TONE TIPS: Understanding EQ - Featuring the Empress Para EQ MKii
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- Made this video earlier this year, and finally releasing it!
Understanding EQ - Featuring the Empress Para EQ MKii
Getting studio like tone means using studio like tools - In this video we take a look at shaping your guitar tone with EQ. Understanding what EQ does, how it works, and when to use it is something can be a little confusing. In this video I explain different types of EQ and what they are best suited for. Then we take a look at the new Empress Para EQ Deluxe and show different ways I use EQ to get great tones! Even if you aren't looking at the Empress, this video will help you use EQ for better and interesting sounds.
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There are tips and tricks all through the video but here's the general outline:
0:00 Intro
0:26 EQ Visual Walk Through Intro
1:06 High Pass and Low Pass
2:18 HP and LP Potential Uses
3:03 Shelfing EQ
5:34 Parametric EQ
8:07 EQ and Gain Considerations
9:23 Empress Para EQ Deluxe
9:54 EQ Uses 1 (Tone Shaping)
12:10 EQ Warning! (EQ'ing in Solo)
12:37 EQ Uses 2 (Boosting the Mids)
14:21 Switchable Boost
17:08 EQ Uses 3 (Creative EQ)
18:19 Final Thoughts on the Para EQ Deluxe MKii
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Thank you for making this video... It really really helps me a lot to understand EQ!❤
Honestly one of the best overall explanations on what to do with EQ, how to use EQ to shape tone. Thank you!
Awesome! Glad it was helpful
Always seemed to get better results with parmetric EQ's over graphic. Great video and thorough explanation. Glad I found it.
Excellent explanation and demonstration. Easily, one of the most powerful tools available for tone shaping, and it can be placed at different locations in the signal chain for different purposes. 👍😎
Absolutely!
The best explanation of EQ I have ever viewed!
Thank you! This is a terrific explanation of high pass, low pass, etc. I have unsuccessfully been trying to figure this out on my own for a while.
I've been trying to understand the specific frequencies to focus on. Thank you 👍
Really informative! Loved the part at 15:45 sounded ace 👍
Great video. Stellar information.
Thanks!
Excellent video! Thank you!
Great explanation/demo!
Thanks!
Would love to see you use this pedal to achieve some standard classic tones like treble booster, maybe QOTSA and especially a Dumble tone like David Lindley.
Fantastic demo. another question is where to use in the signal chain: pre-drive, post-drive or in the effects loop. Will all do different things. Tongue in cheek with all the pedals and all the effects out there, sometimes I just grab my tele and plug straight into an amp and just use the volume and tone knob on the guitar and don’t get too caught up with knobs. Haha.
This should have gotten way more comments.
I’m having trouble understanding the difference between low shelf and high pass filter, or between high shelf and low pass filter. And in particular, how those knobs are working on the empress. Are the LP/HP knobs, and the low/high shelf knobs moving the effect left and right on the frequency spectrum, or up and down for how much it is effecting?
Think of the HP/LP as a cut off - the knob determines what frequency the cut off starts (ie: a HP set at 80hz cut out everything below 80hz) A shelf on the Empress has a set frequency and you can cut or boost frequencies with the knob (the low shelf is set at 220 I believe so the knob cuts or boost frequencies below 220, with 12 o’clock being “flat” or no affect)
@@MichaelWWestbrook that makes sense, thanks for responding 🙏
@@waitin4winter In case you or someone else reading this needs a visual example for the shelves, go to 4:18 in this video. The dots on the X axis (frequencies) are fixed on the ParaEQ at around those points. When you turn the knobs on the ParaEQ for shelving it raises and lowers the boost or cut amount, like when he raises and lowers things on the Y axis.
Is it worth upgrading MKI version? Thanks!
I second this question, especially for the MKII non deluxe. Looks like it requires 300mA as opposed to 85mA. No clue what the implications of this are.