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exxxy · Post by **exxxy** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:08 pm

sorry to be so boring and just repeat what others have said .... but IIEQ Pro is really impressive - great sound, simple, easy to use

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:12 pm

aMUSEd wrote:
HobbyCore wrote:

_amazing_ eq.
Surely that has got to be a rebadged Sonnox??

It has been with DP for some time though, maybe masterworks was in cahoots with sony??

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:12 pm

There are several, actually, each with very distinct strengths.
- The best allrounder for me is the Duende SSL, sounds great for almost everything, reacts and feels like the EQ on a good hardware desk
- If all I need is to globally change basic character a bit, Pultec / Pro is hard to beat, sounds so smooth and natural it's scary
- For surgical operations (mostly cutting) it's Cambridge, the C4 EQ is also very good
- The UAD Neve EQs are fantastic, too - they'd get more use here if the GUI wouldn't have those concentric knobs, so I often tend to use the generic GUI
- a very interesting, great sounding EQ is Bootsie's BootEQ, hope I'll find the time over the next weeks to fathom it out a bit more, could well become a mainstay afaics now
- a bit esoteric but might be just the ticket when all else fails is Voxengo Overtone EQ, helped me save an electric bass track that was recorded without any overtones, made it at least useable. The player was impressed. For a great sound he would simply have had to rerecord it - oh well ...

- and finally an often overlooked ugly duckling, the free Classic EQ
Only a simple graphic EQ but sounds really good if you only want some global sound changes
Ymmv for sure,
susiwong

bailees7irish · Post by **bailees7irish** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:14 pm

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:16 pm

Sonalksis 517 is definitely the "go to" for me

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:20 pm

bailees7irish wrote:1973

+1 to 1973

taijiguy · Post by **taijiguy** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:39 pm

There are a few EQs sitting in my VST folder, but I can never find a reason to use them. Same with compressors/limiters.

pattonfreak1 · Post by **pattonfreak1** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:09 pm

ReaFir
Electri-Q
and my personal fave:
NoName EQ

metamorphosis · Post by **metamorphosis** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:17 pm

IIR's eq is my go-to, but he has - as far as I know - decided not to officially release it, as yet.
m@

bailees7irish · Post by **bailees7irish** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:19 pm

taijiguy wrote:There are a few EQs sitting in my VST folder, but I can never find a reason to use them.

mandt · Post by **mandt** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:25 pm

BootEQ. I need nothing else.

Head Noise · Post by **Head Noise** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:28 pm

I love the stock Ableton EQ to death. I don't know how I've lived without it all these years

Audio~Geek · Post by **Audio~Geek** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:41 pm

ApEQ is brilliant and no one ever talks about it.

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:03 am

yeah, ApEQ is really a great swiss army knife EQ. I also go to SV-517mk2 or AirEQ. Those are my three main EQs.

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:12 am

HobbyCore wrote:
VitaminD wrote:..besides DP is for Mac only.. from older posts it appears the OP (unless things have changed recently) is using a windows box..
The OP didn't phrase his request very carefully. The title is 'what is your goto EQ', in the beginning post he doesn't mention his platform and hopes we can give him suggestions.

I answered the thread title since the first post didn't make any logical sense to me.

If you look through a few of his older posts you'll see hes commenting on windows-only plugins.. so I figured it was a safe bet to say hes using a windows based computer.

What is your go to EQ?