Clapton midboost in a pedal?

YellowLedBetterMan

I'm new around these parts, so bear with.

Having recently took up (or re-took up) guitar from a lengthy hiatus I have found myself with a very nice quality bitsa Strat. The pickups are a bit meh bit anyhow. What I wanted to do was put the Fender Midboost kit into it for the Clapton drive tones we all love.

However, I was looking if anything similar exists for a pedal, so I could switch it off when I don't want it and also wouldn't have to dismantle the guitar to change any batteries.

Anyone know of anything similar for around the same price as the Fender kit £80 or cheaper?

kennedydream1980

Buy an EQ pedal and boost the mid frequencies.

KKJale

You could pop this in a box  

FelineGuitars

The Clapton circuit is a useless POS in my opinion.
It completely ruins the natural sound of the Clapton Strat, even when it’s turned right down.
It should have always been properly bypassable, so you can have the proper sound of the Strat should you wish it.
now you may like the sound of the unit when engaged, to my ears it lacks finesse, however having it in a pedal with true bypass would be an improvement as you can still get the natural sounds from your strat. 
Anyone who owns a Clapton strat should try removing the circuit (you will need new value pots) and hear how nice their guitar is without it, as I really like the underlying guitar, and sticking the circuit in a pedal  will mean you can use the intended effect  only when required

Fishboy7

I would upgrade your pickups first if your not happy with 'em. 

brooom

FelineGuitars said:

The Clapton circuit is a useless POS in my opinion.
It completely ruins the natural sound of the Clapton Strat, even when it’s turned right down.
It should have always been properly bypassable, so you can have the proper sound of the Strat should you wish it.
now you may like the sound of the unit when engaged, to my ears it lacks finesse, however having it in a pedal with true bypass would be an improvement as you can still get the natural sounds from your strat. 
Anyone who owns a Clapton strat should try removing the circuit (you will need new value pots) and hear how nice their guitar is without it, as I really like the underlying guitar, and sticking the circuit in a pedal  will mean you can use the intended effect  only when required

Completely agree. His sound live with derek and the dominoes when he was playing brownie and marshalls was really good and quite rock n roll. I don't understand why he insists on the mid boosts, it sounds very artificial.

mburekenge

brooom said:

FelineGuitars said:

The Clapton circuit is a useless POS in my opinion.
It completely ruins the natural sound of the Clapton Strat, even when it’s turned right down.
It should have always been properly bypassable, so you can have the proper sound of the Strat should you wish it.
now you may like the sound of the unit when engaged, to my ears it lacks finesse, however having it in a pedal with true bypass would be an improvement as you can still get the natural sounds from your strat. 
Anyone who owns a Clapton strat should try removing the circuit (you will need new value pots) and hear how nice their guitar is without it, as I really like the underlying guitar, and sticking the circuit in a pedal  will mean you can use the intended effect  only when required

Completely agree. His sound live with derek and the dominoes when he was playing brownie and marshalls was really good and quite rock n roll. I don't understand why he insists on the mid boosts, it sounds very artificial.

That dominoes live album has some of the fattest and juiciest strat tone ever recorded. The playing is off the charts too

YellowLedBetterMan

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is up there with my favourite albums. Great tunes and even better tones. Not many other 20 year olds would say the same methinks . 

I like the look of the TC Spark for this. Can use it to boost certain signals and put an amp into a clean overdriven sound.

Cirrus

FelineGuitars said:

The Clapton circuit is a useless POS in my opinion.

Also agree. I had a demonstration model that actually did come in a little pedal box (though it didn't have a footswitch) and thought it sounded pretty bad. I guess it would come down to how whatever amp you were using liked to be hit, though.

Cookiemonster

Here you go. You can make a pedal

http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/fender-eric-clapton-25db-mid-boost.html?m=1

Samgb

YellowLedBetterMan said:

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is up there with my favourite albums. Great tunes and even better tones. Not many other 20 year olds would say the same methinks . 

I like the look of the TC Spark for this. Can use it to boost certain signals and put an amp into a clean overdriven sound.

The full size one can certainly overdrive an amp. One of the best OD sounds i can remember in the flesh was a dude i played with running the full size Spark with an SG through a Marshall (smallish combo - forget which).
Im not sure if it strictly speaking does the mid-boost you are looking for though. I have the mini and that definitely does not do mids. It does sparkly 'more' but not mids. 

YellowLedBetterMan

Samgb said:

The full size one can certainly overdrive an amp. One of the best OD sounds i can remember in the flesh was a dude i played with running the full size Spark with an SG through a Marshall (smallish combo - forget which).
Im not sure if it strictly speaking does the mid-boost you are looking for though. I have the mini and that definitely does not do mids. It does sparkly 'more' but not mids. 

I believe the middle switch on the big pedal has a setting for "mid" or "mid boost". Either way, I'm hoping it can do somthing good for me.

Samgb

YellowLedBetterMan said:

Samgb said:

The full size one can certainly overdrive an amp. One of the best OD sounds i can remember in the flesh was a dude i played with running the full size Spark with an SG through a Marshall (smallish combo - forget which).
Im not sure if it strictly speaking does the mid-boost you are looking for though. I have the mini and that definitely does not do mids. It does sparkly 'more' but not mids. 

I believe the middle switch on the big pedal has a setting for "mid" or "mid boost". Either way, I'm hoping it can do somthing good for me.

Ah - well i didnt look too closely at his settings i just kind of put the pedal on my 'would like to try' list because it was roaring. 

mark123

seymour duncan pick up booster ?can go from 0db to 25db boost got 5 star off music radar review, new they are about £100 

Cookiemonster

if you look on reverb there is one for sale in a pedal format