How you use your EQ?

In the loop. I use a GE7 with the 800 hz scoped down to just above the no. 2 line from the bottom. This is in context to my Friedman amp. I'm basically copying the Mesa thing with 750 slider. I don't tend to use the other sliders as I can get what I want from the amp.
 
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VonBonfire said:
This makes sense to me. So since my amp EQ is as good as it gets now with treble on 10 and bass and mids all the way down I just wanted to be able to fine tune it, mostly for my lead sound. If I raise the mids on the amp's control at all it just starts to gets muddy, same with the bass. The balance of ES-Twin is good with those settings and my VonBonfire pedal is working great with it. It's basically invisible blended with a cranked Twin. The pedal has a bass and tone control on it but I feel like I might be able to clean things up with the pedal's current settings if I have an actual EQ pedal where I can fine tune any of the frequencies that seem wrong to me.

I ride my guitar's volume for pretty much everything and the pedals sit on top of, or in front of the amp, always on. Unless I am reading you wrong it seems like I should try it before the boots first in that situation? Or do you think what I am describing sounds like it should go after the boots? Thanks for your help.
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Ultimately it depends on what you want the EQ to do. An EQ will EQ everything before it but it will impact the character of the distortion of everything after it. If everything in the chain is linear (in other words, no distortion) then it won't matter. But your rig uses distortion so it does matter. :)

If you want to use the EQ to shape the output frequencies of the boost, then I'd put the EQ after the boost (as long as the EQ has the headroom to take a boosted signal) but if you want to mostly shape the frequencies of your guitar itself, I'd put the EQ as early in the chain as possible (right after compression, so you'll still be able to EQ the compressed sound and the EQ settings won't mess with your compression threshold settings).

So yep I'd still start with EQ before the boost. However, there are no rules. Try it in all the ways you think might possibly work and compare.
 
ThorpyFX Team Medic in place of a boost in front has been a godsend pedal. Kick it on with levels down as a clean channel to a NMV amp too.
 
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