EQ signal chain ideal placement

YamahaGuy · #1 06-15-2018, 02:15 PM

So I ordered an MXR 10 band eq to shape my acoustic tone a bit more. My acoustic pedal board has (in order) compression, tuner, chorus, reverb, delay and is very quiet -- no hiss at all. I really don't want (or have room) to add the eq pedal to the board. So, should I put the eq before or after my pedal board? If I were running through my amp, or my "big" mixer, I'd use the effects loop or an aux send, but this will be going to my Yamaha MG8CX mixer to a DXR10 powered speaker most of the time.

I'm thinking going before the pedal board is going to be the way to go.

Thoughts?

Paleolith54 · #2 06-15-2018, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by YamahaGuy

So I ordered an MXR 10 band eq to shape my acoustic tone a bit more. My acoustic pedal board has (in order) compression, tuner, chorus, reverb, delay and is very quiet -- no hiss at all. I really don't want (or have room) to add the eq pedal to the board. So, should I put the eq before or after my pedal board? If I were running through my amp, or my "big" mixer, I'd use the effects loop or an aux send, but this will be going to my Yamaha MG8CX mixer to a DXR10 powered speaker most of the time.

I'm thinking going before the pedal board is going to be the way to go.

Thoughts?

I'd put it last in the chain. Definitely not upstream of the compressor.