Seymour Duncan: Pickup Booster

Seymour Duncan, a primary guitar pickups manufacturer, makes great pedals as well. My first Duncan pedal is this red wonder here which is a pickup booster but it is specifically meant for single coil units more than any other pickup types. Humbuckers would only benefit from one of its three modes on offer as these pickups are inherently fat in certain frequencies so a voicing make-over by this pedal would yield a poor difference.

As mentioned above, I employ this pedal when playing my Strats. Single coil pickups are great for solos but they aren't high output by default to generate a certain saturation level in overdrive mode. They are also too protrusive in the upper frequencies so for those of us who peddle bass notes in certain songs, the tone generated would be too shrill.

Please do not go away after reading this entry thinking the Duncan PU Booster converts the average single coil into a humbucking thumper- no. It merely boosts selected frequencies to fatten up the tone for it to rival the latter pickup type. Be assured that the twang in your single coils are kept in tact after all that boosting.