NPD: Boss GE-7

[Highway 49]

So, not the new rotary, swirly Boss pedal, but a Boss GE-7 (secondhand from Rich Tone Music for £69, in pretty much unused condition).
I haven’t really done more than switch it on but I’m hoping it will help with:
1. subtly taming my amps high or low end, depending on what’s needed (sometimes the Princeton Reverb could do with a notch off the top end and the tweed Champs could do with a touch less bass)
2. EQ for my acoustic when playing through a guitar amp via a pickup (it’s a great sound but can be difficult to control)
3. a kind of faux treble booster to use with my Fuzz War in the style of the Fuzz War Overload as used by John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees (I don’t know if this will work but there’s a guy on YouTube giving it a go).
I really don’t know how any of this will work but looking forward to experimenting…

 

[Gimble]

Growing up in El Paso, Texas, USA the GE-7 was required by most younger guitarists playing Thrash Metal for the scooped mids tone.

It usually ran Boss DS-1, GE-7 and for the ones that could afford it a Delay usually into a Peavey solid state amplifier of differing sizes, Bandit 112, Backstage 110, etc.

 

[Gladhander]

I’ve had one for years and just recently started using it to sculpt different sounds like lo-fi radio and such.

 

[scottser]

Mine now lives on my acoustic board. It's an essential piece of kit, especially for piezo pickups or transducers.

 

[sadfield]

So much potential from a simple pedal. Mine is at the end of my chain for tone shaping, boost or attenuator as required.

 

[Highway 49]

I thought it would be useful but not that exciting… but it’s really useful and very exciting. It feels like any old overdrive coupled with a Boss GE-7 could make a large proportion of the pedal market redundant. I’m loving it, and I’ve barely started

 

[Highway 49]

Growing up in El Paso, Texas, USA the GE-7 was required by most younger guitarists playing Thrash Metal for the scooped mids tone.

It usually ran Boss DS-1, GE-7 and for the ones that could afford it a Delay usually into a Peavey solid state amplifier of differing sizes, Bandit 112, Backstage 110, etc.

Thanks, that is a cool story

 

[trandy9850]

The GE-7 is the secret weapon pedal….it is, of course, a fine EQ….but it’s also a great volume boost pedal…or you can have it “off” and pre-select a different tonal option on it to fit different parts of a song….it could be for solo work or a different kind of sound from you normal settings which you can turn on with the tap of your toe.

You can do so much with it from a creative viewpoint.

 

[sadfield]

It feels like any old overdrive coupled with a Boss GE-7 could make a large proportion of the pedal market redundant.

I've said this before. Boss should make a Blues driver with the eq of the GE-7 as a Waza pedal. A bit like the J Rocket Melody.

 

[Skyhook]

It was an always-on pedal for about a decade for me but not for guitar.
I used it to counter the inherent deficiencies of a decidedly crappy
recording mic. Mine still has a sticker on the side denoting which
frequencies to boost for the recording mic.

 

[trandy9850]

I also use one as an “always on” device.

 

[thescarecrow]

I like my GE-7 so much that I'm thinking about putting another one on my board. It is a VERY useful pedal!
It is great for making adjustment to an amp, plus all of the other uses, I could easily use two of them.

 

[kuch]

Since I got mine a few years ago, I don't think I could live without it. It's great for electric but even more essential for shaping the sounds of my plugged in acoustic.

Have fun!

 

[Long_Ghost]

"Growing up in El Paso, Texas, USA "

I was thrown out of Eastwood High School.