SteveF
Member
Hi;
Maybe this has been covered before...but I've read some people wishing they could get an Albert Lee with humbucking pickups. I have an AL s-s-s, and sometimes find myself wanting to carve out the bridge pickup rout and put in a humbucker or a p90 - and may still at some point, I've never 'loved' the sound of a single coil in the bridge, but I do LOVE them in all the other positions and the combinations.
A quick low cost solution? I picked up a used Seymour Duncan "pickup booster"
the other day...REALLY cheap. If you put it first in your signal chain, it has two different midrange "bump" choices, as it were...one is supposedly voiced like a PAF, realistically it's more of a midrange boost and treble roll-off. Anyway, I'm running the "volume boost" portion of the pedal as low as possible, so it's just a change in the EQ color of the guitar - and I have other bosters in the chain that sound better in that regard. The results are pretty cool, the bridge pickup has much more midrange snarl when the effect is kicked in. In conjunction with the other pedals in my chain (Xotic RC, AC, and BB) and the amps 2 channels, I've got a lot more tonal options. It's kind of like having 2 guitars...s-s-s without the pickup booster, and h-h-h with it (although it gets a little muddy and wierd on the in between positions and the neck pickup...but it's "different" you know?)
Anyway, just though I'd pass on my experience. That pedal has been much maligned in the face of other (admittedly nicer, more boutique) clean boost pedals, but for a midrange booster for single coils, it's pretty cool. True bypass, and you can find them used for next to nothing. I think maybe a lot of people overlooked that pedal's true potential maybe.
as they say, Your Mileage May Vary.
Have fun!
Maybe this has been covered before...but I've read some people wishing they could get an Albert Lee with humbucking pickups. I have an AL s-s-s, and sometimes find myself wanting to carve out the bridge pickup rout and put in a humbucker or a p90 - and may still at some point, I've never 'loved' the sound of a single coil in the bridge, but I do LOVE them in all the other positions and the combinations.
A quick low cost solution? I picked up a used Seymour Duncan "pickup booster"
the other day...REALLY cheap. If you put it first in your signal chain, it has two different midrange "bump" choices, as it were...one is supposedly voiced like a PAF, realistically it's more of a midrange boost and treble roll-off. Anyway, I'm running the "volume boost" portion of the pedal as low as possible, so it's just a change in the EQ color of the guitar - and I have other bosters in the chain that sound better in that regard. The results are pretty cool, the bridge pickup has much more midrange snarl when the effect is kicked in. In conjunction with the other pedals in my chain (Xotic RC, AC, and BB) and the amps 2 channels, I've got a lot more tonal options. It's kind of like having 2 guitars...s-s-s without the pickup booster, and h-h-h with it (although it gets a little muddy and wierd on the in between positions and the neck pickup...but it's "different" you know?)
Anyway, just though I'd pass on my experience. That pedal has been much maligned in the face of other (admittedly nicer, more boutique) clean boost pedals, but for a midrange booster for single coils, it's pretty cool. True bypass, and you can find them used for next to nothing. I think maybe a lot of people overlooked that pedal's true potential maybe.
as they say, Your Mileage May Vary.
Have fun!
