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jaibeau said:
I had a trade deal with a guy in Canada, it was $55 to mail with insurance and $25 without from Texas. So I guess I had that in mind.
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Sounds about right probably. I use pirateship.com which is cheaper than the Post Office and I looked at the last pedal I shipped to Canada, it was $21. Prices have probably gone up since then so sounds right.
 
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I've shipped pedals to a variety of places in the USA, including all the way to Texas and always ship fully insured. It's never been more than $35 CAD for a pedal, which works out to $26 USD. It seems like it is significantly more expensive to ship from the USA to Canada, typically in the $40-45 USD range with insurance. That must have been a pretty expensive pedal if insurance cost $20 USD. Or maybe due to the carrier. ITs best to stick with USPS or Canada Post, every other carrier is a ripoff and usually results in exorbitant customs brokerage fees (UPS is horrible for this)

Anyways, a bit off topic, but Broughton's shipping is quite reasonable. Unfortunate that the top jacks won't work out. You could always buy the separate smaller HPF and LPF and Tetris them in to your board.
 
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+1 just buy it new. Broughton is a company worth spending your money at. The product is quality.

They do pop up on the classified once in a while, but typically not for much of discount because the resale value on these is good.

I don't leave home without a high pass filter. Literally, their on all of my boards. They take the mud out and help the rig to work at a much lower temp. Because it's not trying to reproduce all of those sun frequencies. Not to mention more clarity coming out of your cabinet.

The small HPF 'always on' box is not the most board friendly piece because everything is coming in and out of the front interface. I rig mine on the bottom side of the board, making it the first stop on the chain.
 
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logdrum said:
Source Audio's EQ2 pedal has an always on HPF settings from 10 - 80 Hz 10 Hz basically turns it off but I never touch it and it is set to 40 Hz by default
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If you want a HPF, a LPF, and eq on your board, a Source audio EQ2 does all that (and a tuner!!!) in one pedal. It's very functional, works very well at everything it does (the eq can be very flexible - fully parametric), and is quite a space saver as well. Yes, it costs a bunch, but not as much as all the pedals it replaces.
 
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micguy said:
If you want a HPF, a LPF, and eq on your board, a Source audio EQ2 does all that (and a tuner!!!) in one pedal. It's very functional, works very well at everything it does (the eq can be very flexible - fully parametric), and is quite a space saver as well. Yes, it costs a bunch, but not as much as all the pedals it replaces.
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With an expression pedal it is also a wah (you need to create a patch for this) and the output level has enough gain for it to become a clean boost. I forgot about the LPF, I thought it was only a high shelf on that side. Bu I am glad they baked in the HPF.

I paid 150 used for it on reverb. And the pedal was clean/mint and the seller included everything, power supply and the cables.
 
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jaibeau said:
Some eq pedals end with a shelf like the darkglass pedals but don’t call it a pass…
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A shelf is not the same as LP or HP filter.

Shelf: amount of cut is the same at all frequencies below (HP) or above (LP) the corner (-3 dB) frequency

Filter: amount of cut increases the farther away from the corner frequency.

Example: take a filter or EQ that is -3 dB at 100Hz.

Assuming it is a 12 db/oct filter (2 poles), at 50Hz the level will be -15dB and at 25 Hz it will be -27dB. A 24/dB/oct (four pole) filter would be more extreme, -27dB at 50Hz and -51 dB at 25Hz.

Assuming it is a shelf , it would be down -3dB at all frequencies below 100Hz.
 
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Bassgeer said:
Unfortunate that the top jacks won't work out. You could always buy the separate smaller HPF and LPF and Tetris them in to your board.
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Plus there is this mod:
Broughton HPF/BBA Enclosure Mods - Pedalnetics
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Btbp said:
@jaibeau - just FYI in case you haven't already seen these:

Wiki: High Pass and Low Pass Filters | TalkBass.com

The good thread: High Pass Filter (HPF) and Low Pass Filter (LPF) Mega Thread (what @brianrost and @mmbongo mention above is covered in this thread)

The entertaining thread: If HPF’s are such a trendy thing now... (@agedhorse weighs in)

(and BTW you and I pinged back and forth on the FB DFW Marketplace re Broughton and SushiBox)
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Right on.. thx , I bought the HPF LPF after pedal board Tetris- actually worked out better than the side jacks, just waiting on it to arrive.
 
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jaibeau said:
Right on.. thx , I bought the HPF LPF after pedal board Tetris- actually worked out better than the side jacks, just waiting on it to arrive.
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Those Broughton HPF/LPFs are good. I've had one for several years and used it always on with both double bass and electric. Been trying one of his always on HPFs with lately and will probably run with that for now. Hearing what the LPF does was super educational but I didn't use it very often. Same with the on/off foot switch. When I started using a HPF being able to A/B the filtered signal and the non-filtered was invaluable especially in a muddy sounding room where you're walking the edge between creating some articulation on the low notes and gutting your sound. I might still miss that feature occasionally.
 

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