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Hootsmon

Just askin' folks....what makes this particular EQ pedal so expensive at almost 300 quid?

Does it offer up anything more than the MXR/ Dunlops for example?

prlgmnr

Hootsmon said:

Just askin' folks....what makes this particular EQ pedal so expensive at almost 300 quid?

Hootsmon said:

Mesa Boogie 

ICBM

Hootsmon said:

Just askin' folks....what makes this particular EQ pedal so expensive at almost 300 quid?

Says the man with overdrive pedals which cost more than some amps .

Answer - because it sounds exactly like the ones in their amps, and they can...

They do have different frequency centres from other EQs, if that matters. They're also remarkably nice-sounding - the EQ circuit is actually used in a couple of Mesa amps, as a sealed unit with no controls, purely to make the amp sound better. They call it the 'Mojo Module', but really it's just the same four-transistor circuit with no sliders.

Transistors make a valve amp sound better? Yes .

Sassafras

None of their pedals are what you'd call bargains.

ICBM

Sassafras said:

None of their products are what you'd call bargains.

FTFY

Although it is fair to say the amps do usually have feature sets which aren't often found all at the same time on other amps, and are well-made, so they justify their prices in that sense.

Funkfingers

Sassafras said:

None IS 

FTFY. 

None - contraction of “not one”. Singular.

ICBM said:

They do have different frequency centres from other EQs, if that matters.

It seems to on my old Quad Pre-Amp rack.

The chosen frequency values all seem to do something useful without ruining the guitar tone through overzealous narrow band boosting or cutting.

ICBM said:

They're also remarkably nice-sounding - the EQ circuit is actually used in a couple of Mesa amps, as a sealed unit with no controls, purely to make the amp sound better. They call it the 'Mojo Module', but really it's just the same four-transistor circuit with no sliders.

I suspect that this module plus a pot explains the Notch control on the Throttle Box pedal.

Sassafras

"None of their products IS what you'd call bargains"

No, sorry, it just doesn't sound what you'd call right.

Moominpapa

Sassafras said:

"None of their products IS what you'd call bargains"

No, sorry, it just doesn't sound what you'd call right.

No one here are going to agree with you

Sassafras

Moominpapa said:

Sassafras said:

"None of their products IS what you'd call bargains"

No, sorry, it just doesn't sound what you'd call right.

No one here are going to agree with you

None here is going to agree with yous.