Boss EQ-200 uses the PSA-120S2 regulated 9.6V DC power with 500mA of current, specially designed to fuel BOSS devices for optimal sonic performance. Which means if you have an isolated power supply on your board you can use one the 9.6V cables or buy this one off a retailer such as Guitar center. :) Runs around $30 dollars. Also looks like the new firmware patch allows for 128 presets, personally will not need that many, but opens of the option to expand your EQ/set list in one pedal if you don't want to go rack mount in my humble opinion.
Tony, you have one of the very best channels on all of RU-vid. We’re incredibly fortunate to have your expertise as well as passion nudging and guiding us to better tone and better choices.
I checked out the 200 and thought it's "invisible memory" concept naff. So I bought three Behringer 7 band equalisers, each set to my desired tones and just switch between them (or sometimes combine them). All three cost me £75. And, being fully analogue, there's no latency. Result!
Thanks for the post and having choices for this gear IS important - when someone posts alternatives like this based on experience it helps guys to get a better insight in to the gear... good post and thanks for watching.
Inserting a cable to turn the pedal on has been a practice for a very long time, it's to protect draining the battery while the pedal is not in use... How can you not know that with your years of experience?
I can tell you how, unit after unit I have reviewed does NOT do that. Maybe I was selective and only chose ones without that feature :) Ha honestly, I dont even remember when I last saw a unit that worked that way... if ever. Check my pedal reviews (must be 100) and I don't believe I have one like that. The only one I can easily think of is a TC tuner... in any case... I laughed my socks off later :) Thanks for watching.
We've been watching your reviews, appreciate the effort. My son has this in pedal board. The capability to store multiple settings is an advantage over the smaller pedals. This is something he uses when switching between guitars or amplifiers. It is also very useful to switch between a rhythm and lead setting. Me, I'm old and like simplicity, but he likes the gadgets.
Yes I agree that storing the settings is a very useful feature - IMO one of the best features of the unit. And hey... thanks for watching my reviews - appreciated.
Repeat recurring statements, as I, also, love your channel. I will throw out one "pedal" that has a few EQ "models" in it, namely the Zoom MS70-CDR (OK, it's in the "multi-stomp" category). Although I would not officially declare EQ as an ambiance effect (you can never have too many EQ "effects" throughout your signal chain), I make this pseudo-connection because stereo versus mono is a very important consideration for us people out there who are crafting tones for which stereo is a requirement for ambience effects. The Zoom MD70-CDR has a few EQ effects in it, and you have to pay attention to which "models" are mono and which ones are stereo (this is a big deal). As for an EQ pedal, it is not a stereo producer, but it should be stereo through (with apt EQ frequency adjustments applied, of course). In any case, compared to some of the other EQ dedicated devices out there, I'll just quip that my MS70-CDR pedal is way more "cost effective", but with the added benefit of being stereo capable (in/out/through and, more over, stereo producing -- depending on the effect model, of course). I have no affiliation with any vendor, but I do like things that are "cost effective" (well, at least, something isn't cheap in build quality, that is).
I agree with your concern. Audio equipment should always have the specs or limitations of every input and output, marked on the case somewhere. Just like a car: "unleaded only"; "diesel"; "95 octane"; "230V/40A"; etc... I gather that manufacturers are indeed required to provide such info for AC power inlets, specifically. I'm not a huge fan of tons of government regulation, but it'd be nice if there were just a "cultural norm" that guitar gear was always expected to follow, with regard to marking inputs. Kinda like "red for right, white for left" (and yellow for composite video).
Recently someone 'picked' my review apart and insisted that I am wrong on just about everything. Thetruth is, that the PSU info is NOT on the unit, whether you find it elsewhere is a side issue, you would not have the paperwork at a gig I bet... I agree with you - it should be there no matter what, and guess what? The ZOOM G11 has it right there on the case along with a real on and off switch! :) Thanks.
When it doesn't say then they (Roland/Boss) are trying to force the consumer to buy their product instead of cheaper knockoffs. I hate it too. Keep up the great informative reviews, Tony. They are invaluable.
I've got the GE7 equaliser on my board and i can tell you it is brilliant into a tube amp. It enables you to subtly tweak the tones so that a single coil guitar can be adjusted into the same amp settings as a hum bucker, without losing any of the edge. It works superbly. Don't think I need to spend anymore on the more sophisticated version.
I can agree - and in this review I do show the GE-7 as an alternative... very good especially for he price. The EQ-200 I felt is over priced really and my current view (since the review of the IR-200) of the IR-200 is that it too is higher priced than it should be - but more on that in my ZOOM G11 review coming up soon... thanks for watching.
Great points Tony. Here's my thoughts. Not the 1st pedal that refuses to turn on without an input presented to it. Most pedals are like that unless they have a separate mini on/off slider/switch usually on the back/connector panel. It's made that way on purpose so as not to drain the battery/batteries whilst it's connected or not. For that premium price point a separate mini slider on/off should have been provided on the side or input panel unless it has a built in smart feature /timer for that. Just as a USB type "C" should have been included. The bottom line is for a little more, you can buy a complete floor processor that you can adjust the EQ parameters for each patch as well as all your effects and countless other parameters including what the expression pedal does. In stereo too on many boards now as well.
Some guys have said that, but scarily in my last 100 reviews I know of just one... the TC poly tuner... the rest certainly did not have it... I'm not a pedal guy by the day and maybe many have changed these days... could be a reason, but if that is the case then fair enough :) But this pedal operating on a pedal board off batteries would need unplugging all the time... not a great solution to save a few dollars on a switch I guess. On the floor pedal I agree, a cost effective way to get pretty decent tones these days and as the ZOOM G11 might show (I'm only part through it currently) a decent pedal for a good price. Thanks for watching and the post...
It disgusts me when companies don’t give me the specs we all want…..the power supply should always be supplied OR specified to the proper voltage *range* and current required to be sourced. I am also finding companies that will remain unnamed are not putting the sampling rate and bit depth on their digital pedals….
Yes it is frustrating. Some people simply don't care what they are actually buying, but I always like to know what it really is. The quality, components, and certainly the specs and warranty are all integral parts of the purchase and anyone that ignores those is trusting sales videos which I don't. Thanks for the post and for watching.
Great video...thank you so much for helping me save some $$. I'm an older player just taking up the guitar and some of this stuff can be very overwhelming. So easy to overspend when listening to the hype from some of these manufacturers.
I wish someone could just make the GE-7 with midrange focus and midi presets. Same small form factor. The Source Audio EQ-2 comes very close, but doesn't have the sliders. Hope they make an EQ-3 with sliders and then all the midi internals etc.
Using a MXR 108S as pre eq, this unit as post eq. 6L6 tube amp. Dunlop 5150 and Bogner Uberschall pedal, I have a Mesa Boogie Mk5 any voicing you want you can get. The ge7 was too noisy back in the day and now for me. Both eq units are quiet. I am very content with my King of Clean setup. Thank you for your review.
Don’t see an issue with the on when you plug it in. Have several pedals like that. Saves batteries. I think that is the case for all Boss pedals. At least the ones I am looking at now. I guess it may be an issue for people that may need to adjust sound levels without hearing the sound.
Well I tell ya what, I have it running on my Cioks power supply on a 9v standard setting for a few months now with no issues. I'm a metal head also so I'm really putting it through it's paces too with the extreme chugs. J/k lol!
Some IO needs to be plastic because they have to be electrically isolated from others especially when using metal housing. It's not always plastic bad metal good
I wonder what multi power supply would be good with this pedal? Like pedal power or the mxr power brick... I'm starting to build a midi pedalboard and I'm not really knowledgeable on these power bricks. I already got a strymon timeline and nightsky and I'm using an mxr mini iso for those but I wonder if it would work for this too?
Sorry to spoil your point. All boss pedals must have a cable plugged into the input to turn on. It’s a smart way to save battery power when not in use. Anyways good video.
"Simulation"??? MIDI stands for "musical instrument digital interface" and it's simply a way of communicating with one device using another device. So you can send a signal to the EQ-200 from say - a programmable, MIDI capable Effect Loop Switcher. In its loops you have a number of pedals and by stepping on a single footswitch on the Switcher you might activate a specific set of pedals while simultaneously change presets in those pedals that have MIDI, like the EQ-200. Then by stepping on another footswitch on the Switcher you activate a different set of pedals and change the presets in those with MIDI. MIDI gives you so many more options that wouldn't otherwise be possible.
When I got this pedal I was fuming initially, as I thought it was broken when it wouldn't respond to any button presses while powered up. I didn't put a guitar cable in at first 😂
Ha highly likely as some of those PSU's probably cost about $3 from what I have seen.... It's a point probably lost on many... and thanks for watching.
