EQ pedal you like - Page 2

famousbirds · #21 02-22-2013, 05:25 PM

I use a Boss PQ-4 for guitar - great pedal but good luck finding one - but for bass these days I do 90% of my EQ'ing with the VLE and VPF filters on my Markbass head. Perfectly voiced and super flexible with a minimum of knobs.

If I played a different head, I would seriously look at adding a Markbass Super Booster to my pedalboard.

Bur · #22 02-24-2013, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by jymyben

do you all run these pedals thru the effects loop or in the pedal chain?

That depends on the effect loop of the amp - if it is designed to operate with line-level signal, most of stompboxes will be kinda useless for it.

Bur · #23 02-24-2013, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by edpal

DUDE - you used the "e" word and food in one thread. Seriously, a tube eq? I work on vintage electronic watches as my "day gig", I am gonna have to check that out just on retro principles alone! We need a LMAO icon!

Could you clarify, what does "e" word & LMAO mean? My omissions in foreign language.

tekdiver500ft · #24 02-24-2013, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Bur

Could you clarify, what does "e" word & LMAO mean? My omissions of foreign language.

e word = EQ
LMFAO = a popular band over here, there name means "Laughing My Freaking A$$ Off"

edpal · #25 02-24-2013, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Bur

My EHX Tube EQ keeps me amazed for 6 years. My always on one, never going to sell it. It does not just boost & cut, it enriches & saturate the signal, gives my tone a strong erection.

No, "e" in this case was "erection". Which in English is generally a reference to a stiffening of the male sex organ or penis. You can erect a building but when you said it gave your tone a strong erection the visual was slightly different, and it wasn't eating food.

I hope my explanation hasn't pushed over the boundry of this forum's rules...I tried to keep it clinical.

tekdiver500ft · #26 02-24-2013, 08:23 AM

I must've completely glossed over that, I never even saw it, or I would have realized that was the intended "e" word. Oh, well, I guess I can't catch everything.

Bur · #27 02-24-2013, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by edpal

No, "e" in this case was "erection". Which in English is generally a reference to a stiffening of the male sex organ or penis. You can erect a building but when you said it gave your tone a strong erection the visual was slightly different, and it wasn't eating food.

I hope my explanation hasn't pushed over the boundry of this forum's rules...I tried to keep it clinical.

I'm sorry for being rude, erection just doesn't spoil my appetite.

Bur · #28 02-24-2013, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by tekdiver500ft

e word = EQ
LMFAO = a popular band over here, there name means "Laughing My Freaking A$$ Off"

Thanks for explanation, dig that band too

Just didn't know about the abbreviation.

Bur · #29 02-24-2013, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by edpal

DUDE - you used the "e" word and food in one thread. Seriously, a tube eq? I work on vintage electronic watches as my "day gig", I am gonna have to check that out just on retro principles alone! We need a LMAO icon!

I hope you remembered LMAO not because I wrote something stupid, 'cause I tried to be as serious as I could

kurosawa · #30 02-24-2013, 10:29 AM

For $120, the MXR M108 is a decent 10-band stomp box EQ for bass (the low band centers on 31 Hz or low B). It's rugged. I dislike wall warts, but oh, well. It's 18v. It won't take batteries. I like the LEDs on each slider. It's easier for me to see what's going on with a graphic.

The outermost sliders are pre and post levels, and their LEDs blink as you approach clipping. You adjust these just as you would on an amp, normally to keep the signal to noise ratio as high as possible without distorting. The EQ bands are an octave apart.

I use the MXR to adjust for the room, and the bass's tone knob, a Hartke VXL (sometimes), and the amp EQ for flavoring. This way I don't have to mess with anything but the MXR to adjust for the room.

Here's the GP review.

Here's the manual.

millahh · #31 02-24-2013, 10:38 AM

I had good luck with the GEB-7, running it at the front of my chain to boost upper mids and cut lower mids to get my P-bass into Geddy Lee Ric territory. Then I switched to the MXR six-band EQ, as I wanted a smaller footprint, and had a different use in mind. I run that after my Agro on my dirt channel, with the lows completely cut, to simulate running the dirt through a guitar amp. Works nicely in that application, though that is using it as more of an effect than for tone shaping. Couldn't quite get the Ric effect the couple of times I tried...different voicings.

edpal · #32 02-24-2013, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by millahh

Couldn't quite get the Ric effect the couple of times I tried...different voicings.

Hard to make the stereo Ric-Tone with a mono bass.

"Bur" - I suspected you were serious, just wasn't sure if you appreciated the connotation of strong erection in english. The food you were describing sounded great.

**eddododo** · #33 02-24-2013, 07:56 PM

subscribing to this thread!!

My onboard is a little frustrating to use, my amp eq doesn't help house sound (I believe that I should control my eq and the sound guy can shape it as needed. I get along with my soundguys

). My BEF Pro is used more for its eq than anything else on it, honestly :s

I like the 'buzz' around the empress, I just don't get why they did switchable Q... I get that its probably plenty but parametric is parametric... Still seems to get plenty of love though haha.

Jim C · #34 02-24-2013, 08:07 PM

Hard to find but the old Trace Elliot EQ pedal is very quiet, works very well, and has 2 pre-shape selections.

meatwad · #35 02-24-2013, 08:27 PM

I can deal with any EQ pedal, as long as it has 800Hz. The Boss EQ-20 is a good choice, although slight overkill for me personally. I also have to agree with the Zoom B3 having some cool EQ stuff inside, and the old Trace Elliot series has always fascinated me.