KVR Audio

scuzzphut · Post by **scuzzphut** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:22 am

I currently have two EQs in my plugins folder. THe CM Studio Spin EQ and the LPGEq.

These are both great and do their job well.

What I am missing, though is an insert EQ for the mundane jobs like cutting out the sub-100Hz from a guitar track or adding a wee bit of top to he hats.

What I am looking for, therefore, is a minimal EQ, with extremely low CPU usage. I'm thinking of maybe a 2-band parametric at the most.

Any ideas people ?

verstaerker · Post by **verstaerker** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:34 am

UAD-1 Pultec Pro is my EQ for everything

griels · Post by **griels** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:39 am

About a minimalist EQ, no idea.. But I'm astonished you don't have NyquistEQ installed. It's pretty much the only EQ I use.

Tonmann · Post by **Tonmann** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:47 am

scuzzphut wrote:What I am looking for, therefore, is a minimal EQ, with extremely low CPU usage. I'm thinking of maybe a 2-band parametric at the most.

Most of the time I use the good old Cakewalk ParametricEQ for such tasks.

cheers,
Chris

erminardi · Post by **erminardi** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:52 am

verstaerker wrote:UAD-1 Pultec Pro is my EQ for everything

Agree, every thing passed through Pultec (I don't have "Pro" version, but is enough...) sounds amazing

And for more accurancy: Sonalksis SV-517 stereo EQ (native), for me better than Universal Audio's Cambridge (DSP powered).
Sonalksis is the best sounding EQ I've heard

is not properly free but it worth...

scamme · Post by **scamme** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:52 am

griels wrote:About a minimalist EQ, no idea.. But I'm astonished you don't have NyquistEQ installed. It's pretty much the only EQ I use.

Why, you can't see the frequencies?

griels · Post by **griels** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:54 am

scamme wrote:
griels wrote:About a minimalist EQ, no idea.. But I'm astonished you don't have NyquistEQ installed. It's pretty much the only EQ I use.
Why, you can't see the frequencies?

Because it's smooth and transparent as hell and has a nice intuitive means of drawing EQ curves... And you can figure out what frequencies are what with a bit of research

Of course it would be nice to have numbers but I just rely on memory and my ears (foolishly on both counts, perhaps)...

Quaternion · Post by **Quaternion** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:09 am

scuzzphut wrote:What I am missing, though is an insert EQ for the mundane jobs like cutting out the sub-100Hz from a guitar track or adding a wee bit of top to he hats.

What I am looking for, therefore, is a minimal EQ, with extremely low CPU usage. I'm thinking of maybe a 2-band parametric at the most.

I recommend Sonalksis EQ. It's very versatile offering different EQ characteristics and you can also switch individual bands on/off to save CPU power.

Also I love its sound.

scamme · Post by **scamme** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:10 am

griels wrote:
scamme wrote:
griels wrote:About a minimalist EQ, no idea.. But I'm astonished you don't have NyquistEQ installed. It's pretty much the only EQ I use.
Why, you can't see the frequencies?
Because it's smooth and transparent as hell and has a nice intuitive means of drawing EQ curves... And you can figure out what frequencies are what with a bit of research Of course it would be nice to have numbers but I just rely on memory and my ears (foolishly on both counts, perhaps)...

I guess for shaping EQ it's wonderful plug but in the mixing area is pretty useless (just my opinion).

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:16 am

I use Nyquist as well. When I use a parametric EQ I search with my ears for the band where it does the job anyway, and the advantage of seeing the actual frequency is marginal. With Nyquist I focus on what it sounds like, which is more useful than knowing the numbers...

edit: Also, with Nyquist I find myself subtracting more than I do with a graphic or even parametric EQ. For some reason... And my brain says that's not a bad idea. When my brain and my ears agree I'm happy.

griels · Post by **griels** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:24 am

scamme wrote:
I guess for shaping EQ it's wonderful plug but in the mixing area is pretty useless (just my opinion).

Why? Surely its as useless/useful as your memory? I've learnt pretty much where each frequency band is.

jekyll · Post by **jekyll** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:41 am

Wave Arts TrackPlug. 32 tracks with TrackPlug on each. Hardly a sigh from cpu.
http://www.wavearts.com/TrackPlug.html

Just noticed this while scrolling thru topics
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1224936

scamme · Post by **scamme** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:43 am

It might also depend on a working technic. I can not mix without seeing the bands.

Rellik · Post by **Rellik** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:47 am

My day-to-day EQ is the one that comes on each Mixer channel in FL Studio - it's an awesome little 3-band parametric graphical EQ. Since it's on every channel anyway, I use it, and it always does the job.

I don't know of anything like that in VST form, though.

it's so diminutive and yet it's basically perfect... 3 bands is more than enough for most applications (it can do two roll-offs and a boost at the same time... what more do you need?)

tetraplan · Post by **tetraplan** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:53 am

Usually, I use navive ones -SParamEQ or the Sonar one- but if it has to be surgical, I use CurveEQ, which isn't exactly a "minimal" EQ.

Groet, Erik

What is your day-to-day EQ ?