I never tried the Fender Mid-boost kit yet, but I've seen several videos of Eric Clapton in action during a fierce guitar solo.

This baby is primarily designed to fatten up single-coil pickups, but also works perfectly with regular humbuckers as well.

My gripe is that the kit doesn't include a toggle switch to turn off the preamp. I find the active-passive toggle switch extremely useful, especially when a battery dies during a gig.

From my understanding this feature was available only on the first EC prototypes made back in the mid-1980s.

I added this to my MIM Squier w/ noiseless pups. The noiseless pickups were just dead sounding before, now they sound great! Very quiet, clean, the noiseless pickups almost sound like active EMG's now but without as much compression. Even without the mid boost turned up, it gives your signal a boost. The mid-boost really gives you a LOT OF BOOST and allows you to really crank up a lead.... I mean, whatever amp you plug into.. it's enough boost to go from clean to overdrive. I am guessing that's it's purpose. This is very good clean sound quality (much better than I expected). The Bartolini preamp in my bass is much noisier than this.... This really is one of the best upgrades you can do. I didn't install it, I had it done by a tech.

Dropped this kit into my son's strat. Installation is no big deal if you: have some patience, have decent soldering skills, and can follow directions. After installing, I cranked up the TBX tone control and WOW!...the strat sounded just like EC's strat when I played the Layla opening riffs. Nothing special about the pickups in the strat either, just your basic garden variety over wound pickups. I have a cheaper mid boost kit in my own strat that sounds really brittle compared to the Fender kit and I plan on buying a second Fender mid boost kit to replace the cheap mid boost kit.

The money spent on the Fender mid boost kit is money well spent. Sure, you can buy a cheaper kit on the net for about 30 bucks like I did but it won't hold a candle to the Fender kit. You get what you pay for.....go with the Fender mid boost kit.

Pop this baby in your strat and step back!

First, this is my setup: MIM fat strat, Tex-Mex pups, bone nut, Callaham block and 11's played through a '95 Fender Blues Deluxe 40 watt tube amp with an Eminence Swamp Thang speaker upgrade. The tone I like is definitely Texas Blues chiming strat with loads of sustain.

Each of the above upgrades made a huge difference but there was still something lacking. After reading numerous reviews of the Fender Mid-boost Kit, I decided to give it a go.

Nothing could have prepared me for the result! While it not only adds 25db of boost, it also enhances that bell/chime tone you play a strat for. Turning up the kit's boost darned near eliminates the need for a distortion pedal to get that great blues breakup even at low volumes. The TBX pot may be the best part of the upgrade as it changes the brightness of the tone without eliminating the upper frequencies.

One caveat: I needed to add a volume pedal to my chain because adding 25db of preamp boost to a 40 watt tube amp can loosen your fillings at anything above the 3 setting.

I have two of these sets. One came in my Eric Clapton strat and one I had put into my 90's Fender Strat Plus. It made my old strat sound amazing. I hate the sound of single coils so naturally I had to have one put into my Strat Plus. Once I did, it gave my "Old Yeller" strat a boosted tone. Now it is my backup for my EC strat. This kit is a cheaper addition to any strat in case you don't have the cash for the EC strat. Or else if you do, I highly recommend getting an EC strat.