About EQ Pedals

An EQ pedal is the tone stack you can park anywhere in the chain. Cut mud before a drive. Lift the mids so a solo jumps. Tame a dark amp, a woolly fuzz, a room that swallows the guitar. Graphic bands for a picture of the spectrum. A boost-plus-EQ for a clean lift that still has a shape. A bass comp-EQ when four strings need to sit in a mix without getting round. This page is that control, not a pile of extra knobs for their own sake.

How to Choose

• Programmable graphic EQ: many bands, stereo, presets, the studio EQ in a pedal. The Source Audio EQ2.
• Boost plus EQ: a clean lift with a tone shape, for solos and always-on sparkle. The Diamond Boost/EQ.
• Bass compaction: compressor and EQ together so the low end stays even and the mids speak. The Diamond Bass Comp-EQ.

Where Most Players Start

• Source Audio EQ2: the deep programmable equalizer, for players who want a full graphic and saved scenes, not three tone knobs.
• Diamond Bass Comp-EQ: compression and EQ for bass, when the low end has to stand up in a mix.
• Diamond Boost/EQ: boost and EQ in one Diamond, the always-on lift with a shape.

Browse the EQ pedals below and pick the one that sounds like the record in your head.