Monday, July 3, 2017

EQ- EMPRESS PARA EQ .....the miracle worker for the perfect tone


     EMPRESS effects PARA EQ                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

$250.00 USD

Any guitarist that even just has a simple OD knows that the tone knob setting is critical.
and a bass player soon learns that a bass and ampno matter how good does not insure that you can get a great sound.
A good EQ can perform miracles with anyone's set up.

Lets start with a simple graphic EQ to get a handle on how an EQ works.

First if all you have is a treble and bass on your amp the concept is  simple well almost simple. LOL
The bass you understand the treble you understand.
But what about the sound between them? The sound in the middle ...the Mids..

This is simple ...the sound between the lows and highs. On a bass/treble rig the lower part of the mids  are turned up with the bass & the upper mids are turned up with the treble.
If you have a Mid knob as well then you can boost or cut them independently.


So a graphic simple says... 

Let's divide it up even more.

Low/Bass ...
then lower Mids
then mid Mids
then upper Mids
then Treble/Highs


The simple 5 band Fender EQ has just this set up.
So this unit is easy to grasp ...easy to use.
You can actually buy a 31 band LOL
the principle is the same.
.
Why get a Parametic EQ.?
It looks complicated but it isn't.

WHY?

Just image that the 1.4k slider on the Fender EQ helped but you just know it would be better for you at 1.5k.
Imagine if you could grab the 1.4k slider and actually slide it horizontally to the right and go to 1.5k.

Of course that's nuts you can not.
But that is what a Parametric can do.

You may only have 3 choices ....Low Mid and Highs...but you can move them to whatever frequency in their range you like.
There is more you can do too.
BUT I will leave it here because if you can get what I just wrote in your head
everything else becomes dead simple.

So back to the graphic. We wanted to move 1.4 to 1.5....but could not
but with the Para we can even get it to be 1.5698
In short we can zero in on the tone!!!
So para is king!!!

So why buy the Empress? It is not cheap!

Because it is quite simply a studio quality unit.

Bass player will be amazed at the extra punch that the boost gives. It makes any quasi overdrive for bass sound like fuzzy fizzy mess substitute. 

AT A PRICE OF $250.00 USD IT IS A TOTAL STEAL!!!!

FOR THE ADVENTURIST WE HAVE A VIDEO!!!





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