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I get that amps, or combinations of a particular guitar/amp may have an eq profile that isn’t to your taste, particularly in the mids, but I think treble is pretty easy to control.
I have a GE-7 and occasionally use it to fiddle with mids or use as a volume boost, but I could live without it. I don’t find it noisy btw, unless you boost the high end, and you’d expect that, wouldn’t you?
The Nighthawk is a glorious amp; truly. But it has a clickable tone switch, that is limited to be fair, hence the EQ.
I notice form one of your old threads, your amp was lacking headroom, so were going for a speaker change. Personally, I wouldn't use an amp that was that deficient...
Horses for courses.
Whatever works for you is fine, and indeed you make some great points about the usefulness of eq pedals, but I’m surprised you need one with your rig is all I’m saying. You asked for opinions but no criticism of you or your gear intended.
Re: my old thread. Everything is a compromise innit? I decided that a speaker switch might lose more than I would gain. I also decided that I was deficient, not the amp, and that I should work with it. I’m glad I did.
Keep rockin’
I searched for years for an amp that could do it at home AND live. Ive now come to the conclusion that they have to be two separate amps...
I also tried it as a tone-shaping device. There wasn't anything wrong with the inherent sound of the amp/guitar, but I fancied trying to use it creatively for recording to give different textures. All it gave me was ball-ache and hiss (Boss).
I sold mine because I realised I was tail chasing. Honestly, if all you've got is a bit too much treble turn the guitar's tone control down - its a shit load cheaper!
now I have a single channel amp which I set to light break up and no FX loop I find adding a clean boost gives me more gain but not really a lift for solos as there isn’t enough headroom left in the amp due to how I have it set. I managed to get a GE7 from Thorpy which he had modded and I cut the lower two frequencies a bit and then raise the 3 mid range sliders and the level slider to just enough without them causing that frequency to overdrive more and produce fizz.
Its actually quite a small physical adjustment on the slider but makes a marked effect on the sound and seems to project me through the band mix for a solo very well, without actually being much ‘louder’.
Also, the Zoom Multi stomp series often get overlooked yet they offer loads of presets with a choice of graphic and parametric eq or even a mix.
https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/163324/a-juice-pedal-instead-of-a-gain-or-drive-pedal/p1
As I realised I use them more for compression and EQ than grit.