parametric eq multiband *urgent*

[fishkarma]

hi lads i just spent 4 days mastering a cd for collage that i have to apply to in a few days time on the equim demo which mutes its output in the mixdown

i need a multiband parametric eq urgently but i have no cash does anyone know where i can get a free one??????

youd be saving my life if you did!!!!

oh yeah it has to be a mac compatible one as an audio unit (AU)


cheers
-josh

[herodotus]

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1120.html

[fishkarma]

hey thanks! but i need an AU plug in or a converter for this any ideas!!!

[Frippertronix]

Doesn't your host have one?

[Frippertronix]

This looks like your best bet, but it is closer to Firium than Equium, since it is linear phase. It isn't paragraphic, but it is graphic with many bands, so maybe you can come pretty close to what you had.

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1127.html

[fishkarma]

thats a VST I need an AU (audio unit) pulg in

"Doesn't your host have one?"
do you mean garage band?? it has a 1 band parametric but thats no good i need at min 3 bands

******though it needs to be an AU PLUG-IN*************

(not shouting caps so people will notice!!!)

or if any one knows of a free converter for a VST

[AD80]

Maybe you can chain 3 of Garageband's EQ's in a row. Then use one for the low's, one for mids, and one for highs.

[fishkarma]

cant only allows 2 effects and i need to use a limiter allowing for one parametric

damn some day ill be able to get protools......

[AD80]

damn some day ill be able to get protools......

I think if you got pro tools then you'd be looking for a free RTAS parametric which is even harder to find.

[Colonel Flashback]

maybe you could use a Windows emulator running energyXT and a free Win VST EQ? I know nothing about Macs though so sorry if that's a stupid idea...

[meister eder]

You should have access to the standard Apple AU plugins in Garageband. There is a nice and quite good sounding 31 band graphic EQ among them (and a variety of parametric and shelf EQs as well). You can draw an EQ curve on the graphic EQ when you hold down the Alt-key. Since you said you need a limiter as well, there is also a limiter in the Apple AU collection.
Btw. the name of the 5 band EQ (low shelf/high pass, 3x parametric, high shelf/low pass) is a bit misleading: It's called AUFilter.

If you don't have access to the Apple AUs (in case you are running an older system and not Tiger), and the equim EQ mutes its output only during mixdown, but not during playback, then another solution would be to go to http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/, download the free version of WireTap and use it to record the output of Garageband. Very easy and simple and no loss in audio quality, as it internally records everything that would go to your audio output.
I don't know though if this would infringe the license agreement for the equim demo...

Then again, if the equim demo silences its output only at random times, and these random times are at different points in each mixdown, then you could do several mixdowns and then cut them together, i.e. replace a silence of one mixdown with signal from another mixdown. If you keep the level the same in each mixdown and the tracks have no random modulation effects on them, then you should be able to do hard cuts without problem of clicks.
Again, I don't know though if this would infringe the license agreement for the equim demo...

[Teksonik]

hi lads i just spent 4 days mastering a cd for collage

What kind of "College" doesn't teach spelling and only uses Garage Band?

[meister eder]

Then again, if the equim demo silences its output only at random times, and these random times are at different points in each mixdown, then you could do several mixdowns and then cut them together, i.e. replace a silence of one mixdown with signal from another mixdown. If you keep the level the same in each mixdown and the tracks have no random modulation effects on them, then you should be able to do hard cuts without problem of clicks.
Again, I don't know though if this would infringe the license agreement for the equim demo...

Out of curiosity I just downloaded the demo and tried that. You can use that technique, since the silence gaps are at different points in time on each mixdown/rendering.
So do two mixdowns, put them on two tracks, zoom in and search for the silence gaps. Whenever there is a gap in one mixdown, cut both files at exactly the same points around the gap and do as I wrote above.
I also quickly went through the (short) license agreement, and it doesn't forbid you to do that, as long as you consider your college CD mastering as part of the evaluation of the software. Dicide for yourself if that's the case.

[naturestoned]

this VST to AU Adapter might help.
http://www.fxpansion.com/product-auadapter-main.php

[fishkarma]

i am running on OS10.3
meister eder: the AUfilter isn't there, i just checked.
i already knew of the limiter and have been using it hence only have one place i can use for the parametric

heres a few questions
if you have that filter why dosnt my garage band have it?
is there any where on the net i can get just that AU?
would it be because i am on garage band 1?
also is equim the reason why it sounded like it skipped on parts occasionally?

cheers man your a saint

Note:
"What kind of "College" doesn't teach spelling and only uses Garage Band? "

its to apply for collage, as for the spelling mistake well im dyslexic, so i dont care!