Artec SE-EQ8 Graphic EQ

I took a gamble buying this EQ pedal. Initially I was looking at MXR 10band EQ and some other pedals I won't mention, but there was a day in which Thomann offered free shipping to my country, so I took a chance with it.
When I first saw it, it looked and felt really sturdy. The housing of the pedal is no joke, you can stomp on it and the switch is really really pleasant, compared to other more expensive pedals. The bands do click when you're at 0db, just not as hard as you'd be expecting, so it's easy to go over the neutral position. They also go quite high on boosting, more so than you might need for real-world application. I use it to boost mids and presence for lead sections on guitar, running through a Marshall JCM 900, it does the job perfectly. No problems whatsoever. The signal doesn't seem to be distorted when it's off, at least not from what I noticed (although I didn't investigate this thoroughly).
All in all, I recommend this pedal for your bedroom, practice or small gig playing. It will do the job and then some more, being durable and sturdy with a good switch.

A very solid feeling metal construction with a plastic backing. The EQ sliders are plastic, and very low profile, with a good amount of resistance. Seems like it would be very difficult to accidentally move them while playing. With them being so close its a bit fiddly to set them all up.

It adds adds absolutely no noise. With the sliders set neutral I cant hear any difference with the pedal on or off. It offers great tone shaping abilites, and works very well as a boost.

Currently I'm using it as a telephonic effect. I am highy considering buying more of them for boost and tone shaping. The thing is way to versitile to just have one.

There's really nothing to fault about this pedal. Structurally it's very well designed, and it doesn't seem to diminish my sound in any way.

The sliders don't protrude very high above the case which is great as it keeps them out of harms way, pretty much everything on it is made of metal and feels very solid.

The range of the EQ allows you to boost and cut frequencies enough to make a big difference, but it's still possible to make fine adjustments. I've found on other graphic EQ pedals that the range is too extreme and moving the sliders even a fraction can change the sound more than you want. They got this one just right.

Overall a great pedal, and the price is right.

This EQ does exactly what it is supposed to do. The case is made of metal and build quality seems solid. The sliders are easy to move and able to maintain their position. Also they lock when put in neutral position (except volume slider).

Unless volume is put on really high levels this eq doesn't put much noise to the signal. The bypass has almost no influence on the sound either. This pedal can be used as a boost aswell when cranking the level up although dedicated boosters might produce less noise.

As for reliability i can't say much but mine hasn't had any issues so far (bought it about one year ago).