How Good Is The Duncan Pickup Booster?

[smashed39]

For boosting gain and lead? Im using a DSL 100 and am looking to get a good high gain. hard rock metally tone like GNR Metallicaish. I have heard great things about the pickupbooster for not only adding gain but not adding feedback and making the notes and chords sound more warm.

 

[bloodswords]

Re: How Good Is The Duncan Pickup Booster?

from your description, IMO you need more drive instead of more gain. you are better of with a mild drive booster BOSS OD-3/ DS-1/ Ibanez Tubescreamer/ etc.

i'm using the Duncan pickup booster mainly for single coil pickups, these manifest the boost better than humbuckers which are already 'fat' sounding by default.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: How Good Is The Duncan Pickup Booster?

It's GREAT for what it is...A CLEAN BOOST. If you want a boost with grit on it's own look into an overdrive pedal or better yet a Banzai Coldfusion!

 

[jeremy]

Re: How Good Is The Duncan Pickup Booster?

i think it works very well as a lead boost on a overdriven tube amp

 

[More-Gear-Than-Skill]

Re: How Good Is The Duncan Pickup Booster?

very good, but you want a turbo rat. Go get one today, yeah!

 

[smashed39]

Re: How Good Is The Duncan Pickup Booster?

Im really digging the tone of a turbo rat. would this be a good boost pedal good enough for high gain and classic gain styled stuff to boost the DSL OD.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: How Good Is The Duncan Pickup Booster?

The Duncan Pickup Booster was designed, in my opinion, to make a vintage output single coil Strat pickup sound like a full size paf or hotter humbucker.

That's what it does best...in my opinion.

Lew

 

[Duke of Metal]

Re: How Good Is The Duncan Pickup Booster?

MXR Microamp will do the job. its a clean booster. I use one infront of my rig for a tad more kick to the drive since my bridge pickup has a cover on it.

I am assuming you want to drive an already distorted/highgain amp for a bit more drive? if so, then the MXR Microamp will do the job perfectly.


Cheers

 

[More-Gear-Than-Skill]

Re: How Good Is The Duncan Pickup Booster?

Well, these days, "hi gain" is so relative! AC/DC might have been accused of using high gain, but these days, that's a clean tone, y'know? I believe all that early metallica stuff was a rat, and nothing but.. But hey, who knows. They have volume and gain, so you could do almost straight up signal boost (no added dirt), or a fifthy low level opposite. I have a straight RAT, and it's as dirty as i need to ever get. Check the range out, theyre nice....

Wow, EVERYONE uses one! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Co_RAT

 

[noisenet]

Re: How Good Is The Duncan Pickup Booster?

In run a Pickup Booster into my rig, which does include a DSL100 and love it. I run the DSL on the green channel, classic gain mode (most of the time), from which I get just enough gain for my rhythm tone, then I kick in the P/U Booster for solos. I dial the knob on the pedal to about 8:00, so it's not a tremendous amount of boost, but perfect for smoothing out single note solos.

The pedal will give as high as a 25dB boost in your signal, so you'll likely get as much boost as you'd need.

For a more SRV-style tone, I drop the gain on my DSL to around "6" and dial the gain on the P/U Booster to 10:00. Sweet snarling tone.

BTW - I use a mexican strat loaded with a duncan lil screamin demon in the bridge, DiMarzio HS-2 in the middle and YJM in the neck. Al of these are low output pickups, a good deal lower output than most other strat pickups, but great tone.

 

[MartinSixStringCustoms]

Re: How Good Is The Duncan Pickup Booster?

It's GREAT for what it is...A CLEAN BOOST. If you want a boost with grit on it's own look into an overdrive pedal or better yet a Banzai Coldfusion!

+1

Some folks seem to think its a gain box and its definitely not.

 

[baritone]

Re: How Good Is The Duncan Pickup Booster?

I think I finally understand this pedal. I haven't used one, but it gives the option of clean/transparent volume boost, or you can trim the high frequencies with that little switch to simluate a humbucker pickup response. I am content using an equalizer in both situations.