What’s your ideal EQ?

[JamieJ]

If you could design your own active EQ pedal what bands would you choose and why would you choose those frequencies?

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

cant really beat the source audio EQ2. 10 fully-parametric bands. If I could design something comparable to that, I would--- really any multi-band parametric is ideal

 

[Feral Feline]

Talking 3-band?

Parametric EQ w/ Tailored Freqs Highs 16kHz max​

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Broughton
40–400Hz / 320–1kHz / 800–6kHz
40–400Hz / 200–2kHz / 1k–10kHz​

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BYOC
33–330Hz / 250–2.5kHz / 1k1– 11kHz​

Empress
35-500Hz / 250–5kHz / 1k–20k​

It's a big kettle-box of wormery...



FFFX PARA TROOPER CUSTOM EQ
Bass: 40 – 400Hz
Low Mid: 80 – 800Hz
High Mid: 250 – 2.5kHz
Treble: 550 – 5.5kHz

Maybe add Presence to the above. Maybe.


Depends on what I'd be doing with it. Is it to cut low-end rumble from my DB or is it to carve a niche in between the kick-drum and lefty keyboard-keys?


Got this info off a bass freq chart pic, re-translated by YHN:

Hz
60-80- Bottom dweller
80-100 boost for lows
200 Mud city, cut!
700-1K attack! Bizzay with all instruments sonEQs.
800 "tonality" knows nose
1k riddim kicks
2k5 stringy sounds and slappity
3k boost stringsound further
6k boost clarity


I like this chart — sorry, can't remember where I got it from for proper attribution.

 

[JamieJ]

Thanks @Feral Feline
I’m thinking of designing my own OD pedal with a 6 band active EQ section like the MXR. Six band EQ.

I was planning 150hz (bass), 700hz (lower mids), 1.1khz (upper mids), 2.2khz (lower treble), 5.5khz (upper treble) and then 8khz as presence.

 

[Passinwind]

If you could design your own active EQ pedal what bands would you choose and why would you choose those frequencies?

For what application? For my EQ pedals tuned for bass guitar the HPF affects 25-130Hz, bass peaks at ~40Hz and affects up to 325-ish, fixed mids are selectable for three peak frequencies, typically 400-700-1.2K-ish, resonant LPF for treble sweeps from 400-ish to 6K-8K-ish.

Why? Because I value having a lot of interactivity available, not just within the pedal but also between onboard preamp/pedal/amp EQ.

 

[JamieJ]

For what what application?

Guitar is my primary interest but I am alway happy to learn the ways of the lower frequencies!

 

[Passinwind]

Guitar is my primary interest but I am alway happy to learn the ways of the lower frequencies!

When I do the same pedal format for acoustic guitar I bump the bass peak up to 55 Hz or so and then measure a couple of primary midrange resonances with a parametric EQ, then change the switched frequencies to accommodate that information. I haven't done one specifically for electric guitar yet, but I'd probably take a similar tack. The variable resonance LPF would probably work great for post-distortion EQ, maybe just by itself even. And since my builds are mostly modular it'd be pretty easy to do it that way.