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Post by sirthought on Nov 1, 2019 4:58:42 GMT -6
hey Wiz, if you check out the tutorials from Brian Moncarz on Puremix, he always listens to raw tracks and sets up his whole mix bus first, including EQ. For every mix he does. He claims it gets him mostly done before processing any individual tracks.
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Post by johneppstein on Nov 1, 2019 11:57:47 GMT -6
I don't think you quite understood what I said.
My buss EQs are PASSIVE*. They have no gain - in fact they have about a 14 dB insertion loss at the flat setting. therefore they REQUIRE makeup gain from an external preamp in order to get back to line level. They aren't driving anything hotter.
When a band is set to "boost" what it actually means is that it's cutting less.
The EQs use toroidal inductors that are approximately the size of an average New England cake doughnut, two per band. They're BIG, heavy air core inductors and the odds of them saturating at any sort of line level are nil. They also generate NO noise (except the thermal background) and no significant distortion.
You can ask Bob O about these EQs - they're the same ones that the famous Motown mastering EQs were based on.
* - and by "passive" I mean PASSIVE. No internal make-up amp. Nary a tube or transistor to be found in there. No power cord. None of this modern crap about calling something with a passive EQ circuit into a gain stage "passive" because such a device really isn't passive strictly speaking, there's gain in the box so it ain't passive.
My EQs are passive. They require external makeup gain.
cool. Your unique and special. There. Did you get your daily dose of "im better than everyone on the internet" lol the way you "share" your information is hilarious to me on this forum. You constant pick a fight with people and then finally explain something useful in a degrading way to everyone as if we all know what your setup is and as if your an engineer blessed with technique's from god himself. Get over yourself man. If you want to contribute, just say how you do it to fit you. You don't need to be a grumpy old man keyboard warrior all the time about it haha I found that info mostly cool. But your delivery is...well asshole is how I'd label it haha While my buss eq is a passive design as well but it does have a makeup gain stage in it. Which again, is pretty common tools that most people have. Wait a minute - I simply described what my particular set up for a 2 buss EQ is.
You then posted a rather aggressive and condescending response that pretty much demonstrated that you really were not paying much attention to what I said. I corrected your misunderstanding.
I wasn't "picking a fight." If anybody was doing that, look to yourself.
What's wrong with that?
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Post by EmRR on Nov 1, 2019 12:02:52 GMT -6
I've done a couple heavier aggressive records with API 550A's on the mix bus, something like +2 / 100 and +2 / 3K. Otherwise, never have.
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Post by Ward on Nov 3, 2019 6:54:21 GMT -6
On the rarest occasion when I do this, I always do it last and make it the last thing before output.
And it’s usually to do two things: 1. To thin out the low mud/ low mid range. 3. To reduce the amount of high mids causing ear fatigue
But most times I leave that to the mastering engineer.
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