Caline USA, CP-24 10-Band EQ equalizer Guitar Effects pedal

So I have been playing for years, and I've gone through the struggle of finding a pleasant tone and going through more amps than I ever have guitars or other instruments. With an eq pedal, it makes finding that sweet spot so much easier, and can effectively make a crap amp sound alright. This unit in particular has the range to even tweak 8 string guitars and bass, pre, or post effects and distortion and it hasn't popped. For the price it's well worth it. I'm angry that these pedals exist and are so cheap and I just now bought one after over 18 years of playing. Stellar pedal. No operating issues, plastic is a bit chinsey but if you're mounting it on a pedal board I don't see a problem arising. OH! AND BTW! the gain slider on this pedal is powered gain with boost rather than just a volume slider, so you can boost your signal as well as tweak your tone.

When I ordered this EQ pedal I asked myself “how good could it really be and after having it to hand for a few months I can happily say I woefully underestimated it. I’m mostly an at home player and having the level of sound shaping this pedal provides is incredibly beneficial when playing thru practice amps with smaller speakers or at lower volumes. I’ve always found 1x8 combo amplifiers to sound really boxy and dull and although that issue has improved with today’s modeling amps, having this pedal in the chain is a game changer. It works great with both clean and distorted tones with little adjustment in between. It’s larger than a Boss EQ pedal but it’s way more versatile and fits well on a board especially if you’re willing to mount it sideways. The lighted sliders are very nice to have too. Recommended!

Great for the value. Good tone and nice boost. Not as nice as the MXR 10 band but close enough. In my area, all the MXR brand EQs seem to be put through hazing rituals and forced to work in coal mines before being sold on the second hand market. So the price of this EQ is very appealing amd you grt a clean, new pedal. Has a little hiss that a noise gate will solve. For the price, you can get a cheap gate and this eq and still be less than the MXR 10 band and sound great. Does seem to work better for bass than guitar. Maybe I missed that in the description though.

There are a lot of cheap EQ pedals on the market, and most of them work just fine. But I opted for this Caline model because: (a) I have other Caline pedals and appreciate their value and build quality; (b) I wanted one with a master volume/gain control; (c) I wanted one affordable enough that I didn't have to feel sick about breaking if I used it improperly. I got the CP-24 primarily to use with my guitar amp - it's excellent in the effects loop, where you can most purely impact EQ frequencies without then feeding those into a preamp, which itself has its own tone stack. You can also use it as a volume attenuator - set up your amp for the tone you want at any volume, and then roll back the gain using this EQ pedal in the FX loop. Works great for home/apartment practicing! Guitar frequencies are more narrowly focused than this, and most frequencies below the 100Hz level are below what the guitar actually puts out. So you don't "need" a 10 band EQ, per se, but having one gives you more precise control. For example: maybe you want to boost mids, but really want to boost LOWER-mids, as opposed to a Tubesceamer-like effect. The CP-24 allows you to do that. I also want it because I could see using it with bass, synths, and other gear that much work more in a full range of frequencies. The pedal itself is built very well, though I wouldn't put a lot of stress on the 11 slider knobs, which are plastic and could break off if rest or drop other things on top of it. The CP-24 is a great affordable option if you want a 10-band EQ and can't afford something like the MXR version.

I couldn’t use it in my rig because it was so noisy. Too noisy both in front of the amp and in the loop. There are much quieter EQ pedals out there.

I bought this for my acoustic bass guitar, which I just started playing at my church. Sort of helpless feeling on tone, as I am used to managing an aggressive electric tone with a giant tube amp and cabinet and pedal board. So playing acoustic through the PA alone is a different experience for me, and this single pedal brings it under control. The difficulty has been managing the tone, as the PA's mixer is a pretty good one, but certainly doesn't have a 10-band EQ for every channel. That means that if the guitars are mixed correctly, the bass sounds tinny, and managing this with my preamp knobs on the instrument just creates a woofy sound that's uneven across the strings, muddy E string, bouncy G string. With this cheap pedal, I can correct the EQ on my channel, to some degree controlling the tone for each string, thus separating my feed into the PA from the guitars. It still goes through the mixer's board, yes, but it's a corrective that is precise, unlike my preamp or a smaller 6-band pedal.

I decided to get this over the much more expensive name pedals to keep the cost of my sound board down to a minimum. The first time I hooked this up it buzzed like a fridge but it turned out to be a ground loop issue with my cheap non-isolated power supply. I switched over to a really pricey fully isolated pedal supply and it sounds amazing! I was able to shape the output of my Traveller bass to sound a lot more like my p-bass humbucker pick-ups before going in to a compressor and ampeg amp modelling pedal. The resulting tone is amazing. Without the equalizer with the piazzo bridge pick-up the highs were over bright and the mid and low ranges were thin. After shaping the sound and compressing it I was able to bring the sound to the level where the low, mid, and high knobs on the ampeg pedal was able to finish the job without any noticable hiss or hum. It was exactly what my pedal board needed to make my little bass sound like a big bass. My only concern was the sliders. While it looks cool I'm worried I could break one. The other issue is it's a wide pedal so it takes a lot of pedal board real estate. Other than that I'm really happy with this purchase.

No dislikes, a tiny knock would be the 9V DC adapter. It's just a 9V plug with a tail-in to the EQ. I used power cords also from Caline. Let me tell you! I have owned BOSS and DOD eqs, Digitech, and used many rack systems over the years, and none has had such a deep effect on tone as this inexpensive little box. Each band makes sweeping changes, and each band has a tremendous effect on your sound. Works best wired in an effects loop but is also fun run to your line in as a gain booster pedal for a tube amp. Works just like a tube screamer with less noise. In short, there's no reason not to use this in your setup. Ditch the rack, ditch the expensive and noisy pedals, and but this now!