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Lewguitar
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My buddy AJ came by yesterday and we spent an hour or so playing together and comparing the Duncan PB to the Boss DS-1. We had a ball!
We took turns playing my Strat with Antiquitys and '54 Tele into my '66 Deluxe Reverb, '58 tweed Deluxe and '51 tweed Super/Dual Professional.
Both of us loved the Duncan PB! We both own DS-1's and are pretty familiar with them. AJ uses his all the time...his is always on whenever he plays. I use my DS-1 only ocassionally because my amps are all tweaked to be very sensitive anyway. I don't really need an overdrive to get overdrive.
Anyways, the Duncan PB is more transparant than the DS-1. Not as honky. And it cleans up beautifully when I lower the volume on my guitar, similar to the way my DS-1 does but even clearer. :dance:
For some tones, like if I want my Tele to sound like Jeff Beck's Les Paul on the Truth album, the higher resonance and resonant honk of the DS-1 coaxes
some notes to feedback and sustain more easily. I like to play in G and A alot and get a nice growly resonant honk when I up pick the low G on my low E. The DS-1 brought out that resonant honk a little better...but it's not as clear and transparant as the Duncan PB.
The resonanace of the Duncan PB is switchable but the voicing is a lower resonance than the DS-1. The idea is to add depth and a fatter tone to a single coil pickup to make it sound a little more like a humbucker.
I think it's a great pedal!
We each took turns playing through one and then the other and then I plugged AJ into the Duncan PB and that into the DS-1 and turned them both on! :dance: I just listened to AJ play through my tweed Deluxe. My tweed Deluxes are tweaked and each have a UK made Celestion G12 Alnico speaker from the 60's in them and sound like a little 18 watt Marshall.
I swear, AJ was playing my Tele and sounded like Jimi Hendrix! He's a Hendrix nut anyway and can pull it off through most rigs but he was working out on on his take of Voodoo Chile and was nailing the feel and getting most of the tone. Especially the semi clean and growly bluesy licks on the lower wound strings.
So I'll give the Duncan Pickup Booster a big thumbs up! And the Boss DS-1 too.
And we found that just as the instructions said, the guitar sounded best plugged into the Duncan Pickup Booster first and then the output of that into other effects. Plugging the DS-1 into the Pickup Booster was cool...but the tone was smoother and much better with the PB plugged into the DS-1.
If you play a Strat, don't rout out that puppy for a bridge humbucker: just get a Duncan Pickup Booster!
We took turns playing my Strat with Antiquitys and '54 Tele into my '66 Deluxe Reverb, '58 tweed Deluxe and '51 tweed Super/Dual Professional.
Both of us loved the Duncan PB! We both own DS-1's and are pretty familiar with them. AJ uses his all the time...his is always on whenever he plays. I use my DS-1 only ocassionally because my amps are all tweaked to be very sensitive anyway. I don't really need an overdrive to get overdrive.
Anyways, the Duncan PB is more transparant than the DS-1. Not as honky. And it cleans up beautifully when I lower the volume on my guitar, similar to the way my DS-1 does but even clearer. :dance:
For some tones, like if I want my Tele to sound like Jeff Beck's Les Paul on the Truth album, the higher resonance and resonant honk of the DS-1 coaxes
some notes to feedback and sustain more easily. I like to play in G and A alot and get a nice growly resonant honk when I up pick the low G on my low E. The DS-1 brought out that resonant honk a little better...but it's not as clear and transparant as the Duncan PB.
The resonanace of the Duncan PB is switchable but the voicing is a lower resonance than the DS-1. The idea is to add depth and a fatter tone to a single coil pickup to make it sound a little more like a humbucker.
I think it's a great pedal!
We each took turns playing through one and then the other and then I plugged AJ into the Duncan PB and that into the DS-1 and turned them both on! :dance: I just listened to AJ play through my tweed Deluxe. My tweed Deluxes are tweaked and each have a UK made Celestion G12 Alnico speaker from the 60's in them and sound like a little 18 watt Marshall.
I swear, AJ was playing my Tele and sounded like Jimi Hendrix! He's a Hendrix nut anyway and can pull it off through most rigs but he was working out on on his take of Voodoo Chile and was nailing the feel and getting most of the tone. Especially the semi clean and growly bluesy licks on the lower wound strings.
So I'll give the Duncan Pickup Booster a big thumbs up! And the Boss DS-1 too.
And we found that just as the instructions said, the guitar sounded best plugged into the Duncan Pickup Booster first and then the output of that into other effects. Plugging the DS-1 into the Pickup Booster was cool...but the tone was smoother and much better with the PB plugged into the DS-1.
If you play a Strat, don't rout out that puppy for a bridge humbucker: just get a Duncan Pickup Booster!
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