Andreas Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 I have a medium quality stratocaster copy that sounds like crap. It has an overall ok clean sound but when distorted it is too muddy. Its confiquration is single / single/ humbucker. The humbucker is in the bridge and I just measured the resistance across it and it rates at 8.4 Kilo ohms. Do you think that a booster circuit will enchance the whole instument? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hy_dro66 Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Not as much as some good pickups would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Yeah, a pickup upgrade will get you a lot further than a booster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted June 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Hmm I see, Unfortunatelly no money right now. Ill see if I can convince my younger brother to start playing guitar and buy that one a humbucker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ansil Posted June 8, 2004 Report Share Posted June 8, 2004 you can get a lot of mileage out of an lpb1 booster, with the right caps you can make a nice boost/tone control.. similar to say the ec booster. use a darlington and get gobs of gain.. add some schotky diodes. and get some nice crunchy breakup. do it rectifer style and get a little upper ocatve pronounced before it hits the amp. take the time to build say a simple two transistor.. or single surface mount opamp and make a nice unity booster, and drive a small trimpot mounted eq.. i like to preset the bass and treble and use my tone pot as a midrange control. and then the second half of the opamp to make it around unity gain or maybe a little hotter if you like it.. you would be suprised what a simple little threband eq does for your sound..or build a gyrator circuit to really add some presence to the sound. the skys the limit. but again. a good set of pickups would work better probally. i got a barcus berry you could have for shipping. of course it depends on where you are at. too on howmuch shipping is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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