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I've been using pedals with my guitars for awhile and specifically with a Peche. Primarily, I've got a compressor, drive, delay, and vibrato pedal and all are mostly used subtly. Because I'm apt to switch back and forth between a lap steel and a GJ style guitar, I use a Sarno Freeloader in front or a Steel Guitar Blackbox.
The compressor seems to have solved that issue for me, but I'll be honest. I haven't thought about that string volume thing for a good long time, way before I brought pedals in. I've had too much to worry about with playing in general.
For folks thinking of using pedals, do it. Fealty to tradition for the sake of tradition is kind of a waste. Clearly, you play the gig, whatever that may be. If you like the sound you get and it inspires you, then follow that muse. There is no greater time waster than listening to a bunch of folks that tell you how "it" is. I went through it in GJ and recently went through it in the lap steel world, during my learning process...specifically folks telling me what you can and cannot do. If we all listened to folks telling us to not do things (because it has always been like that), we'd never progress.
I noticed the same problem when I used Galli Silk and Steels (which are otherwise fantastic) with my Kleio pickup.
Switched back to Argentines, problem solved.
So...as I'm one of those weirdos that likes the sound of old strings on selmacs this experiment took a while.
As suspected, it's not Savarez vs. Galli or else but the type of string, so steel vs. f.e. silk.
My Kleio 47 is very balanced across all strings with Argentines, but unbalanced with Galli silk and steel, just as reported by @gitane007. Now I have tried the Galli GSB10 (non silk - I guess it's their counterpart to Argentines) and lo and behold, everything is nicely balanced again!
What you are referring to is the unbalanced nature of the original Stimer design with the prominent B string. This can have a certain appeal, absolutely! But the main problen with silk and steel strings in combination with a Stimer style pickup is not that some strings are more dominant, but that the bass strings are very unresponsive to the magnet and you have to dig in way too hard on those to get a decent sound.