Product: Rockman 12-band Instrument Equalizer
Price Paid: US $100
Submitted
08/05/2002
at
06:11am
by
Anonymous
Ease of Use
:
10
8-04-2002 These things are awesome for guitar specifically! Good luck finding one now though! I have two since I go stereo! I have used it on Marshall's, Boogie's and Direct with a Line 6 POD! They have only chosen the bands that are important to guitar, this makes it alot easier to dial in your tone!
Sound Quality
:
10
Sound quality is pure analog enjoyment, very low noise! These will never leave my rack!
Reliability
:
8
I had one of them go south on me! It was something to do with the input jack! I just unsoldered it and swaped it with the footswitch jack which I never use, and everything is fine now!
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Again no need to bother a company on a unit which only cost a hundred bucks!
Overall Rating
:
10
These things will really improve any guitar, if you can find one buy it now!
Product: Rockman 12-band Instrument Equalizer
Price Paid: US $65
Submitted
10/22/2000
at
09:49pm
by
RJ Shaw
Email: rjshawk<at>webtv dot net
Ease of Use
:
10
Simple and effective EQ or great booster for leads. Easy to hook up(one input, one output)simple to operate.Twelve sliders and a "hot" input switch plus a bypass switch on the front panel or with a footswitch jack on the back. Easy to use as the graphic EQ on a car stereo.VERY underrated piece of gear. Can't believe nobody reviewed this yet!
Sound Quality
:
10
I have employed this EQ in amp effect loops,with many different rack preamps and a multitude of instruments. It genuinely enhances the tones of just about every setup I have used it with. It can add an intense high-end sizzle just as easily as remove it. The bass frequencies and mids are all in the perfect range for guitar. But as the name implies, it can be used with nearly all electric instruments. It is really well suited to being used with other Rockman gear. I use a Rockman XPR preamp with this unit in it's effect loop and the results are dramatic. It makes the XPR and Sustainor WAY more flexible. You can really contour the distortion of any preamp just the way you like and need it. Great sound quality and doesn't fart out with strong input signal like alot of other EQ's I have owned.I also get primo results with this in the effects loop of a 100 watt Marshall head. Using the bypass with a footswitch I can leave it off for rhythm work and kick it in for a lead boost. Sweet!Always sounds good and can make a piece of crap combo amp kick out a better sound.I could go on and on about my cloning of the Tom Scholz tones but I will spare you...suffice it to say this thing will truly "cool the engines" when combined with the XPR preamp or a Sustainor. Pure Rockman ecstacy!!Now if I could just figure out how to build that darn Hyperspace pedal...?
Reliability
:
10
This piece was built in 1988 and is still working great.Nuff' said.
Customer Support
:
8
Dunlop will fix it and all other Scholz gear for a flat rate of $50.
Though need of repair is very unlikely.The most common ailment is broken slider tips and even with them broken you can still move them with a guitar pick, pencil or whatever.
Overall Rating
:
10
Overall a wicked and tough little unit. Very versatile. The only thing better than this would be the Rockman Programmable 14 band EQ. But those are impossible to find. I never thought I'd use an outboard EQ but this thing has made me a convert.My main goal was to shape distortion sounds with this but I found that when I would switch to a clean channel it did nothing but improve the clean tones also. Without changing the sliders at all.I have a favorite "sweep" that I leave it on all the time that suits all my rock, metal, and blues playing needs.The only drawback I see is the fact that this thing is not stereo. So I hopped on Ebay and scored another for stereo use. They are always some on ebay for sale cheap.All hail Tom Scholz!! Hail! Hail!
