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Originally Posted by James Lehmann  ~ standby for radical left-field viewpoint that isn't simply "buy this Acme EQ to unlock the secret of eternal happiness" ~
Larry,
In all honesty, judging from the highly detailed, fraught and indecisive way you've written out your post, I think you're just caught in the typical consumer trap of being bewildered by unlimited choice and devoting way too much of your mental resources to something that your mind has made far more complex than it need be. Our brains can't cope with this many variables in a decision like this - in fact studies show we tend to make better decisions based on fewer variables and gut instinct.
So what am I saying? I'm suggesting that spending money on yet another EQ plug-in is not going to make you happy and not going to be the elusive 'universal go-to Holy Grail' you seem to be searching for. The only place this exists is in your mind. You have more EQ's than you probably need already and your creative and emotional energies would be far better being freed up and devoted to other aspects of your music/life. Post up some mixes and tell us what you don't like about them? I'd be willing to bet that comments like: "Oh man, these sound great but if you only had EQ X they'd sound so much better" are likely to be way way down the list of feedback you get.
If you purely need to slake your slutty cravings (don't we all from time to time!) then do so with a really nice hardware EQ - one quality piece of hardware is worth any number of expensively frail plug-ins both in terms of sonics and long-term satisfaction. |
OK, look, there is nothing "fraught" about my post. Defined by my dictionary as:
"adjective
1 [ predic. ] ( fraught with) (of a situation or course of action) filled with or destined to result in (something undesirable) : marketing any new product is fraught with danger.
2 causing or affected by great anxiety or stress : there was a fraught silence | she sounded a bit fraught"
Hardware EQ is out of the budget, and not helpful, since I was asking for
a software plug in EQ suggestion. You dig? I tried to describe what I had, and what I was looking for as best I could. That would be the "highly detailed" aspect of it. Suggesting hardware EQ is about as useful as suggesting that I pay more attention to room acoustics or use different microphones, that is, a good idea and all, but not what I was asking for.
I am fully aware that I could have worded the post better, and have acknowledged that. I have also admitted that I could stand to learn some more things about EQ in general. I don't need your patronizing tone regarding my "fraught" and "indecisive" post. I was hoping to hear of some suggestions about EQ's that folks used, and described what I had already, and where I was hoping for improvement and how.
I would not expect that any mix I posted would have comments about the EQ I used either, no matter how lacking it was. Enough. Thanks, sir, L