Sascha Franck
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Just the pedal on your picture.
Shaping Your Tone: Can We Discuss EQ And The Various Ways You Use It?
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Just the pedal on your picture.
KingsXJJ
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Ok, I’ll bite. Source?
Sascha Franck
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Source for what exactly? That it's not doing cleans?
KingsXJJ
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Ok, thanks for everything!
Sascha Franck
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Huh? I really don't know what kinda misunderstanding is going on right here...
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Ohhh, now I see - got the unit wrong. I googled Ibanez Pentatone and the first hits all referred to the preamp, not just the EQ. Sorry!
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Well now I have gone ahead and ordered the Pentatone Preamp and EQ @Sascha Franck !
We’ll see how that goes Amigo.
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Let us know!
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Finally this pedal gets a mention! I got one last year, I think they were pretty new at the time. Was eyeing a BOSS GE-7 and this was in the same precise range where I live. Stuck it in the loop of my Engl Fireball 25 and it’s been great. The layout of the EQ pedal was easy for me as an amateur, making it clear when fiddling around what a narrower Q does for example. A parametric would have been both too expensive and too complicated.
I’ve settled on reducing a tiny bit of some nasty sounding frequencies and boosting or cutting highs and lows depending on my mood. I can also easily reduce the overall level with it if I want to crank the gain on the clean channel which is lacking a volume control.
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Btw, as it apparently hasn't been mentioned yet, there's some sort of "common wisdom" when it comes to parametric EQs, namely: "Narrow band surgical cuts and broad band tone enhancing boosts."
Now, that doesn't necessarily apply to any pre-dirt EQing, but for anything used to finally shape the tone, that rule of thumb is usually making a lot of sense.
In case there's something annoying, it's usually a certain pretty exact frequency rather than a broad range around that frequency. A good example might be that certain "piezo click" which you may here rather often on cheaper piezo systems. A narrow band cut can tame a lot of that. But when you want to boost, say, some mids, a narrow band boost will likely sound pretty bad and stick out way too much, so you rather use a low Q value to achieve a more "natural" boost.
Now, that doesn't necessarily apply to any pre-dirt EQing, but for anything used to finally shape the tone, that rule of thumb is usually making a lot of sense.
In case there's something annoying, it's usually a certain pretty exact frequency rather than a broad range around that frequency. A good example might be that certain "piezo click" which you may here rather often on cheaper piezo systems. A narrow band cut can tame a lot of that. But when you want to boost, say, some mids, a narrow band boost will likely sound pretty bad and stick out way too much, so you rather use a low Q value to achieve a more "natural" boost.
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Here’s a photo of the preamp and EQ side by side. I haven’t had a chance to fire them both up together but hope to after work. I started a separate thread to promote visibility but I didn’t want to leave those following here out. I present the Ibanez Dynamic (and analog) Duo. Btw, these pedals are both some of the heaviest I’ve ever run across. I do wish the height matched but not a biggie really.
