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About EBS IQ and EBS CHORUS

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marcusmiller

Oct 26, 2003
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#1
I am planning to buy EBS pedals.
Are they all analog ?
They sound much better than my BOSS GT-6B.i am gonna sell it. id rather have a few nice analog ones.
What u think ?
I am also a nylon string guitar player.
Do u think they also would work well with my
nylon string electro-classical ??
Guitar effects or bass efeects are better for a nylon stringed instrument ???
 
#5
QUOTE " It is a very "clean" envelope (too clean for my tastes) so if you are looking for greasy funk filter tone look elsewhere. Not sure how it would sound with a guitar."

What do u exactly mean by very clean ?
Greasy means distorted ?
i prefer a nice analog clean sound i guess...
but i still wonder if the boos dyna wah is good
is it digital ?
 
#6
Boss Dyna Wah is digital, and basically an auto wah. The BassIQ is an envelope filter, is has up / down filters as well as an auto wah.

The EBS BassIQ is a very good pedal, but the sound is somewhat sterile. Not wet, like a Mutron.

All the pedals you mention here and in other threads have been discussed many times before in this forum. Searching will return many results.
 
#7
I own both. May be bass effects are better in a way that you don't loose your low-end in the signal. A lot of guitar effects lack the lows and don't become quite popular due to this.

I think the BassIQ is great, especially in downfilter mode, really funky... I use it all the time if needed. If the attack is set well, you can also use it for guitar. ;)

Unichorus is also great, one of the best choruses on the market, although not everybody agrees. For comments, look the topic: ' the best chorus?' or something. It does the job for guitar very well too, and I can't imagine that it doesn't work for acoustic guitar either.
 
#9
marcusmiller said:
So the EBS IQ has also some kind of wah setting int ? (like Jim dunlop Cry baby )
i can use it for my nylon guitar for phaser-like arpeggios + funky rhythms ???
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Hiya MM - the EBS BassIQ actually does *not* have an autowah setting in the sense of a rhythmic, cycling sweep. Its three settings are down filter, up filter, and Hi-Q filter, which is simply a sharper, twangier version of the up filter.

That said, it's my favorite envelope pedal thus far, if only for the second knob, which controls how long the filter takes to open. I like a slower filter than most nonadjustable pedals seem to offer.

And DMW is right, it *is* a very clean effect - i.e. it's not going to have that bit of "filter-overdrive" apparent in "greasier" units. It's a filter sound that you would have to apply your own drive to (if you wanted it), whether with a little bit of fuzz or with a really growly bass (like a fretless with rounds). Actually, Analog filters give you that overdrive more often than digital units, unless you clip (overload) the input of the digital.
 
#13
I use

all 6 pedals currently available from EBS

I play a nine string bass...

The ONLY reason I mention the nine string is to tell you that each and every one of the EBS pedals sound stellar in every possible position I could dream of playing on my bass...

i record little loops for fun with the pedals and echoplexes

I get great guitar and bass tones from the EBS line without changing a thing...

i never change the settings except from time to time i tweak the bass IQ sensitivity

and mess with the type setting on the chorus pedal

I don't think will go wrong with any of the EBS pedals in fact I would highly recommend buying them all!

;)
 

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