EQ Pedal - What Order On Your Board?

[castpolymer]

I just picked up a MXR 10 Band EQ from GC ( used and cheap ). I figured I would put it after my tuner and before the dirt boxes. Where are the other TDPRI E.Q. users putting theirs?

 

[rcole_sooner]

Boss GE-7

 

[castpolymer]

Boss GE-7

I was actually wondering where you put your EQ in regards to pedal order on your board?

 

[Wrong-Note Rod]

LAST.

OK I lied.

ALMOST LAST.

After any sort of boost, overdrive, or compression or wah.

I've got a delay after my EQ.

the reason is, I use the EQ mostly as a clean boost, so i dont want it hitting a dirtbox first.

 

[castpolymer]

LAST.

OK I lied.

ALMOST LAST.

After any sort of boost, overdrive, or compression or wah.

I've got a delay after my EQ.

the reason is, I use the EQ mostly as a clean boost, so i dont want it hitting a dirtbox first.

Do you put it after any modulation like reverb or delay?

 

[JeradP]

Amp-Hum Debugger-EQ-long chain of malarkey-guitar

 

[looney77]

The spot mine works best in seems to be after comp, before dirt.

 

[rcole_sooner]

I was actually wondering where you put your EQ in regards to pedal order on your board?

I use my EQ more like a boost pedal. In fact, exactly and only like a boost pedal. I kick it on when I need to really boost my leads.

My pedal order is:

• guitar
• volume (passive w/ tuner)
• [noise gate]

• comp
• [true bypass looper]

1. wah
2. fuzz
3. od
4. eq
5. phaser
6. vibe

• [/true bypass looper]

• [/noise gate]
• delay
• reverb
• amp

This is with a passive VP. My other board has an active VP, and I'm not sure it will work in the first postion. I may have to put the active VP inside the noise gate.

 

[hecubus]

After dirt, before modulation.

 

[TaylorPlayer]

I like mine after dirt and before delay. Reverb is last after delay and right before the amp in my chain.

 

[honeycreek]

It depends what you want to do with it really. If you want to turn your guitar into a different sounding guitar, then put it before the dirt boxes. If you want to change the sound of a dirt box, then put it after that. If you want to adjust your whole signal (change the tone of the amp or simulate a speaker), put it at the very end. You could even put it in the effects loop of your amp.

Although I've used it other ways, my typical use is as a very clean boost towards the end of the chain.

 

[piece of ash]

Cast,

You can do interesting things with 2 EQ's. Put one in front of a muff (or whatever clipping box) and one behind. Boost the highs on the upstream box... and then cut them on the downstream box. You can get the sustain on the high string without crapping up the low strings.

 

[Big_Bend]

<hijack>

Are ya'll saying you like to put your clean boost pedals after the dirt? I would have thought the clean boost goes first into the dirt pedals.. Not that it really matters of course.

</hijack>

 

[TaylorPlayer]

<hijack>

Are ya'll saying you like to put your clean boost pedals after the dirt? I would have thought the clean boost goes first into the dirt pedals.. Not that it really matters of course.

</hijack>

For me, I like it after the dirt to boost the mids a bit and give a boost of volume if needed. I guess it boils down to what sound you want to eq or flavor. I like the sound of my guitar into my amp without eq and prefer to adjust the sound after boost pedals. It's whatever works best for your tone.

 

[sabby]

LAST.

OK I lied.

ALMOST LAST.

After any sort of boost, overdrive, or compression or wah.

I've got a delay after my EQ.

the reason is, I use the EQ mostly as a clean boost, so i dont want it hitting a dirtbox first.

Same here, but it's my always-on first-half of my tone stack, used in conjunction with the amp's tone stack.

 

[leonard d rock]

for acoustic, its after the compressor, and after it comes the chorus and delay. i use it to cut some mids and "silver-ize " the tone. i read that somewhere.

for electric, its after the od/distortion boxes since i usually use it to tweak the highs or the mids of the dirt sound.

i use the same eq: beta aivin/glx/boston engineering ge-100. its a ge-7clone

 

[honeycreek]

<hijack>

Are ya'll saying you like to put your clean boost pedals after the dirt? I would have thought the clean boost goes first into the dirt pedals.. Not that it really matters of course.

</hijack>

It depends what you want to do. I just want whatever my signal is to be louder so I put it after the dirt. If you want your signal to get louder and dirtier, then it would go before the dirt box. I have an LPB-1 that I use to boost before the dirt boxes.

 

[ddhr]

Mine used to be last, but is now right before the delay. The reason for the change is that I'm running stereo now. I use mine for a boost...

Guitar > Pitchblack tuner > Fat-Boost > GE-7 > HardWire D-7 > amps

 

[eddie knuckles]

how about a sonic stomp AND an EQ??? Do I really need both? I love what both of mine do but now I feel like I have too much going on

Tele

Diamond Compressor
Cry Baby
Boss CS-2
MXR 10-band
Fuchs Plush Drive
Dano OD-1
Hardwire Trem TR7
Carbon Copy
Hardwire DL8
Boss FRV-1
Sonic Stomp

Boss RC-50

Ampeg Jet
Vox Pathfinder

 

[tele salivas]

Cast,

You can do interesting things with 2 EQ's. Put one in front of a muff (or whatever clipping box) and one behind. Boost the highs on the upstream box... and then cut them on the downstream box. You can get the sustain on the high string without crapping up the low strings.

I now use two EQ's. Most of my tone sculpting comes from the first EQ, A Dano Fish n Chips7 slider that goes in after the tuner, before the dirt. Then I use an Electro Harmonix Knockout Attack EQ after the dirt to adjust lows , highs, compression needs depending on the guitar used. It's a good time. BTW, 'Polymer, how you liking the MXR? I have been curious about those for a long time.