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Recommendation for a graphic EQ pedal for bass

#41
Has anyone ever tried the Joyo 6-band EQ? <Head down, Helmet and Flak Jacket On, dives into foxhole>. I've recently added the Joyo Ultimate Overdrive to my pedal board. For $26 on Amazon Prime I got a pretty good Fulltone OCD clone. My brother has a Fulltone and we're going to A/B them and see if we can find out how close they really are. In any case, the Joyo seems to have the frequency bands I'm interested in and costs a little less than half of the MXR unit. Thoughts? </Head down, Helmet and Flak Jacket On, dives into foxhole>
 
#42
It's an EQ... don't go for features, go for tone... don't cheap out... tone is the first thing to go out the window when making a cheap pedal... in manufacturing the good sounding components of a design are swapped out for whatever is cheapest in bulk. Boss, MXR, DOD, Ibanez... I'm looking at you.

In terms of fidelity, when compared to boss and mxr level stuff, the old Yamaha GB-100 will cost just a little more, but sounds like a 96K recording vs. a 44.1 recording, especially in the deeper range of 40 - 80... I've tried them all and these can't be beat. The downside is they break easily... the power connection and jacks don't like to stay married to the circuit board... pretty bad, but the components sound like gold... if you mount it to a pedal board where you don't plug it in/out a lot, it'll last forever, and you can leap onto the thing like any decent pedal without hurting it, as long as you don't crush the jacks... don't toss it around loose with cables plugged in, those connections will start to break instantly.
 

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