Heya,

Seems there's heaps of compressors and EQs with lovely graphic displays and meters and curves and colours...

Does anyone know of any *good* compressors and EQs that have minimal graphic feedback? As in: 'just the knobs' (or close to it). And preferably not zillions of knobs either... Any ideas?

-Kim.

In Reaper there's a way to turn the GUI off on any plugin. Not sure if that helps you or not.

Sorry, I use Cubase. It's got a similar 'parameters only' view, but a bit flat list of parameters is just as difficult to use.

-Kim.

About half way down there are two versions of the knob only Noname EQ:

http://www.savioursofsoul.de/Christian/vst-plugins/eqs-filte rs/

These EQ's have color coded knobs but other than that, no graph and a pretty clean interface:

http://www.j1000.in.rs/

There's also the very basic GUI off the Dust EQ:

http://www.signaldust.com/

The GUI on the excellent DCAM Freecomp is quite minimal:

http://www.fxpansion.com/index.php?page=185&tab=443

BTW, I don't know how many of these are available for Mac. I use PC and you didn't specify.

The info on this"30 best EQs" page might help:

http://getthatprosound.com/30-of-the-best-eq-plugins-in-the- world/

Peace,
Andy.

Also, Vlad G's Limiter 6 has a plain line-drawing black & white GUI version. Limiter 6 can function as a compressor, and is worth having anyway because it is pretty durn cool.

http://vladgsound.wordpress.com/downloads/

Stillwell's stuffs via reaJS
I like 1175 and rbj1073

Edit: Got the wrong end of the minimal feedback GUI stick
Last edited by Dean Aka Nekro on Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:00 pm; edited 1 time in total

Dean, he was specifically asking for EQ's without graphs and plug-ins with minimal visual feedback, no fancy GUI's etc.

Ah right my bad on not getting the question. As you mention Limiter6's original draft GUI above A.M.Gold I think I've got it now, Cheers for that and on my part. I'll edit my intial post also. Nice one

Dean

NP

His question is a little boxed-in because he doesn't want to go GUI-less by switching to the host-GUI in Cubase. Honestly, that would also have been my first suggestion if you want to go "blind" with a plug-in.

The former Kjaerhus Classic series has a bunch of little knob only GUI plug-ins, including a good compressor, but I'm not sure it's possible to legally get a hold of those anymore.

Eiosis' AirEQ is a great "use your ears not your eyes" EQ.
I'm having a tough time thinking of any compressors that don't at least have gain reduction meter.

D2 is an all-rounder compressor with an easy to use interface.

http://www.delamancha.co.uk/D2.htm

Also PSP oldTimer

http://www.pspaudioware.com/plugins/dynamic_processors/psp_o ldtimerme/

Use izotope ozone or alloy and just turn the meters off. It's what I do.