It's a coloring tool, but quite a heavy one) (out of the mentioned EQ i would totally avoid the SielEQ for serious high shelving purposes. That's why the possiblity of the maag air band to be set at 20kHz is useful: it starts boosting way lower than 20 kHz, but still not so low that the whole aggressive mid range would be affected.īasically, if someone has no magic high shelf, there is still the possibility to get good results when combining a high shelf with an addition filter band that cuts around 2.5-3.5kHz.īut of course, some of the mentioned EQs in this thread are really good, even if they of course can't perform magic and turn some high frequencies into a silky magic wonderland. (it can also be some aliasing dirt in this frequency range) Specially the range between 2.5 - 3.5 kHz is the area where harsheness has its usual habitat. When a high shelf is perceived as "harsh", the problem usually consists in the fact that the EQ also boost lower frequencies. In an orchestral set up, there are instruments that definitely shouldn't be saturated if they should keep on sounding natural.Īnd then, there is the whole category of the EQ curve. However, per se it's not what an EQ is supposed to do. To put it simply: there are some possibilities that an EQ can do, and they have real consequences:Ģ.) mess up phases in very special ways -> "enhancement" -> often very useful and niceģ.) add aliasing -> usually bad, sometimes perceived as "adding character"Ĥ.) add saturation -> often perceived as pleasing, warm, character etc. It's like the way one sees his or her partner when in love. high frequencies) and gets in a similar state as during a drug or meditation induced high. The brain focusses on a special task (e.g.
appear, you can be always sure that we are in placebo land. However, when attributes as "deep", "silky" etc. When somebody says an EQ is "good" or "really good", i tend to believe. Q and boost values weren't identical between the two and Acustica's could do bigger boosts in the lows and highs without smearing.Īnd although Luca's known for EDM, this thing sounds beautiful on everything I've tried it on orchestra, percussion, guitars. Like it more than UAD's and found them to be quite different with identical settings. Their Massive Passive is top on my list as well. Anyway, never heard anything in the box that sounds like this. That's really the only way I can describe it. (Wouldn't have described plugin EQs as having 'tightness' before hearing Diamond and Magenta (Their Massive Passive). Tightest deepest low end I've heard in a plugin. Normal convolution just yields a static tonal curve, Acustica has a method for capturing the dynamic and temporal behavior of harmonics, and dynamic behavior of compressors, limiters.ĭiamond's 50k boost is gorgeous.The low end on it is ridiculously good too. they have the only method, (as far as I know), for convolving hardware. (A little heavy on CPU use, as is all of their stuff.)
Maag, UAD Massive Passive ad Curve Bender were my top choices until buying Acustica Audio's Diamond Color EQ.
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