Great video as always Colin. I stumbled into EQ uses after chasing Josh Homme's tone for years specifically, the tone on Songs for the Deaf. Once going so far as buying a very used Ampeg VT22 that was way to loud, weighed 100 lbs, and required a small fortune I didn't have to bring it up to spec. I later settled on a Catalinbred SFT, but I still could get that "rip" I was after, but after watching the Sound on Sound video featuring the producer of that album and how he generally got the tones I knew what I needed. As soon as I slapped an EQ on that pedal and boosted the mids I had it. From then on, an EQ is one of my favorite "secret sauce" pedals, and is a Swiss Army knife in the studio. Cheers!

Damn now I kinda want the precision EQ Pedal

I have an MXR 10 band eq and I use it quite sparingly as well. These can be especially effective if someone is using several different gain pedals. Since the tone of each of the pedals can be radically different, once you get a decent tone set, the eq can help balance the ones that need the most help. Also, there are what are called 'parametric' eq pedals out there that, rather than isolate single bands of eq to cut or boost, they take entire frequency ranges and boost/cut them. The drawback to these pedals is that you usually only get 3 or 4 ranges to adjust rather than the 7 to 10 you would normally get with a 'graphic' eq pedal. That being said, most mfx pedals these days generally have both graphic and parametric eq options in them, so if the Boss EQ-200 is too expensive, a pedal like the Zoom MS-70 has several different eq options in it that work just as well.

Great video as always mate !!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and for shedding light on the use of this pedal. I definitively need an EQ pedal on my rig now

EQ is The most Powerful tool for sculpting sound in amps PA's & studio's , then compression , reverb delay….

#ScoopTeam

Personally, I boost the shittt out of mids (and aggressively *cut the bass*... this might be the most significant aspect) BEFORE distortion for a tiiiiight n heavy tone

@@TylrVncnt Lol, my comment was more a joke, but yeah I've also especially when jamming with my buddy , boost the mids more. It helps to bring some fuller tones to the sound. but when I am jamming on my own then I cut the mids again for that thrashy tone

I have a metal zone and was gonna do this, thanks lol

Couldn't have said it better

I like boosting more as a studio engineer, but im only talking about wide q analogue eqs on desks

And do the sweep thing with plugins

Nice! I think that reducive EQ in live sound works better and especially when mixing monitors. When u boost freqs, (mainly highs and high mids) they can (and often will) cause feedback. But if u are not boosting the highs, but rather cutting the unwanted muddynes, then u can just turn the whole monitor up and that will cause a little bit less feedback. Of course in studio with no live monitoring feedback problems and with good gear that isnt noisey, boosting EQ is fun and more effective and faster way to get your tones to sound good. And I totally dig that

@@JuveriSetila also its way harder to get low end in your mixes (target market is a lot of headphones and bluetooth speakers) so to get low end out of i.e. a kickdrum you almost have to boost

I've seen that method used to remove resonance freqs, it's a great little quirk!

if you love math and story problems, then yes you should have. That's what the whole deal is really all about. There is a practical side too. Being a natural tinkerer is half of the battle. I saw math wizards go thru the program with me who aced the tests (always all story problems all the time) but couldn't find the hot end of the soldering iron or even assemble simple crap in the labs. fvcking useless math students. Use these videos and do a bit of further research and you will get all the EE theory you need. (except maybe for tubes. those are special). stick with colin. Also there are a lot of astute commenters in these vids.

You ve no idea how hard it is. The maths are cancer..

@@alexandert696 depends what you're doing, but the vast majority of the math is algebra. There's a linear relationship between voltage and current for Ohmic devices, exponential for BJT, and quadratic for MOSFETs. There is some calculus involved in the derivation for these concepts, but it isn't *too* difficult (unless you're doing antenna design or something).

You can always start learning! Start from basic physics (electromagnetics), a simple circuit analysis course (they offer them online for free), move into solid state physics & semiconductors, learn about PN junctions, BJTs, MOSFETs, feedback, and op-amp design, and you'll be good for pedal design. You can always go the digital route and take an introductory digital design course, learn a language to program an FPGA (Verilog or VHDL) or a microcontroller (C, C++, even Python now), and create some fun gadgets this way, but you'd still need to know some circuit design to create the board to power your FPGA or microcontroller. Anyways, there are a ton of resources online, so you can definitely learn this stuff without going to school.

@@stephenjbro that's true, for the little I have done of electrical engineering on my own, it felt Indeed that the math is not too complex. I'd imagine it gets worse with DSP related stuff :)

You didn't expect to learn something from a CSGuitars video? That was a mistake.

@@ScienceofLoud note to self : don't be stupid anymore.

@@ScienceofLoud 🤘🤘🤘all the gain!!!!!!!!🤘🤘🤘 that's the most common mistake

I still just hear a ringing sound oh wait that’s tinnitus 🤬 the bells the bells😫

could you explain?

@@Fedethedangerous95 He plays a very high frequency (around 16KHz) in the background while he says "Your tinnitus damaged hearing." Tinnitus is a health condition a sufferer's symptoms are often that they hear a loud ringing noise (high frequency) which has not been emitted from an outside source. [1] It is a joke about the condition to try and describe one of the frequency bands. [1] NHS: www.nhs.uk/conditions/tinnitus/

@@samsanders8545 Oh, okay, thank you! I wasn't sure

@@Fedethedangerous95 no problem!

They don't use roman numerals and the wikipedia article goes very in-depth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alnico The gist is that the higher the number the stronger the magnetic pull is. The stronger the magnetic pull, the higher the potential output the pickup has. Alnico 2 magnets give the most sustain because the weaker magnetic pull lets the strings ring out for longer.

@@ErebosGR can't read, need video!

ErebosGR they also have different natural harmonic differences

@@ErebosGR When they 1st replicated Eddies Frankenstien the pickup show 0 on the meter. They thought they messed up but it was a low output AlNiCo ii magnet i've gone almost all Alnico 2 & 3's .

@@utubehound69/videos 0 what? Ohm? The magnet doesn't affect the resistance of the pickup. Remove the magnet and the pickup would measure at exactly the same Ohm as before. If they measured output voltage, then a very weak magnet could show close to 0V, if their meter wasn't very accurate. Only with a non-existent magnet would the pickup measure 0 mV in output. Sounds like another bullshit story that gets passed around without making any sense.

ESPECIALLY with a Hot Rod Deluxe. The drive channels on it were SO poorly EQ'd from the factory, but I dropped a Boss GE-7 in the effects loop, and it's made a whole world of difference. Doesn't sound like canned dogshit anymore.

I use my MXR ten band EQ in the effects loop and it does a great job. In front? Meh. It's okay. But, putting an EQ in the loop really makes it come alive (and your sound, as well).

That's exactly what I do too. Take a high gain noisy amp, 10 band EQ to pump in the frequencies with a noise reduction unit thru the loop and you're set.

Indeed, massive improvement. Can also be used as a "kind of" attenuator, if you lower the volume, it pushes the power tubes harder.

Boss has always been killing it.

Simple: Laney TI Boost. End of story.

Tony Iommi and Brian May use them. Enough said.

@@dionr1168 Don't forget Rory Gallagher, who introduced Brian May to the Rangemaster Treble Booster.

WORST CHANNEL EVER one of those guys eh? Bet you’re real fun at parties.

Or give them ALLLLLLLLL THE GAIN!!

you mean, Scoop the MEDS, so that you can't be HAIRED?

Scoop mids and boost them on amp

Will Carter that ducked me up dog. I was like Damn not again!

The little high-frequency ring wasn't just when he said "tinnitus-damaged hearing", I heard it througout the video

I don't know why but in school we were told that midrange band is from 300Hz to 3000Hz.

@@vidanmitkovski7785 That's reasonable 3-5k it's hard to say exactly

Absolutley. I've got my eq pedal in front of a moog drive pedal that reacts and blooms beautifully to the tone tweaking that precedes it.

Did you watch the video? He said exactly that

Assemble!

@@ScienceofLoud *plays the avengers theme on a kazoo*

You forget that Colin is a Wegie. The double-entendre is entirely deliberate - as a test to see how many it passes by. "What's fur ye'll no go by ye" (I'm not a Scot, but I've lived here long enough to have learned 🤣)