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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Onboard Active Equalization

>Hi Andrew .Im a newbie with a spector legend6 Its got
>a tone pump jr 2band active eq with 2 pots .i really
>dont now how to work it i just fiddle with it till it
>sounds good .How do it really work ? D.

Hi D.,
I'm not familiar with your bass so I don't know if the two pots are bass and treble (more common) or level and curve controls (if it's a parametric eq).
If it's the former, then you use it just like any other bass and treble controls. In my experience active tone controls are pretty radical. On my basses with active eq I tend to leave them flat(no gain or cut).
If it's the latter, then you use one control to determine the center point of your eq curve and the other control to cut or boost around that frequency. I think it's unlikely this is what you have though.
Hope this helps,
Andy

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