Description
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MXR has long been overlooked in favour of better-known brands like UREI, Klark-Teknik and TC Electronics, but the Rochester, New York-based manufacturer turned out a wide range of high-quality studio outboard and effects pedals
MXR made the MXR Pitch Transposer – an early Eventide Harmonizer competitor – a delay line, chorus, stereo flanger, the rare stereo compressor and a range of graphic equalisers
The graphics were probably the most often-seen items of MXR rack gear, partly because they are very eye-catching with white caps on the EQ controls
MXR rackmount gear all came in the same 2U case with cast rack ears, pressed steel top & bottom panels and a front panel sandwiched between the two. Front panels were either bright blue or black
The 31-band equaliser is a 1/3-rd octave eq. These were traditionally used as room eqs but are equally useful as general equalisers, particularly as the narrow filter bandwidth can target narrow frequency bands
Used with care, a graphic EQ can be a surgical tool or a very subtle tone shaper – particularly when used to pull out frequencies to leave space in a mix
It definitely sounds crunchier and more focussed than plugin EQs and can be as subtle or as lairy as you like, depending how far you push it
MXR EQ Filter Centre Frequencies | |
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1 | 25 Hz |
2 | 40 Hz |
3 | 63 Hz |
4 | 100 Hz |
5 | 160 Hz |
6 | 250 Hz |
7 | 400 Hz |
8 | 630 Hz |
9 | 1 KHz |
10 | 1.6 KHz |
11 | 2.5 KHz |
12 | 4.0 KHz |
13 | 6.3 KHz |
14 | 10 KHz |
15 | 16 KHz |
In very good, used condition. Refurbished, recapped, case repainted, new slider caps, tested & working 100%. Photos show the first EQ for sale