Why engineers still reach for a channel strip with four fixed bands when a plugin offers thirty-two — fixed, semi-parametric and parametric compared honestly, and the switch that fixes more mixes than the EQ section does.
A modern plugin EQ offers thirty-two bands, any of them fully parametric, with a spectrum analyser behind the curve and dynamic behaviour on each band. A classic console channel gives you four bands, two of them fixed, no display at all.
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