Which eq pedals are the ticket?

[VonBonfire]

theyre tools of a sucker.
do you really think one can pinpoint perfect tone 100% all day in all venues
what happens when you finally have the 2 dozen knobs all set to your dream tone in your head.

I think you are over-complicating it in your mind. You dial in a base tone at home, then all that is needed at the venue, if anything, is very small adjustments to your rig. If you run a simple pedalboard to begin with it's not that difficult and I say that as someone who just isn't very knob savvy when it comes to more complicated amps and pedalboards. If I can do it, so can you.

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I think member @lol needs to see this because he mentioned bass related stuff and I think this would work well in a bass application too.

 

[70 Mach 1]

I think you are over-complicating it in your mind. You dial in a base tone at home, then all that is needed at the venue, if anything, is very small adjustments to your rig. If you run a simple pedalboard to begin with it's not that difficult and I say that as someone who just isn't very knob savvy when it comes to more complicated amps and pedalboards. If I can do it, so can you.


I think member @lol needs to see this because he mentioned bass related stuff and I think this would work well in a bass application too.

why are you here bullshitting and not practicing for your show tomorrow

BTW i could have came. my AC plans got cancelled last minute

now i have nothing do all W/E

 

[lol]

I think you are over-complicating it in your mind. You dial in a base tone at home, then all that is needed at the venue, if anything, is very small adjustments to your rig. If you run a simple pedalboard to begin with it's not that difficult and I say that as someone who just isn't very knob savvy when it comes to more complicated amps and pedalboards. If I can do it, so can you.


I think member @lol needs to see this because he mentioned bass related stuff and I think this would work well in a bass application too.

Yeah I was looking at the empress paraEQ bass but damn its pricey. And the pettyjohn EQ is even pricier. The EQ on my svt preamp is solid, but it is an active EQ and just unnecessarily finicky IMO but I think that's pretty standard for an active eq.

 

[VonBonfire]

why are you here bullshitting and not practicing for your show tomorrow

BTW i could have came. my AC plans got cancelled last minute

now i have nothing do all W/E

My dear friend, with all due respect...I have put 3-6 hours in every day on the guitar except two days since March. I finally slacked off to a couple hours a day the past couple days because otherwise you go into your show burnt out. I'm already in for an hour+ plus a string change today plus I'm gigging tonight and have to leave at 10 a.m the next day since it's my festival. As for yourself....your excuses for not being here sound best to the person making them.

 

[VonBonfire]

Yeah I was looking at the empress paraEQ bass but damn its pricey. And the pettyjohn EQ is even pricier. The EQ on my svt preamp is solid, but it is an active EQ and just unnecessarily finicky IMO but I think that's pretty standard for an active eq.

Waynzo's pultec is definitely worth a close look. Because he made it pedalboard friendly it looks more complicated than it actually is. Once you're dialed in it doesn't really matter. I do take pictures of all my settings on every pedal for reference at gigs in case they get bumped en route. I should probably put some pointer-markers on my pedals but so far, so good.

 

[anomaly]

When I had my Dime rig I had a MXR 6 band, a Furman pq-3 and pq-4. That 6 band works great as a booster and the newer ones sound just as good but quieter than the vintage ones. The Furman EQ's are awesome as well. I had all this stuff up front shaping the signal before the amp. The 6 band, pq-3, a ns-2 all in front of an old Randall RG. Nails that tone.

 

[lol]

Waynzo's pultec is definitely worth a close look. Because he made it pedalboard friendly it looks more complicated than it actually is. Once you're dialed in it doesn't really matter. I do take pictures of all my settings on every pedal for reference at gigs in case they get bumped en route. I should probably put some pointer-markers on my pedals but so far, so good.

Noice do you have a link to that pedal? Thankfully I don't do any gigging, as I still find myself changing settings frequently on the svt preamp at home. The trace elliot on its own is super simple. Treble, mid/mid pull/bass, deep switch and bright switch. Super easy to dial in and get a good sound. But because of that buzzing sound it makes, I've been having to use the svt preamp to not hear that sound lol. It's a good sounding preamp, but as I said, its super finicky.

 

[griff10672]

I think you are over-complicating it in your mind. You dial in a base tone at home, then all that is needed at the venue, if anything, is very small adjustments to your rig. If you run a simple pedalboard to begin with it's not that difficult and I say that as someone who just isn't very knob savvy when it comes to more complicated amps and pedalboards. If I can do it, so can you.


I think member @lol needs to see this because he mentioned bass related stuff and I think this would work well in a bass application too.

I've got a Brighton Audio Resonant Filter EQ coming soon ...... that's supposed to be really good for Bass

 

[VonBonfire]

Noice do you have a link to that pedal? Thankfully I don't do any gigging, as I still find myself changing settings frequently on the svt preamp at home. The trace elliot on its own is super simple. Treble, mid/mid pull/bass, deep switch and bright switch. Super easy to dial in and get a good sound. But because of that buzzing sound it makes, I've been having to use the svt preamp to not hear that sound lol. It's a good sounding preamp, but as I said, its super finicky.

This is what Wayne based his pedal around:

 

[lol]

This is what Wayne based his pedal around:

wo cool checking it out!

 

[japetus]

Hey @lol if Waynes EQ sounds like something that interests you, I could send you mine to try out for a few weeks. You might want to ask Wayne if he is still making them, I am not sure.

 

[griff10672]

This is what Wayne based his pedal around:

it's pretty much a straight clone of it ..... but I squeezed it into a 125B enclosure

 

[griff10672]

Hey @lol if Waynes EQ sounds like something that interests you, I could send you mine to try out for a few weeks. You might want to ask Wayne if he is still making them, I am not sure.

someone wants to order one ...... I'll make it .... as with all my stuff

 

[japetus]

I think member @lol needs to see this because he mentioned bass related stuff and I think this would work well in a bass application too.

They are absolutely killer for bass, in fact I have been using mine for bass more than guitar (but they are still great with guitar too). Really gives you that flexability in dialing in those mids/low mids.

 

[lol]

Hey @lol if Waynes EQ sounds like something that interests you, I could send you mine to try out for a few weeks. You might want to ask Wayne if he is still making them, I am not sure.

Sure that would be cool, I appreciate it! If the price is right I’d be able to snag one asap. Money is tight atm so the empress or the pettyjohn are a bit out of reach for the moment.

 

[japetus]

Sure that would be cool, I appreciate it! If the price is right I’d be able to snag one asap. Money is tight atm so the empress or the pettyjohn are a bit out of reach for the moment.

Pm me your info mang

 

[The~Kid]

jheez.
yall love shit full of knobs switches and buttons

i need simple and the less crap i have to fuck with the better off i am

IME the less you have, the more you have.....


It's hard to explain but with more shit and knobs and switches and stuff or more variables in general you actually have more opportunity to make more less than desirable tones than actual good ones and the good tone can elude one due to all the options.....


Essentially the simpler you keep it the easier it is to find a good tone IME and harder to mess things up IMO

 

[Meeotch]

Favorite overall but don't pay retail: Whirlwind Perfect 10
Can't go wrong/easy to find used: MXR 10-band
Favorite PEQ/killer value: Ibanez Pentatone

 

[japetus]

IME the less you have, the more you have.....


It's hard to explain but with more shit and knobs and switches and stuff or more variables in general you actually have more opportunity to make more less than desirable tones than actual good ones and the good tone can elude one due to all the options.....


Essentially the simpler you keep it the easier it is to find a good tone IME and harder to mess things up IMO

Isn't someone looking for an EQ (which this thread is about) by default looking for greater "knobs and switches" to gain further control over tone equalization? What is the sense of anything you said in your post, or anything you posted that may have helped OP gain insight to this question?

 

[The~Kid]

Isn't someone looking for an EQ (which this thread is about) by default looking for greater "knobs and switches" to gain further control over tone equalization? What is the sense of anything you said in your post, or anything you posted that may have helped OP gain insight to this question?

OPs post says 6, 7 or 10 or Parametric EQ....


So EQ in general. It doesn't necessarily account to having a shit ton of switches, knobs and stuff.... and well just my take on EQs