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Every EQ Shape and Why It Exists

Bells, shelves, filters and their slopes; parametric, semi-parametric and graphic; constant-Q versus variable-Q; and what dynamic and linear-phase EQ genuinely cost you.

Topic
Mixing
Level
Intermediate
Format
Lesson
Time
17 min

You will meet equalizers in four or five quite different physical forms, and the packaging makes them look like unrelated tools. A four-knob console strip, an eight-band plugin with a curve you can drag, a rack unit with thirty-one sliders, a plugin whose bands move by themselves.

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