10-Band Graphic EQ

I play an "EVH Wolfgang"(top of the line model) and play through a modified "Carvin XV100" tube amp with a "Celestion Vintage 30"(60 watts) speaker. It's noisy without a noise gate. But buy the "MXR Smart Gate" and that takes care of that problem.  Let me put it to you this way. Me and my lead guitar player were in "West L.A. Music" in Los Angeles, Ca. and he was trying out a "EH Polychorus"(which he had to take back because of problems with it) and I told him play without this pedal and then plug it in.  He did and the difference was like night and day! The boost and sound quality it gave to the tone was absolutely amazing! My comment was "Your sound without this eq sounds like crap"! He agreed! I bought it and WOULD NOT play without it!

Very dependable unit and I have had it for about 3 months. Zero problems with the pedal. Yes, I would use it without a backup but I plan on buying a backup just because that is the smart thing to do.

Very user friendly with endless possibilities. It sliders that light up and easy to see in a dark club or rehearsal studio. I didn't use the manual just took it out of the box and plugged it into my "Dunlop DC Brick".

They are friendly and quick responses to their email.

I play rock and blues rock and been playing about 20 years. I know you are supposed to be objective here on these reviews but the only complaint is I didn't buy this sooner! 

very musical sounding. First thing I did was putting the 1 kHz slider all the way up and all others all the way down. That got me a nice lo-fi sound for "telephone guitar" parts like in RATM's "Born of a broken man". The riff for "Sleep now in the fire" is also fun with the EQ in front of a RAT. It's a big, fat ugly box, black and silver with yellow lettering, and it's scratched and dented all over. But I already love this thing. If you don't have an EQ, you don't know what you're missing! This is a real soundshifter, great for unexpected changes during a song. Say you play a distorted, bass heavy riff and then launch into a really tinny, scratchy guitar part. If contrast is what you're after, get an EQ. This one is just the right thing. It has a built-in power cord, too.

It seems sturdy, it has a metal case, and it looks like it already took quite a beating. Unless you're a professional wrestler and like to abuse your pedals, this will hold up. All parts are easily serviceable too, and fixing anything should be easy. A backup would be hard to get because this is a vintage unit.

10 sliders for +-15 dB of boosting/cutting frequencies, power LED, stompswitch. It's not a tone sucker, but I will still mod it for true bypass.

No idea. It's vintage and they don't make it anymore.

I play guitar rock, I've been playing for 19 years, blah blah..... yes it's a good match. It expands my tonal palette immensely. My test setup was Telecaster - MXR Phase 100 - EHX 10band EQ - RAT - Vox AC30. I love how I can expand my sound with this thing, I can really degrade the clean sound and it also rocks in front of a distortion unit. Yes, I fell like a rock although it's butt-ugly. I bought it over the Boss and Dano 7-band EQ's because it's just different. A 10 band EQ is really a different animal. It cuts and boosts different frequencies. I wish it was true bypass, but it's really old so... It will be modded for TB soon anyway. It's a personality box. And for the price, I'll give it a 10. Loooove.