@@WokeUpScreaming definitely the mid bump for lower stuff. The key on this pedal is finding the sweet spot with the boost and deciding if you need more gain before the EQ.
The earliest version of the old LPB-1 plugged into your guitar, not your amp (as long as your guitar had a flat input jack). You could flip the little black switch on for solos. This LPB-3 looks like a cool pedal.
@@jakollee the guitar? I would be curious to know how long it was like that before they switched it. It makes more sense to me to have it last in the chain before the amp. Not to mention having it hanging from the jack would be less than ideal. But it also makes sense that if you were looking for a volume boost easily switched by hand to have it near the guitar.
@@BaritoneGoatStudio I think they were first made around 1968. I would’ve gotten my first one in the early 70s. I’m having trouble finding confirmation that the early ones went into your guitar input jack, but I swear mine did. I had recordings of performances where you could hear the little “pop” sound when I turned it on for a solo or off after a solo, and I may have a photo of myself with it sticking out of my guitar (ES-335 with input jack on the front so the LPB-1 stuck out, didn’t hang down, and I could access the switch). And I remember when something happened to my first one, I bought another but was annoyed to find it now had to be plugged into the amp, not the guitar, so you had to leave it on all the time.
Ehx have always been clever with what they do. The circuits are great, the lower price comes from the cheap knobs and enclosure. If that bothers you, get it rehoused.
@@pedrolourenco2707 I like a running full parametric EQ in my loop! Pepers Pedals just released one I want to try. I usually like to run a gate in my loop too, but my Mesa’a all have parallel loops. So, noise gates won’t work between the pre and power sections.
I just ordered one to push my MIG 50 because I wanted more control over shaping my tone than the LPB1 offered. Would you say it’s a good boost pedal for doom? Seems like it tightens everything up and I want my tone to be as loose as a wizard’s sleeve.
It doesn’t have to tighten things. I ran the bass control at 0. You can also push or cut more mids and widen the Q to affect more of the frequencies. With the pre gain circuit up, you can almost get more of a fuzz like effect. There is a lot of playability with the controls.
@@thelegendofglenn it has more headroom, and if there is something about the LPB-1 that is causing a weird frequency you don’t like, you would be able to possibly tweak it. If you are running another pedal with a clipping or transistor circuit already, it might not give you more than just a pre EQ, but if you are looking for a little more dirt on the front end it offers that pre gain function as well. If you like what the LPB-1 is doing, but need more control, it is probably worth having. Otherwise you could go the route of getting a 7 or 10 band EQ. I just find myself over-tweaking my tone if given too many options sometimes. Are you running an original sovtek or do you have the EHX reissue?
@@BaritoneGoatStudio I’m running the reissue. I’m using it as a pedal platform in channel 1 and I’m running a RAT into a Sovtek Deluxe and then into my 2x12 loaded with Swamp Thangs. The more I think on it the more I feel like the LPB1, let alone the LPB3, is overkill but since the MIG is extremely loud and doesn’t break up until about 9 o’clock (plus it doesn’t have a gain knob) I wanted to get a little more dirt from it on the front end. I just want the sound to be as huge as possible and my response to that has always been get as much low end and mids in there as I can without sounding too muddy.
Been waiting for a proper demo of this pedal since it was announced!!! That mid bump sounds like it will be so good for 8 strings etc. Great demo!
@@WokeUpScreaming definitely the mid bump for lower stuff. The key on this pedal is finding the sweet spot with the boost and deciding if you need more gain before the EQ.
The earliest version of the old LPB-1 plugged into your guitar, not your amp (as long as your guitar had a flat input jack). You could flip the little black switch on for solos. This LPB-3 looks like a cool pedal.
@@jakollee the guitar? I would be curious to know how long it was like that before they switched it. It makes more sense to me to have it last in the chain before the amp. Not to mention having it hanging from the jack would be less than ideal. But it also makes sense that if you were looking for a volume boost easily switched by hand to have it near the guitar.
@@BaritoneGoatStudio I think they were first made around 1968. I would’ve gotten my first one in the early 70s. I’m having trouble finding confirmation that the early ones went into your guitar input jack, but I swear mine did. I had recordings of performances where you could hear the little “pop” sound when I turned it on for a solo or off after a solo, and I may have a photo of myself with it sticking out of my guitar (ES-335 with input jack on the front so the LPB-1 stuck out, didn’t hang down, and I could access the switch). And I remember when something happened to my first one, I bought another but was annoyed to find it now had to be plugged into the amp, not the guitar, so you had to leave it on all the time.
Ehx have always been clever with what they do. The circuits are great, the lower price comes from the cheap knobs and enclosure. If that bothers you, get it rehoused.
That looks like a powerful shaping tool. Nice.
It's a very powerful pedal!
I like it.
most important thing: noise floor?! Otherwise I rather use an EQ ;)
@@pedrolourenco2707 I like a running full parametric EQ in my loop! Pepers Pedals just released one I want to try. I usually like to run a gate in my loop too, but my Mesa’a all have parallel loops. So, noise gates won’t work between the pre and power sections.
I just ordered one to push my MIG 50 because I wanted more control over shaping my tone than the LPB1 offered.
Would you say it’s a good boost pedal for doom?
Seems like it tightens everything up and I want my tone to be as loose as a wizard’s sleeve.
It doesn’t have to tighten things. I ran the bass control at 0. You can also push or cut more mids and widen the Q to affect more of the frequencies. With the pre gain circuit up, you can almost get more of a fuzz like effect. There is a lot of playability with the controls.
@@BaritoneGoatStudio in that case would you say it’s worth it over the LPB1 for something like doom?
@@thelegendofglenn it has more headroom, and if there is something about the LPB-1 that is causing a weird frequency you don’t like, you would be able to possibly tweak it. If you are running another pedal with a clipping or transistor circuit already, it might not give you more than just a pre EQ, but if you are looking for a little more dirt on the front end it offers that pre gain function as well. If you like what the LPB-1 is doing, but need more control, it is probably worth having. Otherwise you could go the route of getting a 7 or 10 band EQ. I just find myself over-tweaking my tone if given too many options sometimes. Are you running an original sovtek or do you have the EHX reissue?
@@BaritoneGoatStudio I’m running the reissue. I’m using it as a pedal platform in channel 1 and I’m running a RAT into a Sovtek Deluxe and then into my 2x12 loaded with Swamp Thangs.
The more I think on it the more I feel like the LPB1, let alone the LPB3, is overkill but since the MIG is extremely loud and doesn’t break up until about 9 o’clock (plus it doesn’t have a gain knob) I wanted to get a little more dirt from it on the front end.
I just want the sound to be as huge as possible and my response to that has always been get as much low end and mids in there as I can without sounding too muddy.