Description
The Pickup Booster earns its spot at the start of your signal chain by doing one thing exceptionally well: adding clean, muscular gain without smearing your guitar’s natural voice. Built around a fully discrete, Class A circuit, it stays quiet and transparent whether you’re nudging a solo forward or pushing an amp into breakup. This updated version lets the Gain knob drop all the way to unity (0dB), and a discrete push-pull output stage keeps the tone crisp even with long cable runs — so a “clean” setting truly stays clean.
What sets this booster apart from a standard clean boost is the Resonance Switch, which talks directly to your pickups. Running single-coils? Flip it to position “1” for a vintage humbucker growl suited to blues and classic rock, or flip to “2” for a high-output humbucker snarl built for searing leads and driving tube amps into saturation. It’s a simple way to get humbucker-style thickness and sustain from single-coil pickups, or to fatten an already-humbucker-equipped guitar even further.
Like Seymour Duncan’s Dirty Deed, Vapor Trail, and 805 Overdrive, the Pickup Booster is hand-assembled in Santa Barbara, California, and runs true-bypass so it stays out of the way when it’s off.
- Circuitry: Fully discrete, Class A
- Gain range: 0 to 25 dB
- Bypass: True bypass
- Resonance Switch: single-coil to vintage humbucker (1) or high-output humbucker (2) voicing
- Frequency response: -3dB at 30Hz and 38kHz
- Distortion: <0.02% at 200mV RMS output
- Noise: -120 dBV (referred to input, gain at 25dB)
- Input impedance: 250K Ohms (on) / Output impedance: 150 Ohms
- Power: 9V battery or 9-18V regulated DC adapter, center negative
- Current draw: 4.5mA @ 9V (LED on), 3mA @ 9V (LED off); 11mA/8mA @ 18V
- Dimensions: 2.61″ x 4.90″ x 1.45″ — Weight: 0.8 lb without battery
This unit is open box and graded mint condition.
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