Danelectro Fish and Chips EQ? errrr I mean Boss?

The Dano EQ is everybit as good as the Boss (and just as durable). But your sweet wife has already purchased the Boss and you are happy with it. Keep the Boss and make her happy. :D

The 1 Spot AC adaptor is great and will power 5 pedals. You can get an extension to power 5 more. I personally hate spending money on batteries. Plus batteries seem to go dead at the worst time like in the middle of a gig.

Some cool settings for a EQ pedal.

Scooped mids- your sliders will look exactly like the letter "V". You boost the lows and highs and cut the mids. This will give you that classic Marshall tone.

Boosted mids- just the opposite of the scooped mids, your sliders will look like an arrowhead "^". This is a great setting if you want to use your EQ pedal as a boost for lead guitar. This tone will cut through any mix.

Up & Down- Push each alternating slider to either Max or Min. So from left to right you will have Max Min Max Min Max Min Max. With an overdrive pedal you will sound exactly like ZZ Top on Tush, try and see.

Huge Bottom- Push left slider way up, slide next slider about half down (from center), third slider in middle, fourth slightly boosted, fifth in middle, sixth slightly cut, seventh (far right) slightly boosted. This is a good setting for a great crunch rhythm guitar tone. Very Marshall, think AC/DC.

When the sliders are in the middle you are neither boosting or cutting a frequency. Same with the Volume slider.

Some use the EQ for a solo boost. Set volume high on the pedal and turn on when you want a boost.

Some do exactly the opposite. They turn their amp up real loud and get their lead guitar tone. Then they get a good rhythm tone with the EQ pedal but cut volume (on the pedal) to bring the volume down. When it comes time to solo they turn the EQ off and play a solo with the loud amp settings.

Know you didn't ask for all that, but EQs are pretty fun and you can do a lot with them.

the Boss GE7 EQ pedal is an excellent pedal. Ive had mine for a few years. it has supported my sound in the studio, at gigs, and in jam sessions. never fails. the freq. levers are sensitive and the output can be set for a seamless change or an awesome lead boost.
keep the Boss.
negative comment= I dislike Danoelectro pedals. they feel cheap and the few I tried were noisy.
I know alot of players here like them. perhaps they have found something I didnt.
keep the GE7.

I have used power sup;liers and found most to be noisy.
I use batteries now, remembering to unplug the lead in when not playing.
my delay pedal, a battery eater, has a wall wart power supply.

Wes - Thanks for the tips. I was looking for a site on-line with recommended settings for different sounds and wasn't able to find any. I assume that when you talk about scooped or raised mids (^ or v) your are keeping the first and seventh at the middle? I trided both ways and the sound is very different. And yeah, the alternating setting does sound kind of like ZZ-top. Cool stuf.

Dogbite - thanks for the encouragement. I think I'll stick with it. I want her to feel like she is a part of this and it's nice to hear that I'm likely not losing anything over the Dano's.

OK, two questions:

1. Any other cool settigns?
2. This is my first pedal, so what next?

Thanks everyone!

I too like my Fish n Chips but there cant be that much of an advantage between any of them. You have a very sweet and kind wife to think of you hobby when shopping. I imagine yours is every bit as good if not better than the Dano.

Anyway.. Have you thought of a chorus pedal? I have a Digitech Digital Chorus. I love it. Almost sounds like a 12 string to me. HEH

I have been building my set of pedals .. The chorus is one of my favs. Also like my wah for some stuff.

Jim

I have tried the scooped mids on my GE7 and it sounded awful. maybe it's because I run tube amps and have a flabby overdrive grunge sound most of the time. the mids set low made that tone anemic.
by bringing up the mids slowly towards Zero from below I heard the tone fatten up.
I notch just above Zero on my mids now. I also like fatter bottoms so I raise the lows.
the highs are tweaked upwards until I can cut through the darkness I created.
this is so subjective to ones ear; I wont post my numbers as they'd be useless to you.
the ranges are more important here.

The Dano EQ is everybit as good as the Boss (and just as durable). But your sweet wife has already purchased the Boss and you are happy with it. Keep the Boss and make her happy.

oops! :oops: Imeant to quote wes!

Wise words!!!! 8)

And Wes if your using the EQ to shape your sound should your amp be set flat?

And Wes if your using the EQ to shape your sound should your amp be set flat?

Another good question.....

It depends on what you want to do. In general I recommend you set your amp as close to what you want as you can and use the EQ to fine tune it. Setting the amp to flat and using the EQ pedal for all EQ'ing tends to introduce a lot more noise, for reasons unknown to me.

Arjen is right again. :D

Yes, I always set my amp up as close as possible to the tone I like, then use the EQ to fine tune.

MrJonesey, on the scooped mids "V" or boosted mids "^" you push the 1st and 7th sliders to the very top on scooped, pull them to the bottom on the boosted mids. Your sliders will look just like the letter V (or inverted for the boosted mids).

But those are just suggestions. For instance, at low volumes the far left slider (bass) sounds great pushed all the way up. But at very loud volumes like a gig I usually pull it down a little. Sometimes I get a low frequency rumble. The nice thing about EQs is you can hear the tone as you adjust sliders. So I will pull it down where I still get great huge bottom end, but no howl or rumble from the amp. Specific speakers can handle bass differently, so you have to adjust for the gear you own. And some speakers can get extremely harsh and piercing with the far right slider pushed all the way up. So you might have to pull it down a little.

One thing I have discovered is that if you push the 1st slider up (bass), it is good to pull the 2nd slider down some. It gives you a "tighter" bass. And this is true across the frequencies. If you push up the 4th or center slider (mids), but pull the 3rd and 5th down very slightly you get a better mids tone. It will cut through better. So it is kind of good to isolate certain frequencies, hope you know what I mean.

But there is no right or wrong to these pedals. Doesn't matter what the sliders look like if you like the tone.

A good way to learn these pedals is put all sliders in the middle (neutral). Then push each slider up and down individually and listen to the effect it has on your tone. This will help you get the exact tones you are after. You will learn the pedal.

Have fun with the EQ, they are great. :D