Yeah and no... But I think you make the defining definition with your last statement.sfxsound3 wrote:...there are no 'mastering' EQs, sorry. The term was cooked way back when to make 'mastering' seem important. Now - any capable EQ can do the job.
Yeah it is a kind of a phrase that was cooked up, but then, there are some prerequisites you more or less need. You don't have to have, but it is quite important for the mastering end of things.
So, since there are desirable prerequisites and these are things not every eq has, than we could actually allude to referring to these types of eqs as "mastering eqs." Eqs that are equiped with many of the desirable features required for mastering.
So, want are the defining features...
Minimal phase interaction or
Linear phase
Transparency,
Gain adjustments of 0.5dB or less
Oversampling, perhaps
But then, sometimes you just want to put a bid dirty Pultec on the chain and that qualifies for NONE of these points. Although, that's possible because it's serving a different purpose.