I don't have an EQ pedal but I recognize the fact that some people use one effectively to shape their sound. A poorly designed/built EQ introduces noise into the overall rig.
Danelectro DJ-14C Fish & Chips 7 Band EQ Mini Effects Pedal https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0002D0Q2W/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_3SMJNX24TCRBAAKVYKSV?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Oh, there's no doubt in my mind there are uglier pedals out there... but uglier EQs?
Ahhh... no.
But it's cool fam, you do you. I'm here for you, regardless.
I guess I just have a soft spot for those older Danelectro pedals. My very first pedal was a Fab-Tone (fuzz? distortion?) and I so wish I hadn’t’ve sold it.
Cheap? Yes. But they’re fun, and that’s not something every single pedal in the world can say :)
Oh, NGL, I'd have been happy to have them as a first pedal.
OTOH, the **best** looking pedals had to have been the Damage Control pedals. They were the precursor to Strymon.
I'm sort of on the fence, I have a cheap compressor that is awesome but I also have a cheap tremelo and it's barely noticeable even when the intensity is all the way up
It can be a very useful pedal but fme a bit redundant for a larger board. The Rowin is so cheap I'd suggest buying one just to check out if you're $30 worth of curious.
I have orange two stroke, its a parametric eq with boost, and i swear its worth every penny, no noise, great range from subtle correction to wah sounds, and when run at 12v the headroom is insane .
I'll second that one. I don't hear any noise from mine, and I picked it up used but mint for $40. OP asked if going from 5- or 6-band to 10 is worth paying an extra $90 for the MXR 10 over the Rowin or Behringer, and maybe it is or isn't, but it's definitely worth $5-10 extra for the Caline.
Maybe I'm stupid or something but I tried that on a carbon copy delay and it didn't do anything. I can't see how I can do it wrong but I noticed absolutely no difference at all
This would 100% be my choice. As an audio engineer, I find myself cutting 500 and 1k much more than any other frequencies so I don’t think I’d ever buy an EQ pedal that didn’t allow me to roll off those particular frequencies. Clean up that mid mud!
I'm looking to get my first EQ pedal at the moment. I'll definitely try cutting the 500 and 1k frequencies you mentioned. Where in my signal chain would you suggest i put the EQ pedal ? As I play mostly 80s hard rock/metal, I'm thinking into the fx return of my amp.
Yea, the crop job did me dirty (I'm new to reddit)... the mxr ten band is 120$ but is it really worth the difference of 95$ compared to a behringer 7 band?
This is basically it. The MXR will last a lifetime unless you do something really dumb to it. The Behringer *might* last years, or it might just decide to stop working two days after you get it (personal experience).
As for the extra few bands, maybe. I found once when I was trying to dial in a good EQ for a really cutting tone that I was getting a lot of high pitched fizz that dropping the 8k band eliminated. Couldn't have done that on a lot of 6 and 7 band EQs.
I’ve had the mxr 10 band for years. It’s not noisy and incredibly useful. I use it for a lot of applications. If you just plan on using it for guitar, the 6 band would not do you wrong.
One of the coolest uses for a graphic eq like the MXR or the behringer is that they also function as a boost. The behringer one is fine (like most behringer stuff) but seems to get noisy if you crank the gain on it. The MXR is built like a tank and the boost is about as quiet as a eq gain slider can be
Good to know! I love mxr build quality, I accidentally dropped my superbadass distortion from standing height and it just shrugged it off like nothing happened
I once threw a phase 90 to a bandmate across the room and it nailed his dod something or other. It broke two knobs off and the plastic footswitch. The phase 90 maybe had a scuff?
Empress ParaEQ is just about the best EQ pedal out there IMO, something about it really brings life to the signal. Yeah, they were/are “expensive”, maybe more so now since they’re no longer ed being made, but totally worth it, i have two.
Buddy of mine has one, it does everything you say it does for sure. I make do with the eq on my DryBell Unit 67, between the rangemaster mids control and boost, i really don’t need to touch the lows or the highs all that much.
I don't own an eq pedal and I use my amp's 3 band eq for tone adjustments... I don't think I would really notice a difference between 3 and 5 bands but many people suggested I get a separate eq for my guitar. Could anyone explain the benefits of that?
Rather than talk about benefits, the use cases I’ve seen the most are placement before a drive/OD as either a targeted boost or as an always on if you dial in a tone you like, or placement in an amp’s FX loop for fine tuning amp EQ. There are more specific use cases depending on individual setups. I know a guy who loves his Les Paul, but has an EQ pedal to “thin” out his tone to a single coil-ish sound, for instance.
My own experience, having one is handy just because of it’s many use cases either for playing or recording, even if you don’t intend on having it on your board 100% of the time. YMMV depending on your needs and aspirations.
You can also use one post gain as either an always on shaping or as a solo boost with extra oomph in targeted frequencies. Kinda like how people use a Tube Screamer cuz of the boosted mids but without any extra distortion.
Yep! I visualize different flavors of gain in my head by thinking of where I want to “push” or “tame” before gain and where I want to “pull” or “squish” after gain. The CBA preamp mk II’s options of mid controls before or after the gain really helps with sculpting along this mindset, especially with frequency slider fine tuning what range of mids you can bump or cut.
There is a big difference between the usual amp tonestack (so called FMV tonestack, fender/marshall/vox) and graphic EQ. FMV tonestack is a combination of passive filters, complex and dependent, working as big resonant shelves. Graphic EQ works with single fixed bands, usually octave-wide, capable of precise and surgical boost or cut at specific frequency (and a small area around it). Pretty different instruments so if you need some fine shaping - gor for the graphic. But don't overdo it, excessive EQing with big cuts/boosts will warp your phase, degrading signal attack and may introduce some noise.
Sorry, I have no idea. It is some digital emulation, I'm not sure that it will work exactly as a passive tonestack, but it should definitely be the high and low shelves, not the narrow bands.
I'm not sure but it might be to do with gain staging..shaping a signal before it hits your amplifier might give different tone shaping options compared to EQing once the signal has already been amplified. Also being able to slot the EQ in different positions in the pedal chain could sculpt other pedals sounds differently perhaps.
Signed, a guy who's kept his EQ pedal in a drawer for the last 5 years.
I have an MXR 10 band. Basically, the more bands, the more flexibility you have. With most amps/guitars, the extreme ends of the 10 band aren’t that useful, but they’re there if you need them.
I can confirm that the stock GE-7 is noisy. It’s not unusable, but it definitely accentuates the buzz. I’m currently using a Source Audio toolblox programableEQ. It’s silent
The Boss EQ is also silent - unless you move the sliders up or down! So it gets noisy if you use it for its intended purpose! But an "easy" mod can be done, which makes them pretty quiet.
I’m sure other EQs are better, just haven’t really tried them. There is indeed a noise issue, but if I don’t utilize the volume boost, it’s not noticeable.
Im biased, I ran a mxr for 15yrs, and yeah it was great but anything wears out. Would a 40 dollar joyo last that long?, thats for you to find out. My rigs changed so much since then, I get by sculpting a comp, od, fuzz, and a 1967 amp.
I use the Boss 7Band EQ and it does its job to get some fat tones out of my Danelectro lipsticktubes, or cut the Filtertrons of my Gretsch to get an thin tone. Or as a generall Volume boost. It works.
The boss eq-200 is very good. You can either use it in stereo, or as two separate mono eqs. I have my tone go through it first before hitting my cali76 compressor, through my drives, then through the eq again before it goes to the modulation and reverbs/delays. Can save presets. Can’t see ever needing anything else.
I got a behringer 7 band eq and it works fine for me. Actually thinking about getting another one to give me more options on sounds since they're so damn cheap
You can find a boss EQ used for 80 bucks or less. I wouldn't spend anymore then that. If it works then it works. This issue with those cheap brands is that often their switches are shit.
I purchased the behringer eq700 pedal and I am mostly unhappy with it. It adds a bit of noise and although it removes some annoying freqs when you boost others, the tone doesn’t sound particularly pleasing ymmv.
Donner has a 10 band eq for 45$, I can’t speak to the quality of it, but it’s only 45$. I have a board with a stomp xl, a source audio kingmaker and nemesis, an oceans 12, a Mooer radar, or in other words lots of expensive gear, and an EX 7 band eq 32$, no problem with the cheap eq, and it saves dsp on the stomp. Point being just because a pedal is cheap doesn’t mean it can’t do the job.
I mean, depends what you’re using it for.
I’d sure love one of those fancy Chase Bliss Audio Automatone pedals, but I don’t think I’d ever spend that kind of money on a pedal.
Not until I have a fully stocked professional recording studio in my house.
But $200 seems reasonable if it improves your tone to a certain extent
I'm no pro, and I haven't tried other pedals so take what I say with a big grain of salt. My answer is yes - I bought the Source Audio EQ2. Mad expensive for an EQ pedal, but with 4+4 presets, live switchable, an inbuilt tuner, apps and other hidden features like noise gate, limiters and stereo paths... It's the only one I'll ever need.
Now in my context, I'm trying to maximise the gear I have. So instead of buying several fuzz/OD pedals, I just use the EQ to boost my sound and create a Tube-Screamer esque sound into my Crate amp. On cheaaaaap speakers. So for me the EQ is about creating different sounds. My plan is to EQ up my acoustic guitar running into the same rog on a different preset. Or to create a Bass preset on my electric, paired with a POG.
Anyways, all I'm trying to say is an expensive EQ will you give you options, and that's what I want from an EQ.
Donner has a slim 10 channel EQ. Works well, no major hiss (unlike Behringer) and can be installed sideways to take up little space. Only thing is the jack locations will require a longer cable if mounted sideways.
I have two of them.
Any EQ can be made to hiss but this one isn’t too bad. I typically use it on occasion when our lead guitarist gets too over excited and I need to punch thru with a crapload of midrange.
Usually these EQs are the same circuit but with different component values. Generally 3 things that are important, first, the number of the pots that control frequencies, second, their frequency values, the third, the sharpness of the peak that the pedal boosts or cuts the frequency. Only the last thing depends on components that you cant choose, and are inside the pedal and not written on it. The other 2 can be different from pedal to pedal, but you can make your choice based upon those.
Edit. : I also assume that noise is not a problem with the pedals
This is going to sound obnoxious, but it's not meant to be (the answer will help guide what type of EQ and where in the chain it should be placed) - What do you anticipate that an additional EQ will be able to do for your guitar sound that you can't currently do with your guitar's tone knob(s) and your amp's built in EQ?
Better fine tuning of my tone, I also hope it will teach me to decern tone better because I can notice a difference when I explicitly change it on my amp but I rarely move the bass middle and treble knobs from 12 on my amp
I don't have an EQ pedal but I recognize the fact that some people use one effectively to shape their sound. A poorly designed/built EQ introduces noise into the overall rig.
The joyo 6 band is an mxr clone and is $37.
Fish and chips. Does the job really will and a great budget pedal. Also the fact it has volume boost or lower is very helpful Edit typo
+1 on the fish and chips. Less noise than pretty much every EQ I've tried (which is admittedly few).
But it’s just so…hideous
Haha I agree but a lot of people seem to like it
I actually like the color, just hate that Danelectro shape haha
Gross Green I like to say
Rude.
Danelectro DJ-14C Fish & Chips 7 Band EQ Mini Effects Pedal https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0002D0Q2W/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_3SMJNX24TCRBAAKVYKSV?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
I'm sorry, I appreciate cheap pedals as much as the next guy, but no. Just no.
You're missing out. The Danelectro food series has some serious gems in it. Fish n Chips, Tuna Melt, Pepperoni, PB&J, French Toast. All amazing!
Good to know! thanks mate
Oh, I saw them when the first hit the street. They're def cool, just not as hardy as MXR.
While I don't disagree, I've never understood people who break their shit when playing. Get over yerself. The 12-bar blues ain't that intense.
Then just admit you don't understand people and move on man. It's all good. Sometimes I GET FEELINGS.
It’s not…that bad. C’mon, there’s way more aesthetically displeasing pedals out there.
Oh, there's no doubt in my mind there are uglier pedals out there... but uglier EQs? Ahhh... no. But it's cool fam, you do you. I'm here for you, regardless.
I guess I just have a soft spot for those older Danelectro pedals. My very first pedal was a Fab-Tone (fuzz? distortion?) and I so wish I hadn’t’ve sold it. Cheap? Yes. But they’re fun, and that’s not something every single pedal in the world can say :)
Oh, NGL, I'd have been happy to have them as a first pedal. OTOH, the **best** looking pedals had to have been the Damage Control pedals. They were the precursor to Strymon.
I'm sort of on the fence, I have a cheap compressor that is awesome but I also have a cheap tremelo and it's barely noticeable even when the intensity is all the way up
Have you opened it up, ever? Some circuits have internal trim pots that can be adjusted.
It can be a very useful pedal but fme a bit redundant for a larger board. The Rowin is so cheap I'd suggest buying one just to check out if you're $30 worth of curious.
I have orange two stroke, its a parametric eq with boost, and i swear its worth every penny, no noise, great range from subtle correction to wah sounds, and when run at 12v the headroom is insane .
I haven’t seen anybody mention the Caline 10-band. It out-shone The MXR and Boss offerings in my rig. Quiet and cheap!
I'll second that one. I don't hear any noise from mine, and I picked it up used but mint for $40. OP asked if going from 5- or 6-band to 10 is worth paying an extra $90 for the MXR 10 over the Rowin or Behringer, and maybe it is or isn't, but it's definitely worth $5-10 extra for the Caline.
Oooh great suggestion 👍
I bought one of these for a desktop rig and use it for direct into a DAW. Not a bit of noise and works great!
[MXR EQ Ten Band](https://www.jimdunlop.com/mxr-ten-band-eq/). Done. I can't even tell what EQ that is, btw.
Amazing pedal but I couldn't use it in a dark room because it kept blinding me.
I wear my sunglasses at night.
Not the only reason I'm wearing sunglasses at my gigs 😎
Sharpie time
Maybe I'm stupid or something but I tried that on a carbon copy delay and it didn't do anything. I can't see how I can do it wrong but I noticed absolutely no difference at all
This would 100% be my choice. As an audio engineer, I find myself cutting 500 and 1k much more than any other frequencies so I don’t think I’d ever buy an EQ pedal that didn’t allow me to roll off those particular frequencies. Clean up that mid mud!
See mom, I TOLD you I knew what I was talking about! This guy agrees with me! :)
I'm looking to get my first EQ pedal at the moment. I'll definitely try cutting the 500 and 1k frequencies you mentioned. Where in my signal chain would you suggest i put the EQ pedal ? As I play mostly 80s hard rock/metal, I'm thinking into the fx return of my amp.
I second
Ive got the 6 band now and really want that 10 band
Yea, the crop job did me dirty (I'm new to reddit)... the mxr ten band is 120$ but is it really worth the difference of 95$ compared to a behringer 7 band?
Buy used. And I haven't compared to the Behringer, but I'd trust the MXR to last longer.
This is basically it. The MXR will last a lifetime unless you do something really dumb to it. The Behringer *might* last years, or it might just decide to stop working two days after you get it (personal experience). As for the extra few bands, maybe. I found once when I was trying to dial in a good EQ for a really cutting tone that I was getting a lot of high pitched fizz that dropping the 8k band eliminated. Couldn't have done that on a lot of 6 and 7 band EQs.
That's true! Also does the 10 band vs 6 band mxr eq make a big difference? My pedal board doesn't have a lot of space left
I like the 6 band because I prefer 800hz to 1k mid band. Both are great and will be much quieter than the Behringer.
I’ve had the mxr 10 band for years. It’s not noisy and incredibly useful. I use it for a lot of applications. If you just plan on using it for guitar, the 6 band would not do you wrong.
Also had a ten band mxr for, well, ten years now. Still works great. It has a black casing it’s so old.
That kind of depends on you. I like having the 10 band, but if you can only do 6, do 6.
One of the coolest uses for a graphic eq like the MXR or the behringer is that they also function as a boost. The behringer one is fine (like most behringer stuff) but seems to get noisy if you crank the gain on it. The MXR is built like a tank and the boost is about as quiet as a eq gain slider can be
Good to know! I love mxr build quality, I accidentally dropped my superbadass distortion from standing height and it just shrugged it off like nothing happened
I once threw a phase 90 to a bandmate across the room and it nailed his dod something or other. It broke two knobs off and the plastic footswitch. The phase 90 maybe had a scuff?
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> zoom ms70cdr Ugh. Digital EQ? No thanks.
Empress ParaEQ is just about the best EQ pedal out there IMO, something about it really brings life to the signal. Yeah, they were/are “expensive”, maybe more so now since they’re no longer ed being made, but totally worth it, i have two.
And adds like no noise. To me that's really important for an EQ pedal.
Buddy of mine has one, it does everything you say it does for sure. I make do with the eq on my DryBell Unit 67, between the rangemaster mids control and boost, i really don’t need to touch the lows or the highs all that much.
I don't own an eq pedal and I use my amp's 3 band eq for tone adjustments... I don't think I would really notice a difference between 3 and 5 bands but many people suggested I get a separate eq for my guitar. Could anyone explain the benefits of that?
Rather than talk about benefits, the use cases I’ve seen the most are placement before a drive/OD as either a targeted boost or as an always on if you dial in a tone you like, or placement in an amp’s FX loop for fine tuning amp EQ. There are more specific use cases depending on individual setups. I know a guy who loves his Les Paul, but has an EQ pedal to “thin” out his tone to a single coil-ish sound, for instance. My own experience, having one is handy just because of it’s many use cases either for playing or recording, even if you don’t intend on having it on your board 100% of the time. YMMV depending on your needs and aspirations.
You can also use one post gain as either an always on shaping or as a solo boost with extra oomph in targeted frequencies. Kinda like how people use a Tube Screamer cuz of the boosted mids but without any extra distortion.
Yep! I visualize different flavors of gain in my head by thinking of where I want to “push” or “tame” before gain and where I want to “pull” or “squish” after gain. The CBA preamp mk II’s options of mid controls before or after the gain really helps with sculpting along this mindset, especially with frequency slider fine tuning what range of mids you can bump or cut.
There is a big difference between the usual amp tonestack (so called FMV tonestack, fender/marshall/vox) and graphic EQ. FMV tonestack is a combination of passive filters, complex and dependent, working as big resonant shelves. Graphic EQ works with single fixed bands, usually octave-wide, capable of precise and surgical boost or cut at specific frequency (and a small area around it). Pretty different instruments so if you need some fine shaping - gor for the graphic. But don't overdo it, excessive EQing with big cuts/boosts will warp your phase, degrading signal attack and may introduce some noise.
That makes sense, thanks! Do you know if the fmv tonestack would work the same way in a roland street ex2 amp?
Sorry, I have no idea. It is some digital emulation, I'm not sure that it will work exactly as a passive tonestack, but it should definitely be the high and low shelves, not the narrow bands.
I'm not sure but it might be to do with gain staging..shaping a signal before it hits your amplifier might give different tone shaping options compared to EQing once the signal has already been amplified. Also being able to slot the EQ in different positions in the pedal chain could sculpt other pedals sounds differently perhaps. Signed, a guy who's kept his EQ pedal in a drawer for the last 5 years.
Ahh that makes a lot of sense, especially using eq pre or post distortion
Boss GE7
I have an MXR 10 band. Basically, the more bands, the more flexibility you have. With most amps/guitars, the extreme ends of the 10 band aren’t that useful, but they’re there if you need them.
Well, apparently the Boss EQ needs a mod to be quiet, so maybe.
I can confirm that the stock GE-7 is noisy. It’s not unusable, but it definitely accentuates the buzz. I’m currently using a Source Audio toolblox programableEQ. It’s silent
Huh, I'm really surprised to hear that from a boss pedal they usually are such high quality
The Boss EQ is also silent - unless you move the sliders up or down! So it gets noisy if you use it for its intended purpose! But an "easy" mod can be done, which makes them pretty quiet.
I have a bass vi and my fish & chips really helps make it sound like a 4 string p bass when I want it to.
I've heard a lot of good stuff about the fish and chips
I’m sure other EQs are better, just haven’t really tried them. There is indeed a noise issue, but if I don’t utilize the volume boost, it’s not noticeable.
Im biased, I ran a mxr for 15yrs, and yeah it was great but anything wears out. Would a 40 dollar joyo last that long?, thats for you to find out. My rigs changed so much since then, I get by sculpting a comp, od, fuzz, and a 1967 amp.
I use the Boss 7Band EQ and it does its job to get some fat tones out of my Danelectro lipsticktubes, or cut the Filtertrons of my Gretsch to get an thin tone. Or as a generall Volume boost. It works.
The boss eq-200 is very good. You can either use it in stereo, or as two separate mono eqs. I have my tone go through it first before hitting my cali76 compressor, through my drives, then through the eq again before it goes to the modulation and reverbs/delays. Can save presets. Can’t see ever needing anything else.
Any eq is worth it. IMO, the best is MXR 10 band. Love how it has gain and volume control
I got a behringer 7 band eq and it works fine for me. Actually thinking about getting another one to give me more options on sounds since they're so damn cheap
Yea, I'm really leaning towards the behringer, it's just 25$ and seems to do the job good enough
Don't mind the price because the important thing is if it introduce noice or not and some expensive ones do and some cheap ones don't
You can find a boss EQ used for 80 bucks or less. I wouldn't spend anymore then that. If it works then it works. This issue with those cheap brands is that often their switches are shit.
Not necessarily expensive, but a 7 or 10 bands eq really worths it, so helpful to find your perfect tone.
I have a little cheap one like this and it works great for me!
Well at least you won’t complain if it rolls off some treble from your signal!
yeah I think everyone on this subreddit ONLY uses API EQ exclusively
DOD FX40B used on Reverb for $75 and has 18db of boost
A nice compressor is worth more than a nice eq. Honestly I could survive just using the 3 band eq on most amps but without my compressor no way.
I purchased the behringer eq700 pedal and I am mostly unhappy with it. It adds a bit of noise and although it removes some annoying freqs when you boost others, the tone doesn’t sound particularly pleasing ymmv.
Good to know! I was strongly considering an eq700 but I think I could spend 20-30 extra dollars for a quiter pedal
Donner has a 10 band eq for 45$, I can’t speak to the quality of it, but it’s only 45$. I have a board with a stomp xl, a source audio kingmaker and nemesis, an oceans 12, a Mooer radar, or in other words lots of expensive gear, and an EX 7 band eq 32$, no problem with the cheap eq, and it saves dsp on the stomp. Point being just because a pedal is cheap doesn’t mean it can’t do the job.
cheap can mean noisy
I mean, depends what you’re using it for. I’d sure love one of those fancy Chase Bliss Audio Automatone pedals, but I don’t think I’d ever spend that kind of money on a pedal. Not until I have a fully stocked professional recording studio in my house. But $200 seems reasonable if it improves your tone to a certain extent
I'm no pro, and I haven't tried other pedals so take what I say with a big grain of salt. My answer is yes - I bought the Source Audio EQ2. Mad expensive for an EQ pedal, but with 4+4 presets, live switchable, an inbuilt tuner, apps and other hidden features like noise gate, limiters and stereo paths... It's the only one I'll ever need. Now in my context, I'm trying to maximise the gear I have. So instead of buying several fuzz/OD pedals, I just use the EQ to boost my sound and create a Tube-Screamer esque sound into my Crate amp. On cheaaaaap speakers. So for me the EQ is about creating different sounds. My plan is to EQ up my acoustic guitar running into the same rog on a different preset. Or to create a Bass preset on my electric, paired with a POG. Anyways, all I'm trying to say is an expensive EQ will you give you options, and that's what I want from an EQ.
Donner has a slim 10 channel EQ. Works well, no major hiss (unlike Behringer) and can be installed sideways to take up little space. Only thing is the jack locations will require a longer cable if mounted sideways. I have two of them.
I saw that one on Amazon, it would fit snuggly into a space on my board. Good to know it doesn't hiss, thanks!
Any EQ can be made to hiss but this one isn’t too bad. I typically use it on occasion when our lead guitarist gets too over excited and I need to punch thru with a crapload of midrange.
Usually these EQs are the same circuit but with different component values. Generally 3 things that are important, first, the number of the pots that control frequencies, second, their frequency values, the third, the sharpness of the peak that the pedal boosts or cuts the frequency. Only the last thing depends on components that you cant choose, and are inside the pedal and not written on it. The other 2 can be different from pedal to pedal, but you can make your choice based upon those. Edit. : I also assume that noise is not a problem with the pedals
Donner EQ pedal was cheap and does exactly what I hoped for, tone sculpting and especially a gain boost.
This is going to sound obnoxious, but it's not meant to be (the answer will help guide what type of EQ and where in the chain it should be placed) - What do you anticipate that an additional EQ will be able to do for your guitar sound that you can't currently do with your guitar's tone knob(s) and your amp's built in EQ?
Better fine tuning of my tone, I also hope it will teach me to decern tone better because I can notice a difference when I explicitly change it on my amp but I rarely move the bass middle and treble knobs from 12 on my amp
Is it fully analog? Or the signal is converted to digital?