POD's 4 Band EQ, worth using?

[Robert W]

Would it be more advantageous to just skip using the POD's EQ in the signal chain, and EQ as needed later rather than use the POD's EQ in my chain?

 

[Seth Munson]

use it, what could it hurt?

 

[tempe]

Its really useful for dual tone's, more so for bass in my experience. But say you want to get that grindy bass sound, load up once of the clean guitar amps, stick a TS or Bass OD in front of that and use the EQ to HP to about 500 - 600 Hz, and then create your low end for tone B and Low Pass that to where you feel is appropriate. You could do this using 2 different tracks and EQ after PodFarm, but I just find this way to be a little simpler

 

[Robert W]

Its really useful for dual tone's, more so for bass in my experience. But say you want to get that grindy bass sound, load up once of the clean guitar amps, stick a TS or Bass OD in front of that and use the EQ to HP to about 500 - 600 Hz, and then create your low end for tone B and Low Pass that to where you feel is appropriate. You could do this using 2 different tracks and EQ after PodFarm, but I just find this way to be a little simpler

That's an interesting idea.

At what frequencies and dBs would you cut at to simulate a high/low pass for a guitar tone?

 

[Harry Hughes]

I always have to use the 4 band semi parametric EQ.
It's the only way to get around the limitations of the amp models really.
I find myself always cutting around 800-850Hz and I tend to always to set the high shelf to reduce stuff above 7 or 8KHz.
Just use the normal High and Low Pass filtering with whatever EQ you use in your DAW, but just always try to get the best tone you can within POD Farm before you resort to using any post-EQ (besides Low and High pass filtering).

 

[Robert W]

I always have to use the 4 band semi parametric EQ.
It's the only way to get around the limitations of the amp models really.
I find myself always cutting around 800-850Hz and I tend to always to set the high shelf to reduce stuff above 7 or 8KHz.
Just use the normal High and Low Pass filtering with whatever EQ you use in your DAW, but just always try to get the best tone you can within POD Farm before you resort to using any post-EQ (besides Low and High pass filtering).

I'm migrating over to Reaper now. Been spending the last couple of days trying to read as many "how tos" and watch as many vids as I can. Suffice to say my eyes are burning out of my friggin' head, atm.

Harry, when you say cutting around the 800-850kHz mark, how much do you tend to cut?

Also, what is meant when you say that you're "cutting the high shelf"? does this mean that you're reducing the dBs around the 7-8kHz range? And if so, by how much, generally speaking.

 

[tempe]

That's an interesting idea.

At what frequencies and dBs would you cut at to simulate a high/low pass for a guitar tone?

To be honest I've never even tried this for guitar, as every time I've used a dual tone it's ended up worse haha. Needless to say being a bass player, I'm better at getting a killer bass sound lol. For guitars I guess the best way to do it would be to use one of the thinner amps like the 5150 model or something, paired with the line 6 big bottom and blend the two.

For the EQ I'd probably low pass the big bottom to about 500 and High pass the 5150 to about 300, I find it really important to have a crossover and not a direct cut, otherwise to me it just sounds like two different tone's rather than a awesome blend.

 

[Harry Hughes]

I'll get some screen shots up (with POD Farm), maybe tomorrow, to show you what I mean

 

[Robert W]

I'll get some screen shots up (with POD Farm), maybe tomorrow, to show you what I mean

Danke!