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question444
New member
simple question. I use a roland gp-8 for delay and eq on vocals. If you turn on the eq and increase hi, mid and lo to the max, is that the same thing basically as just turning the volume up instead?
peopleperson
I'm so sorry.
Most likely not seeing as how if you only have control over "high, mid, and low", they're just fixed points or "humps" if you will, and not the entire low mid and high.
TexRoadkill
Audio Bum
It would be like turning up the volume in most places and adding a bunch of ugly phase distortion.
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Rodger Hartlett
New member
if each band has a wide bandwidth then yes it may resemble a complete lift. there stlill may be holes that are not being boosted.
sweetnubs
New member
pretty much a crap thing to do.
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Joseph Hanna
Active member
The catch here is it's NOT a simple question. It's further convoluted by the use of the word volume. There are certainly vastly VASTLY different eq's and what happens downstream from them is a direct result of the eq itself..clearly the outcome is not as universal as indicated in the posts above and in some cases clearly is NOT a "crap thing to do".
The question would have to be qualified but there are many situations where an eq could be "turned up" (I hope we can agree on this lose phrase) and not appreciably effect the "volume". It would however in almost all cases effect the gain which in turn would effect all sorts of things. Good bad or indifferent depending on what your intent.
I recall an electric slide player of the 80's (who you've all knowingly or not have heard) who took full advantage of an old tube eq and drove the daylights out of a small vintage amplifier with it. The results were FAR less than crap.
JH
The question would have to be qualified but there are many situations where an eq could be "turned up" (I hope we can agree on this lose phrase) and not appreciably effect the "volume". It would however in almost all cases effect the gain which in turn would effect all sorts of things. Good bad or indifferent depending on what your intent.
I recall an electric slide player of the 80's (who you've all knowingly or not have heard) who took full advantage of an old tube eq and drove the daylights out of a small vintage amplifier with it. The results were FAR less than crap.
JH