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seymour duncan pickup booster
« on: June 07, 2009, 06:17:15 PM »
has anyone tried one of those? it looks interesting and a video i saw on guitar premiere made me feel really curious...

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Re: seymour duncan pickup booster
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2009, 11:57:37 PM »
I had 1 for a while, what do you wanna know about it? :)
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Re: seymour duncan pickup booster
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2009, 08:29:07 AM »
I had 1 for a while, what do you wanna know about it? :)

well, if it's worth the buy... is it a good booster?
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Re: seymour duncan pickup booster
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2009, 05:15:06 PM »
I had 1 for a while, what do you wanna know about it? :)

well, if it's worth the buy... is it a good booster?

It all depends what you wanna use it for really.

At different times I used it both to push a breaking up amp into further drive, and at the end of a chain of effects to boost the overall volume for solos etc. It worked well in both of these uses.

The main reason I sold it on was because I had other Fulltone and ZVex boost pedals I was using more than the Duncan 1, otherwise I probably would've kept it.

Also, they sell the pedal as having a 3 way resonance switch on it where it (apparently) changes the sound of a single coil pickup into either a vintage humbucker or a high output humbucker. This is BS (to my ears atleast) and isn't a valid reason to own the pedal, but for a booster, you could do alot worse for the money.
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Re: seymour duncan pickup booster
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2009, 07:41:55 PM »
i was quite sure that the resonance trick wouldn't work, but i've got just humbuckers, so i couldn't care less! :)
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Re: seymour duncan pickup booster
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2009, 09:26:03 AM »
i was quite sure that the resonance trick wouldn't work, but i've got just humbuckers, so i couldn't care less! :)

Should be ok then :)

If you can get it relatively cheap, you could do alot worse for a boost pedal :)
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Re: seymour duncan pickup booster
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2009, 04:00:16 PM »
It's not a bad boost, and is actually quite a good value for the money. Don't confuse it with a boutique boost, however.

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Re: seymour duncan pickup booster
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2009, 05:11:05 PM »
i'm quite fast to take decisions (:)) so i ordered it and i'll let you know my impression...
thanks!
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