Hi Bixlmalta,
If you do not need the money I would keep my DOD EQ and buy
a Boss GE7 and see how differtly they sound, any piece of equipment will sound different, but with this approach you may end up with a lot of gear. It all depends on what you do, for a live-rig you may just want to keep things simple, but for recording-purposes you may like the pick-and- choose approach.
Perhaps you should consider buying a parametric EQ, they are more subtle than the graphic's. They are able to boost just one particular part of the frequency spectrum you may want[or cut the undesired ones if you like].Less flexable than a graphic but very simple to use. Yamaha does one which is called the NE1, and originally it is designed for bass, but as with so many of these products, it will work on anything.
To stay on the "pedal thing", in this thread I have heard many positive things about the Boss Metal Zone, it is an eq-pedal and therefore will take a little longer to get a happening tone. There is another pedal out there which is a copy of the Boss, and it is a lot cheaper and nearly as good.The pedal is done by AXL and it is the DEQ2. It does not have the small sub knobs of the Metal Zone, and is therefore more comfy on the fingers. Here is AXL's website:
www.axlusa.com They are a relativly new comp. but I think there stuff is fine.
Just another one if you do not mind: About the TubeSrceamer front: I know about
the TS9 and
the TS9 Turbo and the reissue TS808, but what are the TS10 and TS5 which some of you have mentioned?
An "overlooked" pedal is
the Boss OD3, it is not as clean as a TS808, but has a much wider range than the SD1. With a parametric behind it you could turn the OD3 easily into a TS808. I like the idea of pedals being able to clone each other, shows you that it is all about gain and frequencies......
Eddie de Timmerman