After spending ages searching for the perfect portable mixer (never happened), I realized that for live sets, I mainly need a way to sum up a few stereo sources and a decent EQ to adjust everything to the room/PA.
So I got a simple summing mixer and was planning on running it through a portable EQ. But I can’t find a single one that fits the profile. Small, analog, if possible with sweepable mids, desktop/pedal format. So before I spend way too much money on some sort of eurorack solution in a small case, I wanted to check of anyone knows of such an EQ.
Without doing a super deep dive, I couldn’t find a good solution, as most pedals are definitely still geared towards guitarists… your best bet might be 2 Empress pedals, or a small 500 series case with 2 DBX or other para EQs in it…
It would seem that the world needs a manufacturer of stereo utility pedals for synth performers because guitarists aren’t the only ones using pedals any more.
These old Realistic Stereo EQ’s can be found cheap, Realistic 32-1106. It runs off a battery or Boss pedal style adapter. RCA jacks but you can get appropriate cables for 1/4 or 1/8 of course. FYI the 3 band faders are indented so they click at 0 dB, whether that is good or bad depends on preference.
Realistic was a brand of relatively cheap gear produced by RadioShack a couple decades ago. They’re not the highest quality devices but made some pretty cool stuff (like the Concertmate MG-1, made in conjunction with Moog).
We had Realistic here in the UK, sold at Tandy (the local trading name of RadioShack).
That obviously doesn’t guarantee those EQs were ever sold in Europe — and the model/sku was probably different — but it’s certainly possible.
