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EQ Pedals

#3
My weird answer: I use an Invalid Link Removed. It's more of a parametric gain boost coupled with a boost/cut filter for treble and bass, but it's perfect for what I use it for. Adds a great warmness and allows me to change what frequency range my tone is on the fly using the "Q" range control. I sincerely have no idea why it's not more popular.

I've also played through the old Trace Elliot compressor/EQ pedals and they're extremely nice, too. I highly regret trading mine away.
 
#4
So, take my thoughts with a grain of salt. I think I'm in the minority.

I'm not a big tone guy since I'm one of those guys that says that 90% of your tone goes away the instant you get away from the stage. This is true for pretty much all my gigs (dive bars, crappy rooms not set up for concerts, etc.). As such, I just use my SansAmp DI for EQ when I need a dramatic shift in tone, like going from clean tone to a reggae-dub sound. That, coupled with tone knobs or an active bass with EQ makes me not inclined to get an EQ pedal. I have pretty good EQs on my heads so that I can notch out resonant frequencies and try to tune to the kick to get things a little less muddy for the audience, but for anything else I use the SansAmp and tone knobs.
 
#8
Too bad the amp manufacturers or most of them anyway, stopped giving the player at least one paramid control. That old Peavey Mark IV bass head that I still have (still works) had one and my Tour 450 has a 'shape' control.
I like ryansalmond's link. If you can't get a tome outta this 3-band parametric EQ, it ain't to be had.
Anyone know of any other parametric EQ's of other makes?
 
#14
Also I should point out that the wmd can take up to 24v, and really responds nicely with lots of extra headroom if you give it the extra voltage. I don't think their website shows it but the current version has an additional little knob for overall boost, making it essentially a preamp with surgical precision control over the sound.
 
#17
Bought me an EQ recently after finding the need to alternate my tone. I decided on a graphic EQ to be able to get detailed control at specific frequencies.
The Source Audio Programmable EQ was my choice, since it is compact and can store 4 different EQ settings.
Compared to other EQ pedals I cannot tell you how it holds up, since this is the only one I've owned. But I'm really happy with mine and think it sounds great.

Demo/info from Source Audio.
http://www.sourceaudio.net/products/toolblox/programmable_eq.php
 
#18
Empress ParaEQ. At first glance it looks like it is a standard bass, mids, treble pedal. However, when you look more closely, it can easily be a low mid, mid mid, high mid pedal, which is how I use it. All three are sweepable, all three have three way q switches, and it will run happily from 9-24 volts. It's done wonders for my sound.
 
#20
Another +1 for the Empress Para EQ. I'm an idiot when it comes to setting parametric eqs up correctly, but I literally tried the Para EQ out on an upright gig and a few haphazard turns of the knobs drastically improved the sound in a difficult room.
 

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