The flanger HF-2 high band flange. It only flanges the high frequency and leaves the low end clean. It's the pedal all chours pedals wish they could be!
@Dave Carpenter Yeah, she's like "would you know the difference between a bass and a regular guitar just by looking, I mean not by sound but do they look different? See this is actually a good thing, here's why: I have had women fall madly in love with me before, because they thought they were getting a great musician, then they lost interest and broke my heart after about a month. That happened many times... The lady I'm with now however, has stuck with me for a few years already, so there's none of that "omg I'm dating an artist" infatuation.
I use a GE-7 at the end of my chain before the amp, just to boost the signal for solos, riffs, emphasizing a particular part. etc. It's also great after a distortion or overdrive pedal to shape the distortion by , say, giving it more mids if necessary or boosting the bass frequencies. Really useful little gadget.
Tip here for strat users who want to turn their guitar into semi hollow: Use the semi hollow settings as described in the video just a bit more to low end as you please for example: 100 maxed (+15)-200 noon (0) -400 just below noon (-3-5), in the second position of your guitar (mid+bridge). TA TAA!
I want a 10 band EQ pedal. Anyone has any recommendations? I have had this pedal for 30 years. Purchase a boss pedal set with power supply boas tuner from a guy in the street. He was also selling his fender squire. Strat. He was taking $200 for every thing. I went for the pedals and pedal board with boss tuner. Best deal ever.
For a non switchable amp like a tweed deluxe, I set the gain to distorted on the amp, then bump down the level on the ge7 to make it clean. So if you’re playing ramble on by led zep, you can DESELECT the pedal to get your high gain chorus. Kind of backwards thinking, it rules!
like rolling off the volume on the guitar, but with a buffer and selectable EQ options. i used to use a passive box with a switch and pots in it for a really caveman version of that.
It's a great video with no time wasting at all. I use most of these ideas myself. But I don't think one has to go to extreme settings like 15dB boosts or cuts (except for the telephone effect maybe). The desired effects can be achieved with more subtile settings that do not mangle or warp your signal as much. 06:50 A sound that has 15dB cut at 800Hz will be very hard to mix and will need help stay present in a dense mix. I think it would enough to drop 800Hz just enough so that this frequency drops below the other instruments in that range for that effect to work.
In the loop it works magic. Making drastic improvements from the pre-amp section which are amplified in the powersection.Getting rid of fizz and beef up the overall sound. Great inexpensive pedal.
I get it, but my reply was to the statement "great inexpensive pedal" which it is not inexpensive. Great, yes, I have one, but it's expensive relatively speaking. Rock on! @@johnegan4762
You can also get a pseudo-dobro sound by taking every other one all the way up and all the way down. So 100 all the way cut, 200 all the way up, 400 all the way down, 800 all the way up, 1.6 all the way down....etc. Learned this from a steel buddy.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I've just used some of your settings at a local band practise. ...what a difference and feel to the guitar sound! Just amazing!!
Awesome video! I'm using mine as the first pedal up front, before the signal hits a noise gate, compressor and the amp. I use it to boost mids and cut low and high frequencies (-10, -5, 0, +5, 0, -5, -10). I play superstrats with hot pickups into a modern sounding amp. These settings allow me to retain a lot of clarity even at high distortion. The sound will even cut through diamonds.
This works for vocal EQ, live solo shows as well. I run a guitar cable quarter inch to the vocal input of the QSC CP12, then use an xlr female to quarter inch mic cable, into the output of this equalizer and to the mic cable.
I swear I have a small fortune in pedals, own the King of Tone, the limited Wampler Germanium Tumnus Deluxe, and numerous high end and hard to find pedals, always come back to Boss. I know style of play and equipment effect how pedals react. The equipment I mostly use: Marshall/Friedman amp (have found nothing better sounding in front of my amps than the Keely modded Boss BD2 and SD1. Instrument of choice are Gibson Les Pauls w. '57s and Fender Strats. Enjoyed the vid Bonedo, thanks for sharing.
Of all the pedals that I got modded, this one was the best. Running on 18 volts truly made a difference in clarity and headroom, highly recommend it if you’re a fan of this pedal in the long run
Excellent video, thank you for demonstrating and teaching this, it is one of the best videos I saw in this year 2021, greetings from Tierra del Fuego ARGENTINA, sincerely, Nicolas
I have two of these I use one for my pedal steel and the other on my electric guitar rig as first in the chain of Boss compre, Tube screamer , bloody brilliant device.
Super cool video! Thanks a lot! Finally found the way to make that “aneurysm by nirvana” tone with that telephone sound. Cheers! Best regards from Japan!
I watched this video around 3 weeks ago 12/07/2021). Ok so today December 23, 2021 I came back to review this video. I was seeking out how to transform my Les Paul neck pickup into a Semi Hollow model" at 3:31 on my EQ. I think I like the tone as illustrated here at 3:31 and beyond. I just wanted to be sure or the 7 band EQ settings shown here. Now I am as I have written it all down. Thanks "Guitar Bonedo" Oh and I just SUBSCRIBED! - Peter age 71
that was so great. thanks! i didn't want that to end. cheers for sharing your expertise on this. i learnt a lot. i have a GE-7 and am still learning of its greatness. well done!
EQ is life. I use my GE-7 in add of my Boss CE-1 chorus into a Fender Supersonic 22 set flat (bass 5 -treble 5) with a Les Paul neck pick up to shape my Metallica clean tone and it works amazing. This pedal is gold and this demo too !! 👊🏻💀👊🏻
This was excellent! I'll buy this exact EQ pedal, so this was very helpful. I will definitely experiment a lot, watching this video and trying it out myself, to hear what it does to the sound on my amp.
The best overview on Pedal Equalizer! What I have always been looking for! Can the Wampler Equator do the same? It would be very interesting to see and compare. P.S. Sorry for my English
Wampler is a parametric EQ which means it gives you knobs responsible for a certain set of frequencies. Pedals like the GE-7 and MXR 6 band EQ (amongst others) are graphic EQs meaning that you can boost and cut specific frequencies. I prefer graphic EQs like this one over parametric EQs like Wamplers personally. Hope that helps!
@@imdhomedesign3524 This is true. But the important frequencies are written on Wampler. Those that are used often. Others can be found in between. My question is different. Can you make the sound like on video using 4 frequencies? (bass, treble, parametric mid 1 & 2) Thanks for the help)
I couldn't get enough low end out of my Marshall so I bought a boss bass EQ pedal and boy did that beef up the low end growl it also doubled as a boost so I could keep channel 2 as a lead
The key is to use it in an effects loop , and you wont need much boost from the pedal to notice a difference in volume. And in the loop it wont affect your tone at all unless you want it to.
The best eq I've ever used.has alot of headroom and cleared my noisy amp up instantly. it also reduced all the noise from my pedalboard. works good with bass and guitar because the settings go extra low past zero in the -15db range.
That first clean tone on signal fidelity check is beautiful. Is that really the signal chain? Do you minf sharing a little bit? What is the mic and the mic position, etc..?
Let me share my GE7 experience: I'm using it always turned on..to fix all my tones...clean or drive...changes everything! I'm I wrong to let it always turned on? Hugs to everyone!
The Guitar Borneo's "no talking" method is unrivaled. It's absolutely fantastic. Thank you guys.
Hear hear
I absolutely love it
Maybe the most underrated Boss pedal ever.
Absolutely,its my tubescreamer booster ha!,need another for cab simulation duty last in chain
maybe the most inflationary comment ever...:-)
The flanger HF-2 high band flange. It only flanges the high frequency and leaves the low end clean. It's the pedal all chours pedals wish they could be!
Swiss army pedal. Have mine to make my ODs sound like a real amp. This is everything your pedalboard is missing.
Underrated? They’ve sold OBSCENE amounts of this pedal! 🙄
Me: "Wow! Hear the difference!"
My girlfriend: "Sounds the same."
My girlfriend: "Is that a guitar or a bass?"
@@erestube Yup. Kinda funny how guys play guitar to get chicks, but the women don't really care about the music...
The best comment ever!
@Dave Carpenter Yeah, she's like "would you know the difference between a bass and a regular guitar just by looking, I mean not by sound but do they look different? See this is actually a good thing, here's why: I have had women fall madly in love with me before, because they thought they were getting a great musician, then they lost interest and broke my heart after about a month. That happened many times... The lady I'm with now however, has stuck with me for a few years already, so there's none of that "omg I'm dating an artist" infatuation.
I laughed so hard at this. I am a gear guy and my wife always says every amp/pedal/guitar i get sounds the same!
Great video, what a relief to get usable information without thousands of boring speak and selfpromotion. THANKS
One of the most useful vids ive come across. Bravo.
I've had this pedal for 30 years. This video is outstanding.
do you use it and love it? i'm deciding wether to buy it used or new.... but seeing you've had it for 30 years, might as well buy it new.
Nice video. Proof that actions speak louder than words.
,,no talking” buys me sooo much!
EQ can do a lot for a cheap set of pickups.
The fuzz / wah effect alone makes it worth it. 6:03
It's one of only 3 pedals I use or need.
Yea it does, that wah sound was awesome
I use a GE-7 at the end of my chain before the amp, just to boost the signal for solos, riffs, emphasizing a particular part. etc. It's also great after a distortion or overdrive pedal to shape the distortion by , say, giving it more mids if necessary or boosting the bass frequencies. Really useful little gadget.
they are all useful ! does it work best in a loop? assuming the amp has one
i like the "V" SOUND..
the most underrated pedals of all...
THANKS FOR VIDS!!!!
Tip here for strat users who want to turn their guitar into semi hollow: Use the semi hollow settings as described in the video just a bit more to low end as you please for example: 100 maxed (+15)-200 noon (0) -400 just below noon (-3-5), in the second position of your guitar (mid+bridge). TA TAA!
How can you get clock positioning out of a vertical slide??
@@rikkitikkitavi3118 not important mate, u probably get what i mean.
I want a 10 band EQ pedal. Anyone has any recommendations? I have had this pedal for 30 years. Purchase a boss pedal set with power supply boas tuner from a guy in the street. He was also selling his fender squire. Strat. He was taking $200 for every thing. I went for the pedals and pedal board with boss tuner.
Best deal ever.
For a non switchable amp like a tweed deluxe, I set the gain to distorted on the amp, then bump down the level on the ge7 to make it clean. So if you’re playing ramble on by led zep, you can DESELECT the pedal to get your high gain chorus. Kind of backwards thinking, it rules!
like rolling off the volume on the guitar, but with a buffer and selectable EQ options. i used to use a passive box with a switch and pots in it for a really caveman version of that.
thats a really good idea
It's a great video with no time wasting at all. I use most of these ideas myself. But I don't think one has to go to extreme settings like 15dB boosts or cuts (except for the telephone effect maybe). The desired effects can be achieved with more subtile settings that do not mangle or warp your signal as much.
06:50 A sound that has 15dB cut at 800Hz will be very hard to mix and will need help stay present in a dense mix. I think it would enough to drop 800Hz just enough so that this frequency drops below the other instruments in that range for that effect to work.
In the loop it works magic. Making drastic improvements from the pre-amp section which are amplified in the powersection.Getting rid of fizz and beef up the overall sound.
Great inexpensive pedal.
Is it ok to set them up in series with delay and chorus after eq??
@@jhonpasquez6145 yes, highly recommended since it's the proper way for time based effects, especially in the loop.
Inexpensive? It's one of the priciest EQs out there.
@@AimingWanderously Cheaper than buying a new amp which is what putting this in the effect loop does.
I get it, but my reply was to the statement "great inexpensive pedal" which it is not inexpensive. Great, yes, I have one, but it's expensive relatively speaking. Rock on! @@johnegan4762
You can also get a pseudo-dobro sound by taking every other one all the way up and all the way down. So 100 all the way cut, 200 all the way up, 400 all the way down, 800 all the way up, 1.6 all the way down....etc. Learned this from a steel buddy.
Really love this pedal. I already knew the Lo-fi and Boost uses, but the fixed Wah was new to me. Awesome!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
I've just used some of your settings at a local band practise. ...what a difference and feel to the guitar sound!
Just amazing!!
Awesome video! I'm using mine as the first pedal up front, before the signal hits a noise gate, compressor and the amp. I use it to boost mids and cut low and high frequencies (-10, -5, 0, +5, 0, -5, -10). I play superstrats with hot pickups into a modern sounding amp. These settings allow me to retain a lot of clarity even at high distortion. The sound will even cut through diamonds.
Ever since I got this pedal. My quest for single analog pedals really went from 10 to 1! this is like a Swiss knife for effect pedals or amps.
This works for vocal EQ, live solo shows as well. I run a guitar cable quarter inch to the vocal input of the QSC CP12, then
use an xlr female to quarter inch mic cable, into the output of this equalizer and to the mic cable.
This video is very excellent! Love the no talking approach just straight demo. Really well done ty
Great pedal demo. Everything it needs to be and nothing it doesn't.
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I swear I have a small fortune in pedals, own the King of Tone, the limited Wampler Germanium Tumnus Deluxe, and numerous high end and hard to find pedals, always come back to Boss. I know style of play and equipment effect how pedals react. The equipment I mostly use: Marshall/Friedman amp (have found nothing better sounding in front of my amps than the Keely modded Boss BD2 and SD1. Instrument of choice are Gibson Les Pauls w. '57s and Fender Strats. Enjoyed the vid Bonedo, thanks for sharing.
Of all the pedals that I got modded, this one was the best. Running on 18 volts truly made a difference in clarity and headroom, highly recommend it if you’re a fan of this pedal in the long run
Excellent video, thank you for demonstrating and teaching this, it is one of the best videos I saw in this year 2021, greetings from Tierra del Fuego ARGENTINA, sincerely, Nicolas
Just got mine yesterday 🤘
Killer vid showing all these options. I have always felt if I had to pick one single desert-island 'effect', it would be EQ. So versatile!
Great demo, I subscribed because of how you did this. And I love how there’s no talking. Thank you.
I've had two of these just sitting around while I've gone thru every OD and boost in existence.
I like the GE-7’s versatility best on my small board. Thanks for a great review, and a great review style.
I have two of these I use one for my pedal steel and the other on my electric guitar rig as first in the chain of Boss compre, Tube screamer , bloody brilliant device.
Simple, fast. Thank you
If you play slide, you can set every other slider full blast, and every other one all the way down to get a dobro like sound.
Woah the semi hollow suggestion worked really well when I tried it. Such a useful pedal!
Is the song at 5:25 a stones song?
Super cool video! Thanks a lot! Finally found the way to make that “aneurysm by nirvana” tone with that telephone sound. Cheers! Best regards from Japan!
Perfect no voice demo vid! THANK YOU
This Video deserves to be in youtube's ALL TIME Classic videos. COngrats to GUITAR BONEDO for this video!
I watched this video around 3 weeks ago 12/07/2021). Ok so today December 23, 2021 I came back to review this video. I was seeking out how to transform my Les Paul neck pickup into a Semi Hollow model" at 3:31 on my EQ. I think I like the tone as illustrated here at 3:31 and beyond. I just wanted to be sure or the 7 band EQ settings shown here. Now I am as I have written it all down. Thanks "Guitar Bonedo" Oh and I just SUBSCRIBED! - Peter age 71
that was so great. thanks! i didn't want that to end. cheers for sharing your expertise on this. i learnt a lot. i have a GE-7 and am still learning of its greatness. well done!
Awesome video. I don't have a GE7 but I have Amplitube which has a GE7 so I'm going through and recreating the tones in the video with that.
thanks for this.......awesome
EQ is life. I use my GE-7 in add of my Boss CE-1 chorus into a Fender Supersonic 22 set flat (bass 5 -treble 5) with a Les Paul neck pick up to shape my Metallica clean tone and it works amazing.
This pedal is gold and this demo too !! 👊🏻💀👊🏻
Plus. the Ge7 Boss can transform and give any effect pedals colors and different sounds
sounds.
Best demo of the pedal I have seen on YT!
This VID is magnificient !!! I have one, it's lying in it's cupboard but it really really needs a fixed spot on my new pedal board !!!!
I wish I've would have known this long time ago, before buying tons of overdrive pedals (that I 'm still going to use).
GE-7 really can do A LOT.
That is some versatility; massive bang for the buck. EXCELLENT REVIEW!
That bassman / strat combo sound good
I’m speechless! thank you so much!
🎉🎉🎉🎉 Que pasada, me parece un vídeo muy instructivo. Buenísimo.
Más vídeos como este por favor, muchísimo mejor que los que sólo muestran el sonido.
thats cool, after using this tool since decades, i learned a lot from this video, greets pedalboots
This is one of my most favorite pedals . I use it as a booster add to contour my tone
Good demo. Thank you!
This is a really great demo
My Boss EQ pedal bit the dirt. So I used the body to build a different pedal. They didn't mention that tip in the video.
You're a CRACK!! thank you so much for that amazing review, there's a lot of time underneath that video!! 💪🎸⚡💥
Was the pedal always in front of the amp or also in the fx loop?
I have this pedal, but I never use it… But not anymore! Congratulations and thank you !!
Finally an useful video. Great job.
Thank you for these illustrative videos. Amazing!! My questions about these pedal where answered after the video. Thank guys
Awesome video! Makes me consider the Ge-200...
This was excellent! I'll buy this exact EQ pedal, so this was very helpful. I will definitely experiment a lot, watching this video and trying it out myself, to hear what it does to the sound on my amp.
The best overview on Pedal Equalizer! What I have always been looking for! Can the Wampler Equator do the same? It would be very interesting to see and compare. P.S. Sorry for my English
Wampler is a parametric EQ which means it gives you knobs responsible for a certain set of frequencies. Pedals like the GE-7 and MXR 6 band EQ (amongst others) are graphic EQs meaning that you can boost and cut specific frequencies.
I prefer graphic EQs like this one over parametric EQs like Wamplers personally. Hope that helps!
@@imdhomedesign3524 This is true. But the important frequencies are written on Wampler. Those that are used often. Others can be found in between.
My question is different. Can you make the sound like on video using 4 frequencies? (bass, treble, parametric mid 1 & 2)
Thanks for the help)
@@imdhomedesign3524 the Equator is an excellent EQ.Just do a bit of research on Para EQ usage.
Appreciate ya. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic video - thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Fantastic pedal demo.
Really useful. Thx for posting!
I couldn't get enough low end out of my Marshall so I bought a boss bass EQ pedal and boy did that beef up the low end growl it also doubled as a boost so I could keep channel 2 as a lead
Nice. Great pedal and you cam even use it as a paper weight or a shield against a nuclear bomb.
The key is to use it in an effects loop , and you wont need much boost from the pedal to notice a difference in volume. And in the loop it wont affect your tone at all unless you want it to.
Coool! It doesn't sound at all prone to noise as I have read somewhere.
The best eq I've ever used.has alot of headroom and cleared my noisy amp up instantly. it also reduced all the noise from my pedalboard. works good with bass and guitar because the settings go extra low past zero in the -15db range.
6:52 *pulls out the exact two pedals I just bought from my local guitar store*
Killer recording tool. In rehearsal and live shows it works in only one configuration in every amp, but it stays on all the time
The pedal everybody should have !!
Great video! Congrats and thx a lot.
I've been using the Boss Parametric pedal for over 30 years to do this kind of thing.
Don’t sell it. I did and regret it.
Muy buen video. Se agradecen los datos.
Best demo ever!
That first clean tone on signal fidelity check is beautiful. Is that really the signal chain? Do you minf sharing a little bit? What is the mic and the mic position, etc..?
0:38 I thought you played "Down Down" by Bachman Turner Overdrive.
Love the wah sound
This is a great video, no fuss and it helps! Thanks
This is just amazing. Thank you.
Super-informative. Thank you!
Terrific video 🤘
Let me share my GE7 experience: I'm using it always turned on..to fix all my tones...clean or drive...changes everything! I'm I wrong to let it always turned on? Hugs to everyone!
That's perfectly fine. If it sounds good don't change it!
@@WildChildMcCloud i agree if it sounds good then keep doing it :D
If it sounds good, then its good. Like my teacher used to say
I use my 6 band eg in the fx loop on my orange super crush 100 head and it makes the dirt channel into a flame thrower!
Thank you for this.
Had an almost acoustic sound in there as well!
Genius.
Thank you.
🙏🏽🙂
Great video. Learned a lot.
Great video, really helpful, many thanks 👍👍
Thanks 👍
NICE!!! Thanks for the video!