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11-10-2007, 08:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Des Moines, IA, USA | | | Anybody tried the EHX Knockout yet?
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I was just reading up on it, and it seems like an interesting piece of equipment. I'm just having a hard time figuring out exactly what it does. Is it a compressor? An optimizer? A glorified EQ? |
11-10-2007, 12:22 PM
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11-10-2007, 04:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Lubbock, TX | | "Attack Equalizer"... sounds like a compressor?
EHX's website says it sounds great on bass 
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11-10-2007, 06:27 PM
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11-10-2007, 07:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: tasmania, australia | | it sounds great on guitar, but i have no idea what it dose  |
11-10-2007, 08:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Oakland, California, USA | | | It's a specialized EQ of sorts. It uses a low and high filter to shape your tone.
I haven't seen one in any of my local shops yet, so I haven't jumped on one to try. I'm honestly not too interested in this one - maybe if I had a passive bass, I might be.
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02-29-2008, 06:06 PM
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02-29-2008, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Toasted | Nice, really fills up the bottom on bass. Sounds kind of thin on guitar though. |
02-29-2008, 06:14 PM
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02-29-2008, 08:22 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Louisiana for now. | | | I desperately try to avoid most pedals for "tone shaping." The Submarine, Dark Boost, etc.
I figure, if your sound isn't what you want... get a new bass or a new amp.
However, this is really a candidate to break that train of thought. That really sounds great. |
03-01-2008, 04:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Fargo,North Dakota | | | Anyone have on to review? I am stuck between this and the Nano BassBalls and what I should get myself for my birthday to add to my sound!
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03-01-2008, 04:22 PM
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03-01-2008, 04:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London, England | | | I for one don't like the sound of the pedal on that demo video, it makes everything sound thinner and weaker. Nice graphics though! |
03-01-2008, 04:29 PM
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03-01-2008, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by dannybuoy I for one don't like the sound of the pedal on that demo video, it makes everything sound thinner and weaker. Nice graphics though! | They dialed back the Dry signal below 12:00 - don't forget that.
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Originally Posted by Nappa The bass was played on a guitar amp in that demo. | That, too.
Try THIS video instead - one of Michael Leonhart's weird EHX demo videos that I'd linked to before.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COgcXvl9WJw
There's a demo on bass at the end of it.
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03-02-2008, 01:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Philadelphia | | | The beginning of that video says the cutoff point for the HPF is 65kHz. Doesn't that seem ridiculously high? 45,000 Hz above the absolute upper range of human hearing! That must be wrong, right? |
03-02-2008, 01:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Mingus Addict The beginning of that video says the cutoff point for the HPF is 65kHz. Doesn't that seem ridiculously high? 45,000 Hz above the absolute upper range of human hearing! That must be wrong, right? | It depends on the shape of a filter's slope. As you can see on this image, high pass filter can cut some freuqencies that are before the cutoff point: 
Also the point you're controling with a knob on an eq pedal isn't necessarily the actual cutoff frequency point of a given filter. |
03-02-2008, 01:24 AM
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Originally Posted by MysticBoo They dialed back the Dry signal below 12:00 - don't forget that.
The result is a bit similar to mid-scooping.
That, too.
Try THIS video instead - one of Michael Leonhart's weird EHX demo videos that I'd linked to before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COgcXvl9WJw
There's a demo on bass at the end of it. | thats a sweet video!
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03-02-2008, 01:39 AM
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Originally Posted by 40Hz_of_Love It depends on the shape of a filter's slope. As you can see on this image, high pass filter can cut some freuqencies that are before the cutoff point:
Also the point you're controling with a knob on an eq pedal isn't necessarily the actual cutoff frequency point of a given filter. | I'm aware of how a HPF works, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a cutoff freq of 30 or 40kHz, but 65kHz still seems high to me.
Edit: Just checked out the manual on the EHX website. The correct cutoff freq. is 6.5kHz, not 65khz. That makes more sense.
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03-02-2008, 01:40 AM
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