Boss - GE-7 Equalizer Review / Demo [Old amp]

[JSprayaEntertainment]

where the feedback loop video for this ?

[anecsey]

Your voice sounded weird in all your reviews. Like you were exhausted, tired, more like you were a fat man, or a long time smoker. Try to work out, do some swim to improve your breath. In the future, you will thank me.

[itsGoboboy]

@anecsey Actually I'm 6 foot 3 and 156 pounds. I lift every day to try and keep up with my football playing friends. What you are hearing is nervousness and poor microphone quality. :)

[anecsey]

@itsGoboboy

Amazing. By the way I bought yesterday this pedal, after watching some popular rigs on guitar geek and watching your videos. The result its awesome.

The tone I was looking for was a grunge altern metal guitar, with good low cleans and mid low gain distorsion. My setup its a Peavey VTM 120 head, a 2x12" cabinet, a Gibson Firebird clone made by me and this effects: Morley Wah, Triangle Big Muff, Ibanez Chorus and now the boss bass eq. The difference is I choosed the Bass EQ.

[itsGoboboy]

@anecsey Interesting, I suppose the bass EQ has lower frequencies.

[andrewmoran357]

@anecsey - you ingnorant prick - id love to grab your scrawney little throat and rag you all over the town -when a fella goes to the trouble of doing a video -keep your brave keyboard warrior tactics to yourself - loser

[anecsey]

@andrewmoran357 Hahaha do you have a complex with being strong and punching other people? Im 7 years experienced full contact fighter in heavyweight category. I would love to see you coming. By the way, I am from Argentina (dont know where you come from) but here in Sudamerica, you have to walk long road to open your mouth and yelling about fighting. Nice to know, youre safe and far away from me.

An advice: try to not come to Argentina, Brazil or Mexico, cause you will be kicked as fuck.

[andrewmoran357]

@anecsey Fuck off gringo - we the British should have bombed your mainland in 1982 when we kicked your greasy ass's - may have knocked some sense into your thick head - oh and Brazilians and Mexicans are not mouthy fuckers like you -they both hate you ugly argentinians with your wiry greasy hair and tiny dick's - especially yours - heavyweight are you too much dinner you fat git -id take all the more pleasure in kicking your tiny balls - and proving what a fat useless fuck you are - twat

[andrewmoran357]

@anecsey oh and "kicked as fuck " is not even English - now run along and go back to playing with your tiny penis - nobhead

[ccbbom]

HEY GUYS, iS THAT GOOD FOR US TO BUY, OR CHOOSE ANOTHER Equalizer of orther brands ????

[thejonahdoan]

Is that accent north dakota? I'm getting fargo flashbacks.

[itsGoboboy]

@thejonahdoan Minnesotan actually.

[thejonahdoan]

@itsGoboboy damn i was preaty close

[posiedonpowertrio]

Is this pedal noisy?

[Fleex454]

I don't know much about guitar pedals, if anyone could offer some insight, it'd be appreciated. I play in a 3 piece band, guitar, bass, drums. When i'm playing chords everything is loud enough, but when I solo, the guitar volume drops significantly and i'm over powered by bass and drums. Would this pedal allow me to get some extra "volume"? If that makes any sense?

[bleedingfly]

Yeah dude, run it after your distortion/overdrive (if you use them), or through your effects loop if you use amp gain. If you want a lead boost push up sliders 200 and 400 just a little, you don't much. You shouldn't need to adjust the volume any. I use the MXR 6 band eq and this boss eq. The Boss gives me a better lead tone, but the mxr gives a better metal rhythm tone. So if you want one for leads then go with Boss. Happy shopping! Peace! \m/_

[cArdBOardBoXeSaReFUn]

Whatever you do with the GE-7 is going to affect both your chords and your leads in the exact same way. This pedal is a tone-shaping effect (which you will definitely want anyway, this is a GREAT way to sort of dial in and own your own tone) but what you are looking for is a compressor. Buy a good, transparent compressor and stick it before your OD/distortion pedal (if you have one). That will bring out your leads. The compression I have is a MXR Super Comp, and it works pretty well for me.

[gadjox]

@Fleex454 you need a compressor pedal for this

it'll make the chords quieter and you'll be able to play at a louder and more even level

[PSUDONYMOUS]

get the boss CS3 duke! trust.

[Phailure365]

@Fleex454 your problem is not enugh mids dude. crank the midrange

[serdar213]

@Fleex454 This eq pedal is for your need. You can boost and adjust your soloing tone. Compressor pedal is for another use...

[deathmetallica2nd]

what is the order of puttin the ge-7 in the chain of analogs?

[itsGoboboy]

I dont know what you mean

[TheHorrorInside]

set it next to your distortion pedals, and compressors : )

[halopro9995]

he means this the correct way is like this

Amp>wahwah.metal zome/core>EQUALIZER>anything else> guitar

[waynegacy666]

I would EQ the last... I mean, If you first EQ and then you put and OD, the OD changes your EQ... So I'd do this:

Drive-MOD effects-Reverb-Compression-EQ

[itsGoboboy]

You could do that, there is no "right" place to put the eq pedal, you put it where you need it to mod your sound. I put it at the very end of my chain, I dont really have any reverb or delay pedals but a lot of distortion and modulation.

[waynegacy666]

Yes, there is no right place, but if you EQ and then you place a Reverb, your Reverb is modifying the previous EQ. It depends on what you want to control, if you focus con compression you'd use compression at the end of the chain.

[peyoteugly]

@waynegacy666

agreed. i put my eq after my fuzz and boost pedals. running fuzz through the eq is amazing. really beefs up the sound.

[KoralieMegan]

@waynegacy666 try eq in loop in the back of your amp.

[dacop13]

An EQ is the best investment you could make IMO. It can control/change your whole sound.

[bruisedorange6]

I have a pretty flat, sterile clean channel on my bugera 6262

I am planning on buying a strat and would like to not have to purchase a new head to get a good clean tone..

Could this thing warm up my cleans a little??

Any feedback appreciated, thanks =)

[itsGoboboy]

It depends, if your amp is muddy you should get a treble booster, this thing could do that, but a treb booster is made for that. Or you could get a keeley clean boost. But I really dont know what you are looking for here.

[Michaelfender]

Doesn't matter too much. "True-bypass" makes no difference.

[itsGoboboy]

It doesn't make too much of a difference, you only have to worry about it if you have a large pedal board.

[Boxmusik]

one hunderd two hunderd...lol

[davidson2354]

is it worth to play with distortion?

[guitarman9202]

I really like it with distortion! Gives a really nice boost! You just have to have the right settings!

[Joshelion]

Is it good to switch the equilizer on for a solo?

[guitarman9202]

Yes you can use it like a sound boosdt you know :P It's all about the settings really!

[dacop13]

Absolutly. Any EQ will boost and add bite to your distortion. Play with the settings a bit and find your spot. I used to use an EQ on an overdriven Marshall 100w head. Without the EQ, it was flatter.

[sammyn13]

i've heard the term "True bypass" before?

can u explain it to me?

[Robtarded]

look it up prick

[Fortr0y]

its where no matter if the pedal has power or not your signal goes through

an example is the line 6 dl 4

which is not worth buying if you treat pedals roughly

i discovered that today :/

[jxd549]

yeh the dl4 is a great pedal but line 6 dont make things like boss. they break easy!

[lovepuremetal5]

i think it means that it doesn't affect the guitar tone when it's off.

[suihkubad]

When a pedal with no true bybass is turned off in your pedalboard, it still eats your clean signal and when you have many of no truebybass pedals your guitars clean tone will sound like shit.

[bassandguitargreg]

meaning whenever it's not on it won't affect your guitars tone. After you run your guitar through a bunch of pedals, you'll start to lose tone. Boss pedals are buffered bypass, so they will mess with the tone a tiny bit, but not enough for you to notice

[BeTheDeathOfMe]

@sammyn13

It meand that when the pedal is turned off, it has no effect on the signal.

[halopro9995]

This is my set up

Ds-2.>>>>GE-7>>>>ml-2>>>>cRY BABY WAh....sorry about that>>>>>epiphone SG....thru a fender g-dec 30 amp 

I get a really hight frequency when i play on my clean channel with the eq

HELP

[fransdinkelmann]

put the wah in te front of your signal chain, this will give it a more breathy effect.

[DannyVss]

what do people think would be better this or a behriner rack equalizer?

because the behriner is cheaper and has much more settings.

[testedpuddle]

this definatly

[DannyVss]

how so...?

[testedpuddle]

because with this  you have the option to use it as a boost also you can turn it on quicker than the rack and its smaller but thats your choice

[halopro9995]

I play an epiphone SG on a fender gdec....and when i use my eq pedal on my clean channel without any distortion it has a really high frequency any help?

[MTuck21]

there are somethings i play that i need a strat sound out of my les paul is this pedal capable of changing the sound that much. great video. good demo.

[nikitacawton]

thanks for this...

[thejack1212]

did u say humbucker on a single strat

dont u mean single coil

[itsGoboboy]

No, my guitar is a strat and I moded it so i have two single coils and my bridge pickup is a humbucker that is made small so it fits a in a coil's spot

[SomeShows]

So you can either buy this 7 band overpriced turd of a pedal or you can go to radioshack and get a dual 15 band stereo rackmount EQ for 75 bucks instead. I'd go with the latter, you'd be pretty stupid not to.

[jcallseven]

boss pedals do not have true bypass

[itsGoboboy]

Yes I'm sure we have all seen the corrections that I made to both my demos, if you can read.

[steviexILL]

rofl blow your nose

[GuitaristsPurch]

lmao!!

[kotekotekitty]

Also it can give you a boost in noise level by 15DB or a cut by 15 DB

[kotekotekitty]

IF you know how to work an EQ then this pedal can help you get a more precise tone or let you use 2 different tones in one song like a light sound and then a really heavy sound or the other way round ect.. Personally i start by adjusting the mid to where i want it 1st then the treble then the bass

[Jardweirdo]

is mxr eq better?

[itsGoboboy]

Thats all a matter of opinion, they are just eqs but there is a mxr 10 band witch is only 3 bands better than this. And I think the mxr has a true bypass.

[joesmuse]

is this pedal quite noisey?

[JayLacelle]

not unless you crank the level all the way up

[FatsOmak]

Floatin' on a puddle of Tapioca Puddin'

[tuckisgod]

wht would i gain from buying this pedel why would i need it i mean wht does it really do

plz reply

[ozzy578]

Is it that hard? It's an EQ. You'd use it if you needed/wanted to change your EQ throughout a song. Or you can set it so it boosts for a solo.

EQ basically means Bass, mids, highs etc.

[MawBTS]

that's amazing. when you turn the band all the way to -15 it's like you can hear a hole in the sound.

[itsGoboboy]

This pedal does not have a true bypass, but a true bypass is when the pedal can run the signal strait through without sucking any tone out. It doesnt really matter that much bu thats what it does.

[nielsnielsniels]

What is your floor made of, crackers?

[Gibonz]

I thought it was carpet...

[crismoraes99]

Yeah, a floor made of Cream Crackers... Staring at it makes me hungry.

[SimmyDOTuk]

rice biscuits dude

[tnic469]

I hear a northerner! Maybe Minnesota, Michigan, or maybe Wisconsin? Oh that's just sooper sounding, oh golly I knew! Vary Buddy Hally! Haha just giving you a hard time! Nice video big guy!

[itsGoboboy]

ya i am a northerner a'. didnt vote for jhon mccain and Shara tho. just didnt do it for me ya know? lol

thanks a bunch

[AdRiAnHeReTiC]

nice demo dude

[jo4koc]

thanks, is a great demo.

[ChaosRiddenReaper]

btw i play thru emg active pickups 81/60

[ChaosRiddenReaper]

i have a BIG problem with feedback, i play metal thru a 50w Randall tube amp, high distortion, but when i palm mute i still hear the feedback, its terrible when i let my hand off the strings it gets so loud, with one of theese can u cut out all that screaming feedback???

im new to pedals/equipment, im still learning

please help

[TheFlamingBarrel]

you should try out some noise gate/suppression pedals for that. Check out the boss ns-1 that will cut your tone off when youre not playing, even at high vol. also u can set it to limit the highs of ur tone, which can kill ur tone but can be useful if ur careful about setting it. Then it can be used just to take unnecessary high freq noises out

[xxRockst4r]

Ns-2 at least

[juan909s]

im not an effects guy, but im wondering if i can use this with just a non tube amp. does any one know?

[itsGoboboy]

I didnt demo these pedals with a tube amp

you dont need a tube amp to yse efeects

[juan909s]

heres another question regarding the effect. Can i plug in my guitar to this pedal, this pedal directly into a mac using garage band and get its tone and the tones i like???

[itsGoboboy]

No, you cant just plug a pedal into your computer but if you have a digitech pedal some of them come with a mixer out put, then you plug your guitar into the pedal and the pedal into the mixer inturn going to your computer. Most people just use their pedals and then mic their amps. the mixer output is a short cut to that. If you want to record something with garage band you need a mixer and a mic. You need a mixer to sound pro but if you just recording, just use a mike to your computer..

[CandBvids]

yes, you can. i do so often. Radioshack sells a cheap thing (cant remeber the name) that you put on the end of your cable and turns it into a jack that can fit into the microphone in slot on your mac

[itsGoboboy]

In that case then yes you can, but there is no on-board thing from the pedal itself that lets you do that.

[ivrz]

thanks. I'll try a boss ns

[ivrz]

Good review, thanks. Can you remove the strat singlecoil buzz with this eq?

[BoburtoJr123]

i think a noisegate would help

[geeburr]

i dont think so, but if u really wanna cut it out, the boss NS-1 will do the job (the noise suppressor). its an awesome pedal

[ivrz]

thanks geeburr, i have one on order expecting it any day now, saw the reviews, looks like just what I need

[DJ8137219]

does this pedal sound good with the boss distortion ds1?

please reply

[itsGoboboy]

yes in fact thats the pedal i use it with to add a lower eq to the distortion because it doesnt have very good eq

[petruccigod356]

Can someone please explain to me why anyone would need this if all amps have built in EQ?

[lern2swim]

This will give you much more detailed control of your tone and allow a much wider array of sounds

[Dehnaldinho]

Im thinking of getting one to use as a booster for my solos so my rhythm level stays the same so the solo just cuts through everything else.

[RilloTip]

Excellent Review!! You really know what your talking about and this helped me alot!

[MustaineMan17]

so if i was to combine this with a MT-2 would it make the MT-2 a little more tight and or loose when needed and make a big difference

[rasputinvanclitt]

This was pretty helpful. I had no idea how that pedal worked. One more question though, do you think this will help cut down on feedback and add sustain to my distortion?

[itsGoboboy]

You can boost your tone or cut it with the level control. It works pretty good, but it only does so much. So ya it could reduce feedback not so much sustain though.

[TheEnd296]

can this go metal?

[itsGoboboy]

i dont quite understand what you are saying, are you referring to when i said "you kind of given an overdriven sound" because this is not a distortion pedal in any way i was just saying it sounded like it. this pedal is good when stacked up with distortion pedals tho to control the tone, it helps my out-of-control ds-1 when it comes to eqs

[ginonater]

i like the riff at 6:29

nice review