EQ Plugins

[Real Grooves Audio]

http://www.kvraudio.com/product/luftikus-by-lkjb

My new favorite EQ.

Fixed bands?

BootEQ from Variety of Sound is much better IMO:

This is a really good EQ. And it's 100% FREE. I rarely use EQ on individual tracks nowadays. Instead of slapping EQ on everything, I use only lo-pass and hi-pass filters to shape each track, and save any EQ use for the master bus, or to get a specific effect. Stuff just seems to sound more natural that way- less muddy too.

[K@rol]

...Some EQ's do sound different, so I'm not really agreeing with what you say either. There are a lot of analog modelling differences.
Cheers

They do not sound different... that's the whole point...

If you know how, you can emulate any existing filter shape with any digital EQ...
If there is some "analog emulation"... that means to 95% only saturation... no miracle here...

And about the example mentioned here about the pultec emulations... if you know the ratio between the boost and the "attenuation" it's quite easy to reproduce this behaviour...

For everything else of "magical sound"... feel free to post some examples, which are only possible with EQ XYZ... I am curious to hear them...
If you cannot... would be just another proof for my statement...

Agreed...Curves+Saturation

[momalle3]

I just spent a few hours (!) messing with eq on a jazz guitar project I'm doing. Thought it would be good to try a pultec style plugin. I tried the pultecs from Softube, and PSP and Overtone Audio.

They were all pretty good, and useful, but none of them did anything I couldn't do with Equilibrium and a little saturation.

If I had to rate them, by the way. I'd say

Softube--the most clarity
Overtone Audio--very "effecty" and obvious what it adds
PSP good all around and flexible.

If I wanted a fast and dirty eq and saturation plug these would be fine, and I ended up buying the Overtone audio version because it's dead cheap. But there's nothing in it that I couldn't easily reproduce, with much more control, using Equilibrium and a bit of saturation