Description
Pickup Simulator
The Saturnworks pickup simulator essentially “un-buffers” your signal so that you can more easily integrate devices, such as many fuzz pedals, that don’t work well with a buffered signal.
Fuzz pedals sound great, but integrating them into a pedalboard can be challenging if they’re the type of fuzz that don’t work well with a buffered signal. You can’t put them after any Boss pedal or buffered splitter, for example, as putting them after a buffer can make them sound thin. This limits your options and often requires you to put them first in your signal path, which may not be ideal for your setup.
Enter, the Saturnworks pickup simulator!
Placing the pickup simulator before the fuzz pedal fools the device into ‘thinking’ that you’re plugging your guitar straight into it, even though you are running it through other devices and buffers. This allows you to put your fuzz pedals wherever you’d like in your signal chain, rather than only up front. For example, using the pickup simulator, you can put fuzz pedals in your amp’s effects loop or in parallel setups, without negatively affecting their sound.
The pickup simulator is passive and doesn’t require power. It features an internal switch that allows you to switch between simulating a single coil or a humbucker-style pickup. The internal switch also has a bypass setting. Stay tuned as we add more variations going forward.
Saturnworks pickup simulators include boutique-grade parts and features including:
- Heavy duty Neutrik/Rean 1/4″ jacks.
- A compact 1590A sized (3.6” x 1.5″ x 1.2″) cast aluminum enclosure.
- Handcrafted and bench-tested in Washington, USA with US and imported components.
- A 1-year limited warranty against parts and manufacturing defects.
Upgrades and Customizations
Because we know you want your pedal to reflect you, Saturnworks offers a variety of premium upgrades. Customizations and upgrades include powder-coated enclosures, upgraded jacks, upgraded switches (including our incredible soft click latching switches), and custom graphics. Check out our graphics and customizations page for more information.
