Your thoughts on the MXR 6 Band EQ Old Blue Box

[Tread]

Thoughts?

 

[hell toupee]

A friend of mine has that one and it runs on battery only, no ac jack. That's the only issue I have with it as I don't use batteries.

 

[fr8_trane]

I have one if you're interested. No thoughts as I've never used it.

 

[Joe Silence]

a friend of mine had one in front of his dirty amp in the 80s.

as stated above, no AC jack. also a little hissy, but then he used two of the freq centres for some big mid boosts.

 

[Tread]

I have one if you're interested. No thoughts as I've never used it.

I have one of the first run. I like it .... pm me, I'm interested if your willing to sell it. What year (or there abouts is it ? )

 

[Tread]

a friend of mine had one in front of his dirty amp in the 80s.

as stated above, no AC jack. also a little hissy, but then he used two of the freq centres for some big mid boosts.

Yeah I found a way to get around the "Hiss" that they are known for.

 

[Canon]

I liked it better than the mxr 10-band, but I recently got a Fromel which sounds better to me, on cleans that is.
A better application may be, as mentioned above, achieving a mid-boosted dirt sound. Some of the older ones were hissy, I know some of the caps were replaced in mine.

 

[Tread]

If you put an ancient first run MXR Micro Amp in front of it .... the hiss is gone. Cancels it somehow. Go figure.

 

[rah3]

MXR made replacement bottom plates that allowed to flat cable to go to the battery for use with a MXR 9V supply.

- RAH3

 

[rah3]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-MXR-Envelope-Filter-s-n-012574-Has-Rare-9v-1-4-Bottom-Plate-/140698504138?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item20c248cbca Here is a pic of the plate. I had a bunch of these plates back in the day. NOTE * Not affiliated with this auction. Just grabbed the URL for the picture of the adapter plate.

-RAH3