EQ program????

[TaxMan88]

If what I am looking for exists, it will be a wonderful thing!! Is there a program out there solely for the purpose of EQing?? I don't need the recording part of the software. I already have that. I'm basically looking for a mixing board in a computer program. And here's the catch . . . . is there one FOR FREE??

If this DOES exist, have any of you used it, is it any good, and where can I get my hands on it??

Hope someone can help.

--Tax

 

[TaxMan88]

After reading my post . . .

I realized that I should have been more specific.

What I'm thinking about is a program in which I could assign an un-EQed .wav file to a track and treat it as though I was running it through a mixer. Then I could save the file WITH the eq to use it in a mix on my recording software. (No, I know you're all wondering it, but my software does NOT have eq on it. Very cheap. In fact free. Someone gave it to me.)

Hope I've cleared this up a little.

--Tax

 

[gordone]

Hey Taxman (Don't come after me!)
The problem with this idea is it's hard to eq a track without listening to the other tracks (unless you have the sonic equivalent of a photographic memory and can "remember" what the other tracks sound like while eq'ing one!)
My suggestion is N-Track. It's not free, but for $60 you get a pretty darn nice software package. Unlimited tracks, built in 3 band parametric EQ per track, support for plug-ins, I haven't used any other recording software, but I have no problems with N-track. You can download the demo at http://www.fasoft.com.
Good luck!

-Evan

 

[Slackmaster2K]

Definately get a copy of n-Track. You need some recording software that supports plugins, and all the sudden you'll be overwhelmed by EQs, and compressors, and reverbs...etc.

Or you could get a wave editor like Cool Edit that does DX plugins. It probably has native EQ as well.

For the "free" solution you can use Goldwave which is NOT free but a fully functional shareware wave editor. Do a search and it should be easy to find. Goldwave does not support plugins but does have some little effects/processors that work ok.

Like gordone said though...you really want something that will operate in realtime. Using a wave editor is NOT realtime Unless you really know what you're doing, it's going to take you forever to get any work done if you have to constantly switch between your mixing software and a wave editor. It can take up to several minutes to destructively apply certain effects to large audio files.

Slackmaster 2000