Ultimate "dirt pedal" kit from BYOC??

[piebaldpython***]

Wow.......what a pedal. Can you explain the 3-way Mid-Q switch a bit and how it helps your tone? Did you find it useful or just fluff?

[duhvoodooman***]

Can you explain the 3-way Mid-Q switch a bit and how it helps your tone? Did you find it useful or just fluff?

Sure can, and there's no "fluff" about it. AAMOF, it's one of my favorite features of the pedal!

The mids control is parametric--it uses the M.Freq pot to set the frequency center-point for the mids control (gain) pot, and the Mid Q toggle switch to select the width of the frequency band (narrow, wide, or in-between) that the mids control pot affects. If you've never used a pedal with parametric frequency controls, this may be kind of hard to visualize, but it gives you some really cool tone-shaping flexibility that standard tone stacks just can't do. Say for instance, your guitar's overdriven tone is competing in the mid-range of the mix with some other instrument; with a standard mids control, you could make your mids louder, but the interference with the other instrument is still there. Using a parametric control, you could shift the frequency center-point of the mids control up or down to give a better separation of the two tones. You could also play with the effective width (Q) of the control pot to see if you can bring the tone "forward" some more. Conversely, you could also use the control to roll the mids off in a particular frequency range to give a desired "scooped" tone.

You might find this YouTube video useful in understanding parametric EQ concepts: