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DESK EQ

EQ

Three bands with a sweepable middle

What it does

Three bands, with the middle one sweepable from 200 Hz to 8 kHz. Fifteen decibels each way is more than a desk EQ usually gives, because a chip sometimes needs a lot taken off. The same three bands sit on every channel strip; this is the one you can move and automate.

  • Find a problem by boosting MID and sweeping FREQ, then cut it
  • LOW at -6 on a pad leaves room for the bass

Where it goes

PADSINSTRUMENTSCHANNELSBUSESMASTER

Four to a socket, in order: sound runs through the slots top to bottom. Open the box and every knob is in real units; BYPASS takes it out of the path without losing its settings; the presets are along the top; any knob learns a controller and gets an automation lane.

The knobs

4 KNOBS · REAL UNITS
KnobRangeStarts atScale
LOW-15 dB to 15 dB0 dBlinear
MID-15 dB to 15 dB0 dBlinear
FREQ200 Hz to 8000 Hz1000 Hzlog
HIGH-15 dB to 15 dB0 dBlinear

The presets

10 IN THE BANK

Every box ships with a bank. AS SET is the knobs as you left them; the rest are starting points, each a sound someone wanted often enough to name. Star one and it sits at the front of the bank.

PresetLOWMIDFREQHIGH
FLAT0 dB0 dB1000 Hz0 dB
WARM3 dB-1 dB800 Hz-2 dB
BRIGHT-1 dB0 dB2500 Hz4 dB
SCOOP2 dB-6 dB900 Hz2 dB
SMILE4 dB-3 dB1000 Hz4 dB
BOOM6 dB-2 dB400 Hz0 dB
PRESENCE0 dB4 dB3000 Hz1 dB
MUD CUT0 dB-5 dB300 Hz0 dB
RADIO-8 dB4 dB1800 Hz-6 dB
AM RADIO-12 dB6 dB1200 Hz-12 dB

The console line

Every box is also a line of the console's language, so a pad or a patch can carry its effects in text. The words are the knobs:

fx eq low=0 mid=0 freq=1000 high=0

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