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Haven't tried it yet, but assured it was working last it was powered on.
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Cool!

I almost bought one when they were a current model but the huge size and lack of foot control put me off. I ended up with a GE-7.

Nice! I'd be interested in hearing your opinion about it. I've been on the fence about buying one of these for years.

The lack of a foot switch always put me off.

The GE-10 has a "remote" jack. The remote jack simply needs a SPST latching footswitch in a small housing and it will work 100%. Won't affect the tone - it controls a FET switching circuit just like the flip-flop does in a compact pedal.

Or if you don't mind a bit of metal adjustment... install an SPST latching footswitch where the slide switch is.

Cool, what's the normal/eq switch for?

Dirk wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 12, 2022 5:30 pm

Cool, what's the normal/eq switch for?

It's the 'bypass' for EQ/No EQ. It would be a foot activated switch on most any other pedal.

laurie wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 12, 2022 4:22 pm

The GE-10 has a "remote" jack. The remote jack simply needs a SPST latching footswitch in a small housing and it will work 100%. Won't affect the tone - it controls a FET switching circuit just like the flip-flop does in a compact pedal.

Or if you don't mind a bit of metal adjustment... install an SPST latching footswitch where the slide switch is.

It's interesting that it has a finger slide switch on the chassis and remote switch capability. It's almost like they expected it to live in a rack shelf!

Full recondition is now finished.

Years ago (20+ from the aged look of the solder) there were some quick-and-dirty repairs to the circuit board, and the LED legs had been bent until they broke, plus someone had removed the fuse.

Fixed all that - did a proper repair to the circuit board (It was a small crack that had broken a couple of tracks), replaced the pig-tail fuse. Plus replaced a couple of wires the previous repairer had burned with their soldering iron, cleaned the switches and jacks, cleaned and lubed the sliders, gave the housing a good clean, and it is functionally good-as-new.

Some opinions:
- The EQ frequencies feel good. The overall utility of the pedal is good. The 10-band graphic is useful.
- There is almost no noise.
- Phase distortion is good (often a problem with graphic EQ).

I didn't try switching it "like a pedal" with the external footswitch, but I'm sure that works just fine.

I can recommend it as a good pedal. And "built like a tank".

Another great find.

I too bought a "junk" one of these a few months back (simply old and rusty). I find it to have a very nice preamp type "warm" sound, and indeed very noise free. I didn't know about that remote jack tbh, I'll check that out. Somewhat forgotten box but like most AC units I find they sound fnatastic.

Famous for Malmsteen fans I believe, great for pushing a tweaking a Marshall. May also have been used by EVH similar era?