Well, I got my EQ pedal up and running, naturally with like 3 hours of playing around with my signal chain and the EQ settings. It is a really great pedal! I only have 3 things in my chain, an MXR M87 compressor, a Le Bass preamp and the SA EQ. My amp is a TC BQ500 into a Seizemic 15" speaker/cab. Even with only those 3 things I was searching high and low on where to put what in the chain.You think with only 3 things it would be easy. No, it wasn't (it was all a psychological nightmare), and I gave up on everyone's pedal positional advice and and went with what they all defaulted to, which was 'wherever you want to put it'. My end goal was to have all the tone controls on my amp flat, all the tone controls on both channels of the Le Bass flat and to only make tone adjustments with the EQ, AND have unity gain on all pedals when on or off. I thought at first to put the compressor last, I figured I would take control of the entire modified signal and prepare it for the amp head. I didn't like the final sound. I ended up putting the bass guitar into the Le Bass first and set all the controls on both channels flat of Le Bass flat.I got a nice warm tubey sound that way. Then out of Le Bass into the compressor, again dialing in unity gain and 4:1 compression. I play with a pick so I have somewhat fast attack and medium release. Then that into the SA EQ, channel 1. Inside the EQ GUI, I use auto detect and split the EQ using serial parametric. This allowed me to assign a low freq 10 band range on the one EQ from 31hz to 200hz. On the other EQ I had 10 bands from like 250hz to 8000hz. It worked perfect for what I wanted to do, as it does re-combine the high and low on the output. From there I went right into the amp. I like the SA EQ right before the amp because I think it adds such a good sound, kind of like expanding on the compressed signal but not to the point of needing compression again. I attained my goal of doing what I wanted to do with the SA EQ pedal, maintaining unity gain throughout and keeping the TC amp and Le Bass preamp flat.
I would like to be able to manipulate a wider range on the LFP and HPF to where you can also have control of the rolloff. In the DAW videos I was watching about EQ tips, they call that the 'order' I think? You know, a sharp drop off versus a gradual curve. I think it would be neat to see input and output signal meters in the GUI as well, if your open to suggestions. I haven't used the tuner yet, but I was wondering, what is the 'low bass' vs 'high bass' tuner setting do? When do you think you might have the filter range widened in the GUI?
