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EQ anybody?

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Does anybody uses EQ (pedals) for the guitars here? What do you do with it? What's your purpose with it? After fuzzes to strenghten some mids or what?

And the bass guys:
i have a london city 100 watt tube top that i play with 2x12. Any experience with an EQ to get it a little bit fuller in the bottom if needed? (Don't get me wrong, the amp kills right now played with a preci with pick - just in case you want to :joy: ) And no, i don't want any other cabs...

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I play in a two piece and use my English Muff'n as an EQ/pre amp. My amp is set up max bass, mids 8/12, and treble 4/12. I set the Muff'n to Max bass, and the mids and treble around noon.

I basically use it to give me a bunch of low end while still negotiating with the highs enough to come through for some brightness. With the muff'n my cleans are fat enough. At a sound check for a show we played the clean part of "About a Girl" and the sound guy/old friend came up to me and said "you need a bassist." I grinned and proceeded to turn on my Super Tri-fuzz and played a chord.

He took back his statement. :evil:
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I have an amp with the standard treble/mids/bass passive preamp EQ and an active 5 band power amp EQ. I usually just set the 5 band flat and the T/M/B to taste. I don't really see the point in a pedal EQ with my setup.
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Nice work on the sound guy :rock: :rock: :rock:
PumpkinPieces is on it! His technique is the way i think you should go with as well!
I have found pedals such as a "Dark Boost" makes drastic awesome changes to low end while retaining sone awesome mid's n hi's!
Russian "styled" BMs' also sound awesome and bring the warm lows AND stacking pedals add so much more dimension and texture to your sound or set up.
I have used eqs' on guitar and found they are most dynamic being used for momentary boosts or crazy extreme guitar sounds.
Used as a primary eq I think really boxes in and tames my sound. So i leave it for "over the top overdubs in the studio!
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nbabmf wrote:I have an amp with the standard treble/mids/bass passive preamp EQ and an active 5 band power amp EQ. I usually just set the 5 band flat and the T/M/B to taste. I don't really see the point in a pedal EQ with my setup.



And that amp is...?







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I'm trying to get an MXR 6 band on the cheaps, because I've noticed my cleans get kinda farty and one of my fuzzes doesn't cut enough while the other cuts to much! :wha?:

All very different problems though. :lol:
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I don't use one, and I normally plug into the in on my amp that bypasses the eq section.

However, I would LOVE to do what PP does and have a Muff'n as a preamp type thing, my bass player friend does the same thing.

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I have a Fromel Shape EQ at the beginning of my chain in buffered mode and always on. I have my amp, a 71 Silverface, with its vibrato channel with Treble at 7/10, Mids 7/10, Lows 10/10 and the Fromel with the Mid Q at 3:00 and the Mid at 3:00, the low at 1:00 and treble at 11:00. I than have after all my fuzz/OD and Dr. Scientist Cleanness that I use to boost my dirts into solo/loudness. I mess around with this a lot and change it quite often, but right now I have it cutting the mids out with equal boosts to low and treble, with the gain at noon and the volume to loud.
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My Boss GE-7 is hooked into the fx loop of my amp at all times. It's simple, affordable, and just darn handy. I think there is an Analogman mod to make it completely noise free, but I can't really tell that the stock version has any real problems.
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I used to use an mxr 10-band at the front of my chain but that disappeared when I came here and I was overrun with gas. I thought about bringing it back.
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proroby wrote:I have a Fromel Shape EQ at the beginning of my chain in buffered mode and always on. I have my amp, a 71 Silverface, with its vibrato channel with Treble at 7/10, Mids 7/10, Lows 10/10 and the Fromel with the Mid Q at 3:00 and the Mid at 3:00, the low at 1:00 and treble at 11:00. I than have after all my fuzz/OD and Dr. Scientist Cleanness that I use to boost my dirts into solo/loudness. I mess around with this a lot and change it quite often, but right now I have it cutting the mids out with equal boosts to low and treble, with the gain at noon and the volume to loud.


Hah I use a fromel/cleanness setup as well to shape my mrakv.
The fromel is set in buffer mode after dirt pedals that need an extra something (usually adding lows and a some mids)
The cleanness is more an amp footswitchable preset tool (right now a hefty mid/gain boost to my clean/crunch channels).
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Since buying a Bogner Duende, my Empress ParaEQ has been sitting unused... great for tweaking up a distortion pedal - I was only using the EQ for a less impressive tube amp that is now gone.
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Thanky guys for the insight views on your sound shaping. So probably i will not buy any EQ Pedal (thought of a MXR). I dont't feel the need for guitar.
Pumkins approach with the english Muff'n sounds quite interestind. Let's see, if i have anything like that laying around :)

for bass is another case but i will wait untill i got my basement refurbishet and the rig standing there. :whateva:

greetz and thanks again!
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I thought about using the EHX Attack Equalizer (Knock Out) For EQ... because... well that's what it is basically, a basic 3 Band EQ, Hi & Lo Pass Filter, not a proper Band pass for mids but it'll do at the price.
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