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Originally Posted by Luny Tune  Absolutely, David. Don't hold back!! 
Regarding your "harmonics EQ"... A sort of "parametric exciter"...? Maybe it could work fine on a recording in poor shape and even add emphasis to a recorded signal already in good shape. For certain applications, in short. It sounds to me like an "eq" for saving signals rather than for making what's already good better. |
Yes, I imagine it would find use primarily as a mastering tool. Got a track with a muddy bass line? Add some harmonics
just to the bass to make it stand out better.
At the mix stage, you'd obviously have lots of options to process the bass track alone, and a conventional saturation plug in (or a tried and true slow attack compressor) could end up accomplishing the same thing.
But for folks like me who do a lot of "live to two-track" work, tools that only work on an isolated instrument or vocal aren't very useful. I don't bill myself as a mastering engineer, but much of my post-event audio production looks a lot like mastering.
Speaking of radical "EQ" plug ins that are useful for rescuing bad recordings in mastering, I've got to put in a plug for Duane Wise's "Dynamic Parametric EQ" tool (
Quartet DynPEQ, distributed by Sonic Studio). To understand what this thing really is, look at
this explanation on Duane's web site. In the demo I heard, he took a really bad jazz trio recording and turned it into something you might actually want to broadcast. Too bad we have to wait for the VST version!
David L. Rick
Seventh String Recording