What is your go to EQ?

[jimbob]

Yeah, no problems here. The worst thing that happens is every now and then I open a project and there is a Tritone plugin sounding the "demo chime" and acting like it is not registered. I just have to disable the plugin in Reaper and re-enable it and everything's fine. This happens maybe once a month and I use them daily. Reaper always remembers my settings, so it's no big deal. Some of the earlier Tritone builds were buggy for me (wouldn't stay registered, crashed, etc.) but with the latest versions everything is great.

I demoed the Classictone and Pultone also, and they sounded awesome. At the time I had enough EQ plugins, though, including UAD Pultec Pro (another go-to!) and now Nebula API. Maybe if those TTD plugs go on sale one day I will pick them up. I'm definitely looking forward to their Squeezetone compressor, which they've been working on for years!

[shamann]

really? IIEQ never gave me any problem, besides addiction to high shelves...

I've recently noticed some weird stuff with recall of master gain settings (in that reloading a project doesn't seem to restore the master gain setting, although it still says the proper setting on the GUI), but I haven't done enough testing yet to send in a bug report.

[bduffy]

ddmf stuff is great, but IIEQ Pro is still a little buggy for me, speaking of!...

really? IIEQ never gave me any problem, besides addiction to high shelves...

I too suffer from that.

Yeah...I haven't used it in awhile, but I seem to recall some weirdness. As usual, probably just a bduffy-thang.

[Dean Aka Nekro]

nah duffs its a 'lucky for most thing' and im in the unlucky camp 9/10 times i tried IIEQPro after the posts about it, first thing i lauched live and dumped it on a track and about 10 'live has encountered an error and needs to close' message like a stack of playing cards. Task manager would not end the process and i had to hit the reset button that i had to fumble around for a pen to get at as its bloody recessed! so its EQIINo for me and yeah jimbob is riding a smooth wave on his system (a good excuse to upgrade my CPU!)

Nekro

[fjolle]

For me, the Flux EPure wins hands down. Expensive, but the sound of it just knocks the sh*t out of anything i've ever heard in a software equalizer before.

(Obviously, for boosting certain things for the love of crispness, the UAD Pultec is great without having this metallic sound to it but still being more crisp than the EPure)

I wouldn't enjoy mixing as much without those two

[bduffy]

nah duffs its a 'lucky for most thing' and im in the unlucky camp 9/10 times i tried IIEQPro after the posts about it, first thing i lauched live and dumped it on a track and about 10 'live has encountered an error and needs to close' message like a stack of playing cards. Task manager would not end the process and i had to hit the reset button that i had to fumble around for a pen to get at as its bloody recessed! so its EQIINo for me and yeah jimbob is riding a smooth wave on his system (a good excuse to upgrade my CPU!)

Nekro

Ah, OK; thanks for chiming in. Yeah, the EQ splines disappear and stuff, and I get some uneven EQ response. Reminds me to email the dev once again. Plus, I'm still not crazy about how you select bands/filters with the drop-down...but it's a fantastic EQ; silly, for the price.

[bduffy]

For me, the Flux EPure wins hands down. Expensive, but the sound of it just knocks the sh*t out of anything i've ever heard in a software equalizer before.

(Obviously, for boosting certain things for the love of crispness, the UAD Pultec is great without having this metallic sound to it but still being more crisp than the EPure)

I wouldn't enjoy mixing as much without those two

I really like the EPure EQ, although I'm not sure if its significantly better than other high quality EQs...something about it just sounded "good". Cool workflow too, and some crazy channel processing possibilities!

[fjolle]

I really like the EPure EQ, although I'm not sure if its significantly better than other high quality EQs...something about it just sounded "good". Cool workflow too, and some crazy channel processing possibilities!

Yeah the workflow is decent in it. I would advice you to give it another spin, especially try out the boosts in the higher regions of the spectrum, and give the cuts a test. The cuts are really really natural, try sculping a kick drum with it. It will sound just like the kick was made to be that way, not sculped with an EQ

[bduffy]

I really like the EPure EQ, although I'm not sure if its significantly better than other high quality EQs...something about it just sounded "good". Cool workflow too, and some crazy channel processing possibilities!

Yeah the workflow is decent in it. I would advice you to give it another spin, especially try out the boosts in the higher regions of the spectrum, and give the cuts a test. The cuts are really really natural, try sculping a kick drum with it. It will sound just like the kick was made to be that way, not sculped with an EQ

Yeah, you know, I kinda suck at telling if a cut filter is great or not, and the transparency of it largely depends on the slope of the filter. I guess I'm not that picky, but then again, there are cut filters like SX 3's track EQs, which shave off half the material with it! A cut filter that I really remember liking was URS's S-MIX EQ; you'd switch on a highpass @80hz, and it was like you hardly did anything. But twas probably just the slope of the filter.

Anyways, is about time to try FLUX Pure again; I'm already a huge fan, just don't have the coin for it yet.

[fjolle]

Yeah, you know, I kinda suck at telling if a cut filter is great or not, and the transparency of it largely depends on the slope of the filter. I guess I'm not that picky, but then again, there are cut filters like SX 3's track EQs, which shave off half the material with it! A cut filter that I really remember liking was URS's S-MIX EQ; you'd switch on a highpass @80hz, and it was like you hardly did anything. But twas probably just the slope of the filter.

hehe

Oh; besides the lcuts which are fabulous, when you get to demo it again try doing parametic cuts to remove artifacts like a boxy sound or kick/low end resonance trouble when mastering, its just as fabulous as everything else about it.

Also the way the interface scales when adjusting the gain of a band, so you got a more precise view of what you're doing

Anyways, is about time to try FLUX Pure again; I'm already a huge fan, just don't have the coin for it yet.

Don't forget to email Flux, perhaps they'll make you a little offer on EPure, besides being a bit odd in their emails sometimes they're nice people hehe

[dreaddd]

ddmf stuff is great, but IIEQ Pro is still a little buggy for me, speaking of!...

really? IIEQ never gave me any problem, besides addiction to high shelves...

+1 for me..at least on IIEQ pro i never had crash or weird behaviours so far (touching wood) ..and i m not still up to date with the version ...or maybe i only got extreeeeeeemely lucky once in my life

Peace

[PeterL]

GlissEQ. Very go-to.

My go-to Equalizer, too.

[4tune]

GlissEQ. Very go-to.

My go-to Equalizer, too.

Same here, the interface is about perfect for me on this one. Hope Aleksey has plans for introducing some interesting new algos for it in the future..

[bduffy]

Soon, my go-to will switch up a bit, thanks to 112db...

[Download SOphist]

Soon, my go-to will switch up a bit, thanks to 112db...

cool, bduf!