What Seymour Duncan pedal would you like to see next?

[sosomething]

Re: What Seymour Duncan pedal would you like to see next?

I'd love to see a direct box for acoustic guitar and vocals that includes the best features of Mama Bear, Solstice and Equinox with an added tuner/mute.

Now that's an interesting idea. And very practical.

What would you consider to be the best features of those 3 products?

I would like to see the birth of the virtual pickup: A module/pickup thing that you install in your guitar that is linked to a pedal and you can choose between different pickups by switching the pedal. The software inside will emulate the specific characteristics of the selected pickup, a la amplutube. Digital revolution baby! Pretty sure the technology is there already.

Just think about it, never have to swap magnets or pickups again, the one pickup that will do anything!

I think what you're describing would be very, very similar to the current Variax technology. The only issue with that would be size. I don't think the board for such a thing could fit in a standard humbucker housing at the moment, and if the processing were moved to a pedal, I don't know if the necessary information from the pickup could be transmitted over a standard instrument cable. Not saying it can't be done, only that I imagine a significant amount of R&D would have to go into making it work.

Chorus.

Absolutely not. Impossible. The next pedal will definitely not be a Chorus. Especially not one with an independent mix knob and expression control.

[Nightburst]

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Yeah i mean that the pickup is just a clean signal reciever/sender (like others already mentioned) and the pedal will have all the modulation done inside so you can select the pickup voicing you want. Lol yeah kinda like the line 6 M-line pedals do.
I would absolutely buy this in a hearthbeat if it sounds half as decent as the M-line pedals modulation.

[GuitarStv]

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Chorus.

The Deja Vu works fine as an analog chorus.

[IMENATOR]

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I would also like to see SDs take on Chorus.

[crguti]

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Bass wah/fuzz

[Dahla]

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I need a pedal that produces the correct amount of feedback according to how far forward I rock the pedal.

I'd love to see a direct box for acoustic guitar and vocals that includes the best features of Mama Bear, Solstice and Equinox with an added tuner/mute.

Ooooh, I like these two!

And I'd like a pedal that does the opposite of the pickup booster pedal: a pickup reducer pedal. Could be cool for us who have humbuckers and not single coils.


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[ehdwuld]

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Ooooh, I like these two!

And I'd like a pedal that does the opposite of the pickup booster pedal: a pickup reducer pedal. Could be cool for us who have humbuckers and not single coils.


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That's an EQ pedal

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[Dahla]

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That's an EQ pedal

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What do you mean? Is the pickup booster pedal just an eq?


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[DreX]

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The Boss GT-3 and and ME-70/ME-80 have humbucker->single coil and single coil->humbucker simulation modes as a point reference. It's pretty convincing, I can't tell if its just imposing an EQ profile or what.

[ehdwuld]

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I'm saying an EQ pedal can do a pickup reducing function
and a boosting function to a point

with my EQ pedal I can simulate the snap and bite of a single coil by pulling back on the bass faders and punching up the mids

I can also EQ a single coil to be a bit more bassy and humbuckerish by pulling back a bit on the treble and punching up the low mids

in case you haven't noticed
I like mids

[Evan Skopp]

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Now that's an interesting idea. And very practical.

What would you consider to be the best features of those 3 products?

For Mama Bear, it's the digital emulation. This DI box wouldn't need 16 input sources and 16 target instruments, but maybe three of each.

For Solstice, it's the mic pres, channel splitting, phase reverse, the FX loops, graphic EQ and as many 1/4" and XLR ins and outs as the box could fit.

For Equinox, it's the dual notch filters.

Plus the tuner/mute. And I'd love the whole thing to work both on the floor or on a mic stand with an adaptor.

[sosomething]

Re: What Seymour Duncan pedal would you like to see next?

For Mama Bear, it's the digital emulation. This DI box wouldn't need 16 input sources and 16 target instruments, but maybe three of each.

For Solstice, it's the mic pres, channel splitting, phase reverse, the FX loops, graphic EQ and as many 1/4" and XLR ins and outs as the box could fit.

For Equinox, it's the dual notch filters.

Plus the tuner/mute. And I'd love the whole thing to work both on the floor or on a mic stand with an adaptor.

Thank you, Evan. I've just submitted this idea to the idea box.

Not that you couldn't just pick up the phone and convince someone yourself, I'm sure, but hey - it's the idea box!

[beaubrummels]

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For Mama Bear, it's the digital emulation. This DI box wouldn't need 16 input sources and 16 target instruments, but maybe three of each.

I would have bought a Baby Bear if you made one - just one guitar sound (ok maybe two) - I don't need/want all the different guitars in one box, I just need my J200 to sound like a J200 when it's plugged in. Can't afford the full Mama Bear in my budget and wouldn't use all of it because it's overkill for my needs, but the tech sounds great and I might have been able to squeeze something 1/3 or 1/4 the price in if it existed.

[Progbusters]

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i like fixed wah. Not a lot of those pedals out there.

[Evan Skopp]

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I would have bought a Baby Bear if you made one - just one guitar sound (ok maybe two) - I don't need/want all the different guitars in one box, I just need my J200 to sound like a J200 when it's plugged in. Can't afford the full Mama Bear in my budget and wouldn't use all of it because it's overkill for my needs, but the tech sounds great and I might have been able to squeeze something 1/3 or 1/4 the price in if it existed.

The original plan was to make a Baby Bear along the lines of what you're describing. And a Papa Bear that pretty much combined all thee D-TAR boxes and more into a rack-mount unit. And a software plug-in. But there were some structural problems with the way D-TAR was organized and funded that made it difficult to move forward with projects like these. Hopefully, now that Seymour Duncan owns D-TAR, they'll be able to give it the attention it--and the market--deserves.