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[leevc5]

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Re: SD Pickup Booster straight forward queaston

Well, even 'broad tonal range' is subjective. Antiquites are clean, clear, and open. So is the Jazz. Both are great with additional EQ, or not.

Is it really subjective? Aren't Resonant Peak, Q factor and Capacitance quantitative measurements that indicate the tonal range or profile of a pickup?

 

[leevc5]

Re: SD Pickup Booster straight forward queaston

Re: SD Pickup Booster straight forward queaston

the right pup is the one that works best for you in a specific guitar.

i play one guitar all night unless i break a string then i use the backup. if i break a string on the backup then i have crappy luck and need to change a string. my backup might be totally different than the other one and thats fine. almost any of my guitars can cover the blues/rock stuff i do and sound good doing it with a simple rig. are some guitars more suited to one thing over another, sure, but that doesnt mean they cant sound great anyway.

what type of band are you in that you are demanded to lug six guitars to a gig to please the audience? the audience knows there is a guitar player and maybe if they suck or not. thats about it. the guitar players in the audience will notice a lot more but they are the minority usually.

eq pedals are great for shaping sound but i dont think they make one pup sound like another. sure you can take a 59 and pull back some bottom, add some mids, and cut some high end but that doesnt make it sound like an aph

If you don't mind me asking what is your #1 guitar and what pups are you using in it?

 

[jeremy]

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Re: SD Pickup Booster straight forward queaston

i dont know if i have a #1 but ive been using four guitars recently. a homemade alder hardtail strat with a trio of antiquity II jaguar bridge pups, a washburn wms with antiquity humbuckers, a hamer monaco elite with pearly gates set, and a homemade chambered teleish thing with seth lover neck and double screw a2 brobucker bridge.

Is it really subjective? Aren't Resonant Peak, Q factor and Capacitance quantitative measurements that indicate the tonal range or profile of a pickup?

those are quantitative things but only looking at those things wont necessarily get you the best pup for your guitar/amp/pedal/hands setup

 

[leevc5]

Re: SD Pickup Booster straight forward queaston

Re: SD Pickup Booster straight forward queaston

i dont know if i have a #1 but ive been using four guitars recently. a homemade alder hardtail strat with a trio of antiquity II jaguar bridge pups, a washburn wms with antiquity humbuckers, a hamer monaco elite with pearly gates set, and a homemade chambered teleish thing with seth lover neck and double screw a2 brobucker bridge.



those are quantitative things but only looking at those things wont necessarily get you the best pup for your guitar/amp/pedal/hands setup

antiquity's come up two out of four. I currently think (for some reason different pups seem to sound better based on mood or something at different times) the Jazz I have in the neck position on my Stratocaster sound better then any of my many other pups.
To the point at last: what is the difference in the sound of the antiquity? Maybe I should try the Jazz.antiquity.

 

[Mincer]

Re: SD Pickup Booster straight forward queaston

Re: SD Pickup Booster straight forward queaston

Is it really subjective? Aren't Resonant Peak, Q factor and Capacitance quantitative measurements that indicate the tonal range or profile of a pickup?

Yeah, those factors are not subjective, but the word 'broad' certainly is.

 

[jeremy]

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Re: SD Pickup Booster straight forward queaston

ive never tried the antiquity jazz so cant comment on how its different than the normal jazz

 

[maug2122]

Hi,
I have a 2001 or so SD Pick up Booster when they first came out. Love it. Do the new ones sound "better" or different besides the more attractive pedal cosmetics?
My old is red, is true bypassed, and seems very transparent.
Open to other "Klon" type transparent pedals w/out the 1,000 dollar on up price tag. Still love myself old pickup booster, just asking,
Thanks,
Steve "Smokestack" Buffington.

I have two older SFX- SD Pickup Boosters , one with red sides / top and the other black sides with a red top and the first thing my guitar plugs into.

On singles coils on mode #1 . You trim off some treble ( good for treble heavy s coils ) frequencies, adds great upper mids and adds more bass.
Mode #0. It only gives you a 6db boost,
Mode #2. Takes slightly more treble , increases both lower and upper mids and makes a single coil sound like an over wound P90 pickup.

If you got a treble heavy humbucker that need more bass and upper mids, use Mode #1
Like single coils, Mode #0 will leave your pickups as is. Mode #2. will take out even more treble and probably be too muddy, but it can make a mid wound pickup sound vicious depending on you tonal taste .

I have another one on at the end of my pedal board, to drive my signal harder and drive my cable going to my rack and amp, set on Mode 0 .

 

[Mikelamury]

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antiquity's come up two out of four. I currently think (for some reason different pups seem to sound better based on mood or something at different times) the Jazz I have in the neck position on my Stratocaster sound better then any of my many other pups.
To the point at last: what is the difference in the sound of the antiquity? Maybe I should try the Jazz.antiquity.

The Antiquity jazz neck pickup just has slightly sweeter treble than the original to my ears at least.

 

[misterwhizzy]

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other cool Klones would be the EHX Soul Food, especially the JHS modded one, or the Archer is really cool from what I hear. the Way Huge Saucy box is also really good!

I thought the Way Huge klone was the Conspiracy Theory?

Also, Mincer, while you're here, maybe you could hook up the OP and change the thread title's misspelling of question?

 

[Mincer]

I thought the Way Huge klone was the Conspiracy Theory?

Also, Mincer, while you're here, maybe you could hook up the OP and change the thread title's misspelling of question?

Haha, done!

 

[maug2122]

There is something in pickups that any pedal can't do.
A pickup detects the string condition ( old or new set), it sences if the string is stainless steel, nickle or plain steel and detects the resonance of the whole guitar, bridge, nut and wood material for the neck and body.

The Pickup Booster changes the resonance and senses only what the pickup gives it .
My 11.28k ohms Bill Lawrence or SD Screamin Demon pickups gets meaner with the PB, in gain and trimming of the higher frequencies ....but the Pickup Booster is no substitute for a pickup upgrade.