Artec Parametric EQ

Olen toistaiseksi käyttänyt leikkaamaan yläpään kihinää ja kielten vinkumista otteita vaihtaessa. Tähän hommaan toimii aivan mainiosti. Samalla kitarasoundissa korostuu alapää kun ulosmenevää tasoa voimistaa.
Käsitykseni mukaan eqvalisoinnissa muutenkin tulisi pikemminkin leikata kuin korostaa. Leikkaamalla ei-toivottuja taajuuksia voi kokonaisvolaa nostaa vahvistimesta.
Boosterina en tätä muuten käyttäisi, lähinnä soundin muokkaukseen.

Piti tätä boosterina sooloihin käyttää, mutta ei toiminu siihen. Jäi jotenkin latteaksi, tai sitten en vain löytänyt oikeita asetuksia.

Bassotaajuksia ei ainakaan voi boostata, menee heti sutuksi, ennemin leikkaa yläpäästä ja nostaa volumea, jos bassoa haluaa lisää tällä.

Potikat liian pienet ja saisi tuo taajuusaluekin näkyä mistä hertsistä mihinkin ja mitä on keski kohdassa arvo.

Samaa latteaa ääntä tarjoaa tämä kuin muutkin kokeilemani Artecin tuotokset.

Kotelo ja rakenne hintasekseen jämäkkä.

I have been trying to set up my looper to play backing tracks through a Mackie SRM 350 pa speaker to get enough volume to practice my sax. The volume is fine but the speaker is ridiculously bass heavy and unusable at home.

I have tried taming the bass with a small Behringer mixer which helps a bit, but it's not hitting the right frequencies and it's a cumbersome solution. I had thought about a graphic eq pedal but had doubts that it would be effective because of my experiences with the Behringer. Then I discovered the Artec Parametric EQ and decided to take a risk with it because of its potential ability to target the frequencies I want to control.

It works! It does exactly what I need and is very effective. It's very simple to operate - you can set a boost or cut and then turn the frequency knob until you hit the offending frequency. Then you can alter the Q setting to adjust the range of frequencies you want to modify.

The build quality is good, at least for what I need. I do agree with other reviewers that having tiny frequency and q control knobs with an even tinier black on black centre point marker is a very poor design. It was ok at home where I could hold it up to a bright light to see, but using it live to adjust the tone would be a challenge to say the least.

The sound quality is good and I didn't detect any noise or impairment of the signal going to the speaker. It works well with the supplied battery it is a much tidier solution than a mixer with an external power supply. I don't know what the battery life is yet.

So, in summary, for my very specific requirement it is an excellent solution and the Artec is a fraction of the price of other parametric eq pedals.

Cheap and pretty decent pedal.
Gain and Q-factor are a bit difficult to read (They won't be knocked/turned easily into another position, but I like to have a fast visual in case somewhere, something in the fx chain went wrong and you have to sort it out quickly.)
It is a bit noisy on the higher settings and a little wide (especially with side mounted jacks).
I find the Artec pedal to have nice ergonomics overall but the bottom is one of the most difficult pedals to get some velcro onto (ribbed anti skate plate and battery compartiment).
The range of the controls is fine, but I would have liked the overall level to be able to deliver a couple of dB more.
Overall, this is a fine pedal if you are wondering if parametric eq-ing is something you can benefit from, and you want to try it out.
It sure did for me when I wanted to make some solo's pop out, by either boosting the mid's/highs, or by cutting low freqs and raising the overall level. It also works to drive a freq dependent overdrive harder/softer without an overall volume drop or boost.
BTW, buy 2 and put them after and before your (buffer independant) fuzz and be surprised what a single fuzz pedal is capable of, without having to buy tons of them (like I did).