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Dust Equalizer
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- KVRAF
- 3846 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from Underworld
After using your EQ rather often in projects, I have a little GUI sugggestion. It would be logical and practical that the transcriptions above the knobs be in white font instead of dark grey. Even though I work with your EQ regularly I still sometimes have a hard time discerning which band is what. I'm not used to such layout so I have to remind myself at times which is which. 
I also still think a little round or rectangle bypass button in the upper-right corner would be welcome for each band. It could be turned off by default and light up red when you activate the bypass, or something like that...
And this is a new one: how about a mono/stereo button? Somewhere around "active" button? Would that influence CPU consumption for the better? Even though I think its CPU consumption is excellent as it is. Anyway, so far, when I use only one input in Reaper the CPU stays the same. It's like Dust EQ doesn't recognise mono/stereo inputs and work in stereo all the time? About 90% of my tracks are mono, so if it had a mono switch it would improve the workflow in Reaper. Just switch it to mono and it would automatically process only the left input channel and output it to both channels, like Sonimus Satson does, for instance.
Maybe I should have written this in the Signaldust forum? But I didn't want to start a thread about such minor niggle. I also wanted to post this to give it a little bump and hear what's going on with mystran, and maybe inspire him with some ideas.
Quick mockup in GIMP.
Without the mono/stereo switch under the "active" switch. There is definitely some free space there for a mono/stereo switch that looks the same as the "active" switch [textual]. I think transcriptions could be a bit smaller if they're white. The font looks a little bit too big now. You don't need the word "Bell", either. I don't think I've seen anything but "Low", "Low Mid", "High Mid" and High on any consoles. It's just widely excepted that Mids are parametric, not shelves.
I think I managed to keep the spirit and philosophy of a Signaldust GUI that I absolutely love. All of your GUIs.
The layout like this would also be more logical: Low Cut>Low Shelf>Low-Mid Bell, then the second row High-Mid Bell>High Shelf>High Cut but that would be surely taking it too far.
Not to mention putting it all in one row, like DDMF 6144 EQ, for instance.
I also still think a little round or rectangle bypass button in the upper-right corner would be welcome for each band. It could be turned off by default and light up red when you activate the bypass, or something like that...And this is a new one: how about a mono/stereo button? Somewhere around "active" button? Would that influence CPU consumption for the better? Even though I think its CPU consumption is excellent as it is. Anyway, so far, when I use only one input in Reaper the CPU stays the same. It's like Dust EQ doesn't recognise mono/stereo inputs and work in stereo all the time? About 90% of my tracks are mono, so if it had a mono switch it would improve the workflow in Reaper. Just switch it to mono and it would automatically process only the left input channel and output it to both channels, like Sonimus Satson does, for instance.
Maybe I should have written this in the Signaldust forum? But I didn't want to start a thread about such minor niggle. I also wanted to post this to give it a little bump and hear what's going on with mystran, and maybe inspire him with some ideas.
Quick mockup in GIMP.
Without the mono/stereo switch under the "active" switch. There is definitely some free space there for a mono/stereo switch that looks the same as the "active" switch [textual]. I think transcriptions could be a bit smaller if they're white. The font looks a little bit too big now. You don't need the word "Bell", either. I don't think I've seen anything but "Low", "Low Mid", "High Mid" and High on any consoles. It's just widely excepted that Mids are parametric, not shelves. I think I managed to keep the spirit and philosophy of a Signaldust GUI that I absolutely love. All of your GUIs.
The layout like this would also be more logical: Low Cut>Low Shelf>Low-Mid Bell, then the second row High-Mid Bell>High Shelf>High Cut but that would be surely taking it too far.
Not to mention putting it all in one row, like DDMF 6144 EQ, for instance.It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
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- KVRAF
- 3846 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from Underworld
Bump!
One little question, mystran. In your previous Dust Equalizer 1.0.5.1 the phase response of the low pass filter goes up after around 700Hz and in the new Dust EQ the phase response of the low pass filter is rather linear all the way except for a little bump at around 30kHz [I measured at 96kHz so it's different than at 44.1 or 48] and touches the nyquist point. Shouldn't it go up at around 700Hz like in your previous Dust EQ in an analog low pass filter design? Maybe it's still something you're working on?
I base this assumption on analysing EQuality EQ in analog mode, and I tried the others, too. In digital mode the phase response looks like the new Dust EQ and in analog mode it is rather similar to the old Dust EQ. Puzzling. While analysing your new Dust EQ I noticed that the phase response of the new one is not static as in previous Dust EQ, though, which is quite nice. I like it when plugins don't calculate frequencies and phase statically. That's how analog gear works...
One little question, mystran. In your previous Dust Equalizer 1.0.5.1 the phase response of the low pass filter goes up after around 700Hz and in the new Dust EQ the phase response of the low pass filter is rather linear all the way except for a little bump at around 30kHz [I measured at 96kHz so it's different than at 44.1 or 48] and touches the nyquist point. Shouldn't it go up at around 700Hz like in your previous Dust EQ in an analog low pass filter design? Maybe it's still something you're working on?
I base this assumption on analysing EQuality EQ in analog mode, and I tried the others, too. In digital mode the phase response looks like the new Dust EQ and in analog mode it is rather similar to the old Dust EQ. Puzzling. While analysing your new Dust EQ I noticed that the phase response of the new one is not static as in previous Dust EQ, though, which is quite nice. I like it when plugins don't calculate frequencies and phase statically. That's how analog gear works...
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 8476 posts since 12 Feb, 2006 from Helsinki, Finland
The old Dust EQ makes no attempt to match analog phase.. it's pure magnitude fit so the phase deviates from the desired as you go higher up on frequencies. The new one does attempt to match analog phase, which is why it needs a bit of latency.
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do_androids_dream do_androids_dream https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=164034 - KVRAF
- 2908 posts since 26 Oct, 2007 from Kent, UK
This eq deserves a bump... I've been using it quite a bit today - doing the plugin shootout thing(as the vst collecting bug has reared it's ugly head again) - and I just have to say that this is an amazing eq. It's easily the most 'musical' eq I have in my plugin folder. I've been comparing it to other eq's in a very non scientific way - just using an eq normally and assessing how quickly and easily I get to a desirable result - and the one thing that sticks out is the fact that i just can't get it to sound harsh. It sound's musical almost no matter what I do with it. It's been quite revealing when compared to some other ones out there. Gushing over...