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  • Seymour Duncan GEQ-1 Firestorm Pickup Boost

    Does anyone have any experience with this pickup boost from SD. I wonder how it copares to the EMG Afterburner and PA2. It's weird that nobody talks about it like the boosts from EMG.

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    • #3
      I don't think many people use it as it's a "Duncan Designed" product which I could be wrong about but I think that line may be OEM only.
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      • #4
        I have a SD Pickup Booster Circuit (a Guitarelectronics.com exclusive) which works great. Instead of on/off switch it features a 25k pot for gain control and a DPDT switch for bypassing. I used a push-pull pot instead so I didn't have to drill my LP. I'm using it as a piezo preamp (with a suitable capacitor) but it boosts magnetic pickups just as well. Quite an experience running Duncan Custom with a 25 db additional gain..

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        • #5
          Originally posted by 1b4n3z View Post
          I have a SD Pickup Booster Circuit (a Guitarelectronics.com exclusive) which works great. Instead of on/off switch it features a 25k pot for gain control and a DPDT switch for bypassing. I used a push-pull pot instead so I didn't have to drill my LP. I'm using it as a piezo preamp (with a suitable capacitor) but it boosts magnetic pickups just as well. Quite an experience running Duncan Custom with a 25 db additional gain..
          Is it just a straight boost or is there an eq as well?

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          • #6
            It's just a gain boost. The pedal has an EQ switch but this is a stripped-down version of the circuit.

            EDIT: I believe the word is 'clean boost'.

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            • #7
              Usually I don't use add-in circuits unless they come in the guitar when I get it. I had an Afterburner in the Halford when it still had the HZs in it. It worked great for those pickups, which EMG's site says are PAF-voiced. Not sure it'd be a good match for the Invader in there now.

              And I never used it on 10. It sounded best when it was just up enough to know it was on - maybe 3 or 4. Anything above that was pointless and noisy.
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