Pickup simulator

[night-B]

Hi guys!
I've got something to ask to the stompbox gurus around here.
I found some effects to be weak using single coils pickups and some other sound less "vintage" using humbuckers so here is what I'd like to do:
I'd like to breadboard 2 circuits, one to heat single coils tones and the other to tame the humbuckers a little bit, using a 3 band EQ and a transformer to get the pickup simulation.
Do you think there's a way to make this alive? I don't want to buy lots of transformers and send them to the garbage, and I'm new to using these in stompboxes circuits.
Any information is welcome. Thanks!

Julien