Alnico 2 Humbucker Pickup 8-9K Electric Guitar Pickup Bridge Humbucker, White

I have been searching for years for a humbucker that sounds as good as my Gibson '57 Classic Plus and this is it. Also sounds really similar to my Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates pickup. Apparently, I must like the Alnico II sound, because all my favorite humbuckers use that type of magnet.I purchased two humbuckers to install in one of my strats in an HH configuration. I was so pleased with the bridge humbucker that I bought another bridge humbucker to install in an HSS configured strat.These pickups are more than worth the money.I highly recommend these pickups.

These are some amazing sounding pickups. They punch way above their price point.

These pickups are made by Artec of Korea, the world's largest manufacturer of guitar pickups. If you have played a medium to low-priced guitar made by anyone, even the 'big three', chances are you have used Artec pickups. These Alinco 2 pickups are warm, smooth, and focused, perfect for jazz, blues, pop, soft rock, etc. They can be overdriven into hard rock/metal range and will perform well. But like any quality Alnico 2 pickup, they shine when played au naturel.Update: Recently sat down with a professional guitarist. She had a new Gibson Les Paul Custom 50s with a Burstbucker 1 Alnico 2 in the neck and a Burstbucker 2 Alnico 2 in the bridge position, as it came from Gibson. In a side-by-side comparison with the Gibson Les Paul and the Les Paul partscaster I built utilizing these pickups, it was a dead heat. The Fleor pickups matched the Gibsons in tone, depth, warmth, strength, output, and every other comparison, clean and dirty. I was amazed. I knew these were outstanding pickups, but wow. But the big surprise came when she said she would have no problem taking my partscaster into the studio. The Fleors sounded that good.

I was impressed with the sound of this pickup.I was looking fir a low output that would work with my single coils.This works good with a coil split.It also has a with range.

I put these into a chibson les paul that I've had for years to try and get a budget Slash APH-1/2 sound. These don't sound as good as the much much more expensive seymour duncans, but they sound SERIOUSLY better than the stock ceramic pickups that came in the guitar. They have a ton of personality and a very clear and singsongy sound. They get nice and crunchy and have a really dynamic sound that I didn't feel like the stock pickups did. I will definitely remember Fleor in the future when I go pickup shopping.

I'm very happy with this pickup for that price.To get a little better you would have to spend a lot more with the big brands. If you're on a good budget pickup don't go any further. It is very sensitive when adjusting the screws. Very easy to balance all the strings. I find it very similar to a Gibson PAF.The sound is also satisfactory when split, but of course it does not compete with a real single coil like any other humbucker.If I ever need a 9k alnico V humbucker again, I'll pick it up again. I'm now curious to hear the alnico II from the same brand.

I got these pickups for a budget build based on other reviews. They sound OK, and worth the price, but they came shipped loose in a bag and were missing a set of mounting screws and springs. The shipping bag oddly contained the empty, but not ripped, original packing bag that the pickups would have come in. They didn't look used and I had another set of screws and springs (needed to re-tap the holes), but it was not a big deal. Overall, just OK.

Oh man, I've wanted to try alnico pups for a while but didn't want to pay $200 for Seymours. Gave these a shot, what the heck $20 - $30 is no big deal. Worth a shot. Hit the jackpot imo. The more I use these, the more I love them. There is something about them I can't explain properly. A certain nuance to the responsiveness to your picking I guess. They just sound musical, if that makes any sense. Maybe it's a compression thing? The previous pickups sounded fine tonewise but there is a certain stiffness to the sound that makes them sound lifeless.That's the best I can do to describe the difference. Just bending a note and listening to the sound of the note being bent or using vibrato on a sustained note. Maybe it's just a normal alnico thing vs ceramic, I don't know. I just love them. I find myself playing more and actually relishing the sound of each note and paying attention to my picking dynamics. Yeah, maybe the other pickups were just horrible and make these seem better (to me) than they really are. All I know is that I don't see myself swapping these out.As for the negative, eh maybe the lows are a little muddy and don't pack the punch that the previous pickups had. To me that's extremely minor and well worth the trade-off. Also, I play mostly clean or with light overdrive so I don't know how they fare in high gain situations.