10-Band Graphic EQ

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.