pickups, and I've made about thirty so far. I've tried different types of alnico rod magets, 2,3,4 and 5. The stronger the magnet strength, the louder and brighter the pickup sounds, using the same magnet diameter and length, bobbin size and turns of wire. I personally don't like alnico 5 magnets in Strat style pickups, because they're too bright. I don't give a damn about output, because I'm not trying to overdrive an amp, so I use alnico 2 and 3, mostly. I've also mixed alnico 2 and 4 in the same bobbin, which sounds very nice. Some cheap Squier Strats use ceramic magnets with bobbins that only measure 3.7K. They use more powerful ceramics to boost the pickup's output to compensate for fewer turns of wire. A slightly stronger ceramic magnet is apparently cheaper than copper wire and the additional time it takes to put more windings on a coil. Fewer turns of wire seems to have an effect on the attack and dynamic range of the pickup as well, fewer turns = faster attack and less compression/more dynamic range. These are not good things, if they don't suit your playing style. If you do like more attack and dynamics, then a Charlie Christian style pickup will give you that, with the heavier gauge wire on the coil augmenting those characteristics. I've also wound Strat style pickups with larger p90 sized bobbins and 38, 39, 40 and 41 gauge wire, FWIW, and I'm well aware of the effects of wire gauge as a result.

Ever since I found you on YouTube, I have followed your videos. Excellent information every time. I am 72, been playing guitar for 60 years. Been in two BIG touring bands. I REALLY enjoy your videos, Thank You.

Myth destroyed!! Thank you!

What i always love about this channel is all the content is real stuff. This guy knows what he's talking about and what he's doing of course. İ always find what im looking for in the content of the video. Never disappointed. Keep up the awesome work Darrell ! Loves from Turkey

Another myth: Shielding eliminates single coil hum.