Will the Duncan pickup booster pedal help me?

[cvogue]

I just got a Peavey Classic 50 head (no effects loop) and need a lead boost for my Les Paul. When playing my Wolfgang (very hot pickups) I just crank the guitar volume for leads, works great! But the Les Paul has much lower output pickups and if I don't have them on 10 the tone fades quickly... also there's not that much volume range with the Les Paul anyway.

Running an overdrive into the front of the amp doesn't help for a volume boost at all really. But since the Wolfgang's hot pickups worked well for that I'm wondering if Seymour's pickup booster pedal would help for a lead boost for the Les Paul into a saturated tube amp.

Whatchya think?

Thanks for any insight.

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

Re: Will the Duncan pickup booster pedal help me?

I just got a Peavey Classic 50 head (no effects loop) and need a lead boost for my Les Paul. When playing my Wolfgang (very hot pickups) I just crank the guitar volume for leads, works great! But the Les Paul has much lower output pickups and if I don't have them on 10 the tone fades quickly... also there's not that much volume range with the Les Paul anyway.

Running an overdrive into the front of the amp doesn't help for a volume boost at all really. But since the Wolfgang's hot pickups worked well for that I'm wondering if Seymour's pickup booster pedal would help for a lead boost for the Les Paul into a saturated tube amp.

Whatchya think?

Thanks for any insight.

The SD pickup booster might help since it's got an adjustable level on there to help goose your amp...It has 3 settings and the pedal is pretty transparent...The 3 switch settings change the overall timbre of your guitar...I use one and I Love it!

 

[Amateur]

Re: Will the Duncan pickup booster pedal help me?

I also have the Duncan pickup booster and I use it mainly for my single coil guitars. It works great. I would believe it will also boost the humbucker outputs. However, it is not a distortion pedal. If that is what you want to use it for, you may not get the result you want, because it gives you a relatively clean sound.

 

[kjrocks]

Re: Will the Duncan pickup booster pedal help me?

I think it could do the job easily. Just set the db knob to where you want it and its just like cranking the volume.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Will the Duncan pickup booster pedal help me?

I think it would help, but what I think the Duncan Pickup Booster excels at is making a single coil Strat or Tele pickup sound more like a kick butt humbucker. However, there's no reason that it wouldn't also make a vintage style humbucker kick butt like a really overwound humbucker.

 

[Evan Skopp]

Re: Will the Duncan pickup booster pedal help me?

The SFX-01 will work just fine with a humbucker. However, the Resonance Switch is designed to work with single coil pickups -- to make them sound more like humbuckers. Since you already have humbuckers, leave that switch in the "0" position (true bypass) and just use it for clean, flat EQ, boost, up to 25dB.

 

[More-Gear-Than-Skill]

Re: Will the Duncan pickup booster pedal help me?

If you do use an overdrive, without much "drive", but with a healthy dose of gain/volume, surely you could get that pure-boost...

 

[cvogue]

Re: Will the Duncan pickup booster pedal help me?

If you do use an overdrive, without much "drive", but with a healthy dose of gain/volume, surely you could get that pure-boost...

Well I tried that with my Boss SD-1 but to very little avail... The SD-1 was running off of a power supply not a battery so it had plenty of juice.