MXR M109S Mxr 6B Equalizer, Silver

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Love the rest too, including the Van Hagar years (oops, forgot about VH III…), but those first four vinyl donuts are to me and many others just the nads. Never did get there exactly, an evolving quest, but in the context of EVH tone I was happy to find that I still had my old MXR 6-band. Covering all the essential guitar frequencies, each slider of the MXR Six Band EQ is ready to deliver +/-18dB of cut or boost for total control over your sound. Early MXR pedals have their downsides including battery‑only operation and this one is no different.

One popular method is to boost every frequency ever so slightly (push every slider up an equal amount) to get a strong boost for solos.I’m happy with my pickups, so the only thing I’m using it is to shape the sound after one of my hi-gain preamps. The Six Band EQ can create scooped-mid rhythm tones with massive low end, add natural sounding warmth to a quacky acoustic pickup, eliminate onstage feedback, and much more. In addition, since the 6band is not a distortion – but a clean gain boost – it plays well with other pedals. Other than the bypass switch and sliders, there aren’t any parts sticking out, and sliders protrude just a little so it’s not easy to accidentally break them. Apart from an amplifier, nothing gives guitar players a greater degree of control over tonality than an equalizer.

After watching some rig rundown videos (Tom Bukovac), it became obvious that an eq pedal was what I was looking for.out of all the pedals residing on my two boards now (one for boxes that go in the input, one for the loop) which goes(from guitar to amp); MXR Custom Comp(replaced the vintage Dyna Comp that went into the closet due to value, as well as noise)> Rams head big muff clone>EP Boost> Timmy> Zendrive> Tim(with a true bypass loop strip containing a dd2, optical compressor I built)> boss ce2 chorus which not only sounds great being driven from a boost or overdrive>MXR flange(in three front for the same reason)> amp.