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Originally Posted by lucey
What are you guys using for eq now?
Brian, Like most guys I probably lean on some Eq's for certain things.
I'm tubeless at the moment - but open for anything really.
Right now I'm using..
Focusrite 315 ( great tone shaper and filters) Spent a ransom on recapping.
api 500 (lean and fast. aggressive mids. I'm always between 500 and 5k on this)
Neve 32087 (stepped 1081. Great foil and alt. to the 550. Slower darker and fab mids 1200 to 8K for me on this one)
Sontec 432 (even the wrong eq choices sound good. Softer than most but still the wrong word. Sweet is better. Never harsh and of the 3 bands I like to be around 100, 1k -4800, and 6k8 -10k) 19k is nice too.
If I didn't have this I'd get the excellent GML 9500 which is used by the other guys here.
Not really a sontec replacement though.
Digital? Every plug-in ever and I barely never ever use them
Zsys2 eq (which I dont enjoy using I actually like the sound of a lot. 100hz and below is great and the mids 1k2 to 8K are aggressive. in fact the whole thing is colourful but a lot of people hate this one!) The 6 channel one is easier to use and you can bypass each band. I saw Tom Coyne use 2 weeks ago to great effect.
For me these choices sound good as a whole - meaning they combine fairly well.
It's amazing how much I'm not thinking about EQ's these days?
I might be the only guy who really doesn't care that much about that new passive SPL (do disrespect though I have a spl comp and like it...)
I'm finding that something NEW gear wise new will not radically improve or even change what I'm doing.
I'm finding that not changing stuff and learning to use what I have is making the biggest difference so far.
I'm still working on a rough 'round the edges vanity site but there might be pics of the gear on the studio page?
Phil