Ceramic humbuckers on a semi hollow

"Ceramic humbuckers on a semi-hollow" are what one finds on the cheapest Ibanez AS73 guitars, for instance.

They sound better with other pickups but the problem with the stock ones is not their magnets, FWIW...
 
"Ceramic humbuckers on a semi-hollow" are what one finds on the cheapest Ibanez AS73 guitars, for instance.

They sound better with other pickups but the problem with the stock ones is not their magnets, FWIW...

What about the ones on the Fender Starcasters?
 
What about the ones on the Fender Starcasters?

No direct experience with these ones, sorry.

All I can say is that well designed ceramic loaded humbuckers should sound decent... All of them being not fire breathing monsters.
 
Semi hollows often have a dense and spikey slightly hollow basic sound, which will be enhanced with ceramic pickups.
I found that nylon bridge saddles brings me the mellow woody Gibson ES 335 sound of the 60ies.
 
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I have many semihollows with a assortment of pickups

They all have tone knobs to may the pickups darker or brighter

You can't tell what magnet is in any of them by playing them

I don't think there is a dramatically different sound with either ceramic or alnico
Or between the different flavors of alnico

The difference is very subtle between all of them

And unless you play them back to back you wont hear it

Like the different shades of dark green
 
I don't think you can put it down to the magnet, and certainly listening to a nice semi-hollow, I can't tell what kind of magnet is in the pickups. But for the kind of music I play, and what I like to hear and the amount of gain I am likely to use, I would probably choose something else if I was replacing the pickups in a guitar.
 
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