Thoughts on Boss- guitar EQ for piezo Buffer

[Mr.Bassist]

Hey there fellow bassist I just inherited a 7 band guitar EQ. pedal with the frequencies 100 200 800 1.6k 3.2k 6.4k and I was wondering if it would be a sufficient buffer with my piezo element .

[Francois Blais]

Most important data is the input impedance.
What's the model?

[B String]

Not the right tool for the application. You need a buffer pre,
not so much more eq.

[Mr.Bassist]

Originally Posted by Francois Blais

Most important data is the input impedance.
What's the model?

200 watts at minimum impedance
minimum impedance 2 ohms ?

It is a Yorkville- Bass Master 200XM -one 15" & Piezo Tweeter/30 watts
My pickup is just a Piezo element I took from an old Sony digital Organizer, shielded with copper Tape and soldered to a Jack.

[tornadobass]

If it's the Boss GE-7, it actually has a 1 meg input, so it would do the job for buffering. The EQ points are different than the bass version, which has a low band of 50Hz versus the guitar model's 100Hz. That might be its weakness for DB

[Bass]

Originally Posted by tornadobass

If it's the Boss GE-7, it actually has a 1 meg input, so it would do the job for buffering....

+1 it works fine. The EQ points are OK, the GEB-7 goes up to 10k I think which is a little unnecessary. So the GE-7 maybe has a better spread across the mids.

[Francois Blais]

Originally Posted by Mr.Bassist

200 watts at minimum impedance
minimum impedance 2 ohms ?

It is a Yorkville- Bass Master 200XM -one 15" & Piezo Tweeter/30 watts
My pickup is just a Piezo element I took from an old Sony digital Organizer, shielded with copper Tape and soldered to a Jack.

I was asking about the Boss EQ model.

[Mr.Bassist]

GE-7

[DrBassie]

I use this pedal (the guitar version) in conjunction with a Rev Solo II. It works! The band ranges I needed to tinker with worked better than the bass version.

[akmusicfreak]

The Boss TU2 chromatic pedal tuner matches impedance.
It has a 1M Ohm input on it. TU2 tuner is great, rugged , easy to read in dark, and it impedance matches.
http://www.bossus.com/gear/productde...&ParentId=252#

Bought mine used, best $50 I've spent.

But not to include that $50 I spent in TJ, but California court of law won't let me talk about that anymore.

Good Luck

[Wild Rice Chris]

The buffer is active when the pedal is bypassed, so you don't even need to turn it on. I believe the majority of BOSS pedals use the same buffer and have a 1meg input impedance. I used to use a BOSS BF-2 Flanger as a buffer. Made for some interesting solo tones..

[walterw]

you upright guys find 1M buffers to be sufficient?

for guitars and other instruments, anything below 6M or even 10M causes significant low end loss with piezo pickups.

[moles]

Many commercial preamps for DB piezo pickups are 1Mohm....