FX40B Equilizer

My favorite artist or music i play on guitar is Metallica and Pantera.This pedal definatly helps me get closer to there sound.To get the best sound out of pedal you will want to run it first in your pedal chain or if you use your amps distortion you should use an effects loop jack if your amp has it.It's not a noisy pedal as you can adjust the settings if it gets noisy and even help unwanted noise from your other effects.Its a 7 band EQ so it gives you the options of really digging into the low's mids' and high's .I use it with a Jackson DK2 with seymour duncan distortion humbucker and a fender champion 110 most of the time .I also like to use it and i can have two different tones by turning it on or off.You can tell such a differnce with it off.You get so much more volume and tone with it on.It's the first pedal coming from my amp in my chain then it;s ditortion,chorus.If you dont have a EQ stompbox you really need one.I will give it a nine just because i dont want to say the best in the world,but it's right there to me.

This thing is very reliabile.It's not made of cheap plastic it's all metal and very tough.The pedal is like 10  years old i think and all the knobs are still there and works 100% correct.I dont recommend throwing it against walls or doing elbow drops on it (but it could probably take it.I would without question use this pedal for a gig,one thing though it will eat a 9volt battery quick!!!!!!!!!!!!! so you have to get an adapter with this pedal.

The pedal takes a bit of fooling around to get used to.It all depends on what sound you want.I downloaded a manual for it online and it had 2 preset's one for big fat distortion tone and one for a blues tone.I used the heavy tone but you can adjust it to fit anyway you play.

I dont deal with customer support .Whats the point? Just buy a new one or forget it.It would cost what you payed for it to ship back and forth and pay for work.

My overall rating for this would be you cant live without it as a musician.This improves your sound so much its insane.This pedal isnt just for one style its for everything.Just think about how much better a home stereo  is with a seperate equilzer.Even if you use a multi effect pedal the eq on it is nothing compared to a stompbox were you have so much more control.If something happened to this pedal i would have to buy one again .I bought this pedal on ebay and they go pretty cheap.I have been buying almost all my gear on ebay latley.I currently have a Fender stratocaster ,Jackson DK2 ,Fender 110 champion ,Crate G130C head and two 4 12; cabinets,,dod Eq, IBANEZ DISTORTION,IBANEZ SUPER CHORUS ,BEHRINGER CHORUS (IF I WERE YOU I WOULDNT WASTE MONEY ON BEHRINGER PRODUCTS THERE PRETTY CHEAP SOUNDING PEDALS).