Anyone ever just boost using an EQ pedal?

[TheGreatGreen]

Sure do! The GE-7 is one of my favorite boosts.

 

[inyarak74]

Mxr 10

 

[Mike Oxhuge]

Boss GE7 as well. Especially mid boost in front of a JCM800, makes it sound closer to a plexi.

 

[ZEEGLER]

Yup, GE-7 here too. It's on my secondary board.

 

[cobrahead1030]

Ahh I see I'm not the only one using those Monster Cables

I had a handful of those that lasted for years before they finally gave out on me. That little 6 footer is the only one I have left now.

 

[Shreddy Mercury]

I had a handful of those that lasted for years before they finally gave out on me. That little 6 footer is the only one I have left now.

I bought mine around 2007 or so when I worked at GC. I've noticed the longer run ones are finally starting to give out around the ends and get crackly/poppy when moved. I guess it's time to get a bunch of BestTronics wire and Neutrik jacks and break out the soldering iron.

 

[Fusionbear]

I use an Archer Rockaway boost/eq. Really nice pedal!

 

[Brain Becker]

I use an MXR M-108 10 band eq to boost when I'm using my flying v.

 

[cobrahead1030]

I bought mine around 2007 or so when I worked at GC. I've noticed the longer run ones are finally starting to give out around the ends and get crackly/poppy when moved. I guess it's time to get a bunch of BestTronics wire and Neutrik jacks and break out the soldering iron.

That’s around the time I got all of mine, they were reasonably priced and always available. I recall being told that under warranty, you could just come into any GC & swap them out.

By the time mine started crapping out, those were long gone & Amazon made it much easier to just get a Planet Waves cable sent to the house the next day.

 

[MusicIsLife]

I used a GE-7 as my only boost from the late 90s until the late 2000s, into a Hughes and Kettner Access preamp. I'd pull down the 100Hz slightly on the GE-7, then 400Hz at +5, 800Hz at +3 (and 1.6k at maybe +1), and then push Level to +8 or so.

 

[Subclavian2]

I’ve used the GE7 as a boost a bunch back when I was gigging all the time.

I’ve tried the MXR before but I prefer that one in the loop for tome shaping.

 

[rstites]

It's interesting to see how many people are doing this, as the few times I tried using an old graphic EQ for a boost, it was very noisy compared to an OD as boost. Conceptually, it's fine, I just never had any luck. Now that I think about it, I probably haven't tried it since the 80's so newer EQ's are probably better in that regard.

I played around with a parametric EQ with more luck, but never bought/owned one so it was just a one off at someone's practice space.

 

[Little B]

I use 2 source audio eq2's for clean vol lead boosts in my rack,all under midi cc control,but not for any tone shaping.but I have the option if I need it.

 

[LPMojoGL]

Did this boost comparison a while back. The Dano EQ fared quite well, imo.

Thread 'Marshall JCM 800 2204 Overdrive Shootout'

Dec 7, 2021

LOFI quickie showing off different pedals in front on an 82 Marshall 2204.

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[Techdeth]

I been boosting my Larry with boss advanced eq 200 . From 2000s . No overdrive