Fabfilter Pro-Q3 sale

The ergonomics of that plugin should be studied at the Smithsonian.

I don't own any FF stuff. This is my first, so 30% off plus another $10 off made it worth buying. I'm very partial to Crave EQ but Pro-Q3 does have a dynamics section, like Kirchoff, but simplified.

It’s worth it to get all their plugins… Their limiter is all I use now, their gate can be great, Saturn is just phenomenal, reverb is super weird but can do some really unique stuff. Just get it all. The EQ is probably their best thing though.

Me too. It's not so much that's it's doing anything new or revolutionary that other plugins can do, it's their layout and interface/ease of use that sells it. Being able to quickly solo a band easily to hone in on trouble areas, and easily compressing some mids or expanding your top end just a little bit is a game changer. I've joked with myself about doing one of those click bait-ey videos on "The One Plugin You Need" or something and mixing a whole song with nothing but that plugin. I'm sure there's some way to route things around in there and make a delay or reverb if I had to  . You could almost mix a whole song with just their EQ.

That’s odd, are they recognized in your plug in folder?

I have Pro Q3 - it's a very useful Swiss army knife EQ.

The best sounding digital EQ I own is the DMG Equilibrium - I call it analog digital EQ.

terrible unless you spend an hour or three setting it up in advance how you want it when you can mix and match filters from a wide variety of eqs. It’s one of those eq plugins that tries to negate cramping by instead of prewarping the eq filters to make it closer to analog like Oxford eq or Fabfilter not in natural phase mode, warps it afterwards with a linear phase filter to try to get it back to what an analog filter would be. And in typical dmg audio fashion this is not done for you and you have to choose the filter taps and everything 😱

The argument for this over Just running the filters at a higher sample rate is less ringing than having to use two linear phase anti alias filters but unlike that, it can never match the ideal response. Other eqs like the new kush and DDMF grand eq use this. Running the eq at a higher sample rate is why Weiss, MDW, TDR and Fabfilter Natural phase don’t sound like crap. Also Pro Q3 natural phase without dynamics and the Weiss EQ MP only use one anti alias filter because since they’re linear processes, they don’t need to cut out the ghost images to process it at the higher sample rate, then down sample it again; they only need to downsample it.

Of course now we have eqs with the numerical error of analog thanks to vadim zavalishin and Andrew simper but these tend to not have great guis. Reaktor, some of the Izotope EQs, EQ8 in Ableton, JS:ReEQ in Reaper, U-he Filterscape (how the hell do I use this?), etc. are more analog than expensive mastering eqs that are nothing but direct form biquads that are slowly blowing up.

Dan