[Dean Roddey]

Of coures in a lot of cases, none of this helps us. Compressors are definitely different, and in the case of all of the new Waves bundles, to get the compressors you get the EQs anyway, so if you have them, and their built in characteristics get you to where you want to go more easily, you might as wel use them.

I found that the API EQs really worked well for me and their automatic proportional EQ really always sounded so good with just a couple twists of the knobs, without me having to figure out the optimal Q for a given depth cut or boost.

So I'd use them often for their interface and how they react to settings as much as for how they actually do their thing inside, even knowing that they really aren't that different ultimately.