EQ Pedal Settings

[Clint 55]

I came up with this one just now. Sounds filthy. My favorite toanz to go for so far are woman tone or grungy tone. metalchurch made me get an eq pedal and I'm so glad I did. It's essential for me along with tuner, overdrive, and reverb. What are some settings you like?

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: EQ Pedal Settings

Depends on the guitar, I have very specific EQ curves for Hollow and Semi Holly guitars where 400hz and 800hz are so key to getting the best possible tone on those. Depending on the guitar you will likely trim out some or a lot of 400hz or 800 hz

For most guitars overall my EQ looks like 100 (-3) 200 (0) 400 (+3) 800 (-2) 1.6 (0) 3.2 (+3) 6.4 (0) or like 2 sawtooth waveforms in a row.

looks kind of like this (ignore the numerical values)

 

[GuitarStv]

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I kinda find that around the 900 - 1.8 kHz range is super important for guitar tone. Drop it too low and you lose all cut and definition in your sound . . . pump it up too high and all you've got is screech. Usually I'll keep things mostly flat except for sliders in that range when I'm playing with EQ . . . and typically only bump things +/-3 dB at most to make a lead part pop out a bit more, or a rhythm bit sit a tad further back.

 

[devastone]

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I came up with this one just now. Sounds filthy. My favorite toanz to go for so far are woman tone or grungy tone. metalchurch made me get an eq pedal and I'm so glad I did. It's essential for me along with tuner, overdrive, and reverb. What are some settings you like?

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Looking at that picture I would guess you play at low volumes, at higher volumes you would probably want to cut the 100Hz range to tighten it up.

 

[LLL]

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I like to boost 800Hz to tighten things up and give warmth.

(EDIT: In front of a tube amp, that is)

 

[Artie]

Re: EQ Pedal Settings

A few years ago, I bought the MXR 6-band EQ pedal. It was fun for an hour or two. Now it collects dust on the shelf. I prefer to shape my tone with careful pup selection. Even my amp tone knobs are straight up.

 

[NegativeEase]

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Looking at that picture I would guess you play at low volumes, at higher volumes you would probably want to cut the 100Hz range to tighten it up.

Agreed, these settings would be a disaster through my rig.... but I run Hot all the way through.

 

[BeKindRewind]

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My settings on my Katana. Subtle, but makes a huge difference towards sounding how I want to sound. My settings on the amp already are bass 3. mid 8. treble 9. presence 9.

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[Mincer]

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I might use a parametric on the channel of the PA system, but usually I can get the sound I want out of my rig without using a graphic. I also figured out that when dialing in any EQ over 15 minutes gets my ears really tired, and I can't tell what sounds 'better' to me.

 

[chadd]

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Looking at that picture I would guess you play at low volumes, at higher volumes you would probably want to cut the 100Hz range to tighten it up.

That would make mud in a live mix, the sound man would be pulling all that low end right back out.

 

[Clint 55]

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^ Uh huh probably. I could come up with grungy sounds with less slop for a band setting. I do like slop tho. Here is my basic bass boost that I use most often.

 

[Clint 55]

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I might use a parametric on the channel of the PA system, but usually I can get the sound I want out of my rig without using a graphic. I also figured out that when dialing in any EQ over 15 minutes gets my ears really tired, and I can't tell what sounds 'better' to me.

Same. I don't live with it on. It's just another setting that I can switch on if I feel like it. Like my bass boost woman tone.

 

[Clint 55]

Re: EQ Pedal Settings

Some bassy settings.

 

[Coma]

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Actually had to decrease volume for unity gain.

 

[PFDarkside]

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Has anyone tried any of the programmable EQ pedals? Boss 200, Free the Tone, Source Audio, old rack units? Any others?

 

[NegativeEase]

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Actually had to decrease volume for unity gain.

Yep, that will almost always be the case BTW, as any individual slider above 0 Db needs to be compensated for with a drop in overall volume or have enough individual cuts below 0 to keep overall unity. -and Since most people boost more than cut, they can always expect that the Volume will be set below 0 Db to achieve this.

 

[NegativeEase]

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Has anyone tried any of the programmable EQ pedals? Boss 200, Free the Tone, Source Audio, old rack units? Any others?

I have, and it was quite impressive, yet felt like I was opening Pandora's box with that much power on the fly. I thought it would make me constantly fidgeting -instead of dialing permutations in to a set few and then doing minor room compensation at the gig with the push of a slider.

In the right scenario, it would be excellent, but for me it would be adding risk and complexity to a road rig -for the same reason I don't use Chase Bliss pedals live... lol.

Occam's Razor is the only way to stay sane if you want to travel.

 

[PFDarkside]

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I have, and it was quite impressive, yet felt like I was opening Pandora's box with that much power on the fly. I thought it would make me constantly fidgeting -instead of dialing permutations in to a set few and then doing minor room compensation at the gig with the push of a slider.

In the right scenario, it would be excellent, but for me it would be adding risk and complexity to a road rig -for the same reason I don't use Chase Bliss pedals live... lol.

Occam's Razor is the only way to stay sane if you want to travel.

That’s all very true.

I’ve been mulling over getting a JVM410HJS (Satriani Marshall), it’s got 4 channels, each with 3 modes, MIDI programmable. The only thing is that the EQ is not midi controllable. Adding a programmable EQ in the loop would get a lot of flexibility. I’m not necessarily looking for 4,385,034 sounds, but being able to use all three modes of the low gain channels and dialing in a different EQ would be awesome. Basically set the amp and the EQ to the same MIDI channel, so preset 1 is a scooped clean, 2 is a fat clean, 3 is a JTM mild breakup, etc.

 

[NegativeEase]

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That’s all very true.

I’ve been mulling over getting a JVM410HJS (Satriani Marshall), it’s got 4 channels, each with 3 modes, MIDI programmable. The only thing is that the EQ is not midi controllable. Adding a programmable EQ in the loop would get a lot of flexibility. I’m not necessarily looking for 4,385,034 sounds, but being able to use all three modes of the low gain channels and dialing in a different EQ would be awesome. Basically set the amp and the EQ to the same MIDI channel, so preset 1 is a scooped clean, 2 is a fat clean, 3 is a JTM mild breakup, etc.

well, I think the digital EQ would work well with that kind of discipline.

 

[chadd]

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Has anyone tried any of the programmable EQ pedals? Boss 200, Free the Tone, Source Audio, old rack units? Any others?

Yep, the Boss EQ200. I used it to cut low end on one setting, boost a mid frequency on another, an overall cut on another.... I didn't generally change it on the fly. I would swap presets before a song and toggle the loop on or off if i wanted it.