Boutique is beautiful.
Right there. That’s the reason we buy gear. Sure, we do a fairly decent job of making up some crazy ideas of ‘tone’, and that you need to ‘sound good’ while playing music; but in the end, we buy gear because finish jobs like this one make us feel special.
;) Of course, if you’re still gonna get hung up on the whole ‘tone’ thing, this pedal is one of the best EQ’s that I’ve tried. (‘EQ’ is fun to type. No seriously. Try it.) It’s not a boost, just an EQ. Leaves your tone completely alone until you engage the knobs. There’s bass and treble, and then a mids control, with a separate control over the frequency that the mids control adjusts. Very cool. And then a switch to turn the frequency control on or off. And lastly, there is a switch to engage true bypass, or engage a buffer. And the buffer is very natural sounding, as is the overall pedal. For just a simple EQ, with the bonus of having a great buffer should you so desire, this pedal may just be a great find.
And the demo:
No, that’s not a mistake. With a pedal this gorgeous, a picture is all the demo you need.
But in all seriousness, with the compression on youtube, a video demo wouldn’t do this natural and subtle-sounding pedal enough justice. Plus, I couldn’t figure out how to make an EQ pedal unboring, without making it look like a joke along the lines of my FS5L demo. However…the more I look at that picture, the more I think that this might be the greatest demo I have ever done. :)
And for those of you who have read a bit of this blog, you may have gathered that I am not a buffer or EQ guy. And this would be correct. I saw this pedal, and bought it immediately. Only after I got it home and opened it did I remember, ‘Oh ya! I don’t use EQ pedals!’ Such is the sickness.
Splendid.
Karl.
Guitar for Worship 