thebigcheese
"Hi, I'm in Delaware."
I finally.put the finishing touches on a custom guitar by adding some custom Antiquities made for me by SD so that I could coil split them. I really like the neck single coil sound for clean stuff, but not so much for heavy drive. The problem is, the single coil is a lot quieter than the humbucker and I would like to bring it up to match the humbucker. Sound familiar?
Here's where it gets tricky, though. Most of the time I use that single coil for my clean sounds, so it would make sense to just make my clean channel louder. But on some songs I have to use a humbucker for the cleans because I have to switch so many other things that it just isn't practical, so then my clean channel would be way louder than the drive channel. For example, in one of our more metal songs, the verse is a chorused clean sound (EQ pedal and chorus pedal on) to the chorus which is chorus off, EQ off, distortion on. On my amp, I actually run my board into the FX return of the amp so that the EQ pedal is my clean channel and the various drive channels of the amp go to a loop on a true bypass looper on the board. So for that song, that involves three buttons to stomp to switch between sections. You can see why I gave up and decided not to also switch pickups... Anyway, I also have a Luke 3, which has a preamp with a makeup gain circuit on it so that all my levels do match, but it is proprietary and they won't send me one. What I would really like is a system like that that works at the guitar level rather than having yet another pedal to stomp, but I haven't been able to find anything. Does anyone have any ideas?
Here's where it gets tricky, though. Most of the time I use that single coil for my clean sounds, so it would make sense to just make my clean channel louder. But on some songs I have to use a humbucker for the cleans because I have to switch so many other things that it just isn't practical, so then my clean channel would be way louder than the drive channel. For example, in one of our more metal songs, the verse is a chorused clean sound (EQ pedal and chorus pedal on) to the chorus which is chorus off, EQ off, distortion on. On my amp, I actually run my board into the FX return of the amp so that the EQ pedal is my clean channel and the various drive channels of the amp go to a loop on a true bypass looper on the board. So for that song, that involves three buttons to stomp to switch between sections. You can see why I gave up and decided not to also switch pickups... Anyway, I also have a Luke 3, which has a preamp with a makeup gain circuit on it so that all my levels do match, but it is proprietary and they won't send me one. What I would really like is a system like that that works at the guitar level rather than having yet another pedal to stomp, but I haven't been able to find anything. Does anyone have any ideas?