Booster circuit on each pickup

[Anthrax]

i've got a banged up strat that i want to modify, so thought it might be awesome to have a booster circuit on each pick up .

How would this sound ?  is it a stupid idea? i think i might produce some nice overdrive. 

basicly i'm asking am i wasting my time ?

[Mark Hammer]

Buffering your pickups is almost always a good idea.  After all, you can't easily fake the treble you never had in your cable by cranking the amp's tone controls, right?  Far better to preserve ALL the potential tone of your PUs and then carve away what you don't need at that moment.

Boost is another thing.

The trouble with boost at the guitar is that it doesn't always leave you with a signal level that plays nicely with your pedals.  For instance, a great many "classic" pedals are designed around the assumption that they will receive a signal of a certain level, and when the level exceeds that they misbehave.  Case in point: just about any FET-based phaser.

Yes , you CAN turn down to get around that problem, but the point is that you can't just leave your guitar knobs on 10, have built in boost and expect that all other parts of your signal chain will do what you want...UNLESS...your preferred signal chain is guitar straight to amp.

[alderbody]

...and what would happen in the "inbetween" positions?

Position 2 and 4 on the Strat switch puts the respective pickups in parallel.

How would that sound?...

[DDD]

It seems there's no need to have more than one booster inside your guitar. Just put ONE booster after pickup selector and tone control.
Also don't forget to add capacitor of about 300 pF in parallel with the booster input to imitate cable capacitance. Otherwise you'll get very "thin" and\or "glassy" sound that drastically differs from the initial guitar tone.