As I said, there are much better options IMO. I know it's hard to back off a product when it looks like the right pick. I felt the same way, the 6 bands were a solid unit at the price point and even served well in (slightly) more demanding applications without adding anything unpleasant. Their parameters were quite useable, the sliders responsive and while not completely noiseless, it was close enough for any live situation and a few studio bits as well.
Check out this video that demonstrated the Whirlwind Bass Ten 10-band graphic EQ, an pro-quality EQ in stomp-box form. How to set bass EQ settings on a bass amp - Duration: 4:57. A natural part of the EQ process is mixing against the other instruments and compression and gating is another tool you can use to do that. As you can see, the bass guitar has a wide range of frequencies that are used and you have a lot you can do with them.
The ten band was too noisy and fizzy to be practical in any of my application(s), even just playing at home alone, I couldn't fit it in with a Tweed and any type of single coils. In or out of the loop.
I s'pose if you're in strictly med to high gain territory you may not notice it, but I did. Click to expand.Perhaps I don't understand your question. There are two additional controls on the ten band (than the 6), one for gain one for level.
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I set it up, generally as I did with the 6 band, adding the additional frequency parameters. I set the level (volume) at unity. I also didn't use it to increase gain, I set it up at unity, then tried cutting both volume and gain, together and one at a time (because of the noise). I removed it and replaced it with the 6 band again, noted the freq settings, reinstalled the 10 band, copied the freq settings (again, adding the 'extra' 4), this time careful with the upper freqs because of the fizz.Not sure how else I could have set up it up 'properly'? In this case it's used to augment the single Tone control on my tweed.
Since you originally asked about the noise, I thought that's what you wanted to hear about. Hey if you like it, buy it, but it didn't work for me and the others did.Either way, I went to the Empress Para EQ or a Dtar head top unit on that rig and am much happier.