FLEOR Alnico 2 Humbucker Pickup HBA2 Electric Guitar Humbucker Neck and Bridge Pickup Set, Black

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.

I definitely prefer Alnico 2 over 5. I am able to play ceramic too, but prefer the mellow sound of these Fleor Alnico 2 pickups. I already ordered another set.

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.

These pickups sound great in my 2005 Ibanez RG3EX1 and brought it back to life! There's absolutely no reason anyone needs to be dropping lots of cash on pickups in this day and age. 4 stars only because it didn't come with any wiring chart and I had to look online for one. Otherwise I'm quite happy with them.

Updating review because I was unaware the differences between alnico 2 and ceramic pickups. I bought these alnico 2 pickups thinking they would sound good with heavy distortion but was wrong. I ended up removing these and getting a pair of ceramic fleor pickups. Much much better. I don’t care about sound like something from the 50’s. It’s 2026, ceramics are the way for me.

These pickups are fantastic. Excellent tone and clarity. Standard 4 conductor wiring. I typically use Dimarzio or Seymour Duncans, these honestly rate up there with them. The bridge pickup has really nice definition and punch without being overly bright. The Neck pickup is clear without being too bassy. I would say the bridge is just the slightest bit under powered compared to the neck. 12k might be better BUT lowering the neck a tad evens things up and they do compliment each other well. I also always install the Yamaha Dry Circuit with Humbuckers and it sounds great with these making a very versatile combination.

Can't beat the price, and for my tastes in sound, these were a nice improvement over the 85/15S that came in my PRS SE CE 24. Set up the coil split without resistors, which is something I might change as you do get a bit of reduced volume when you switch, but they sound nice in single coil mode. I play mostly fairly clean setting, and just on the edge of gain driven distortion, For how I play they sound great.

So i ordered these for a project but sadly only the neck pickup worked. The bridge pickup couldn't be saved. However, the neck pickup sounded great.