SouthSIDE Glen
independentrecording.net
It's a good thing he loves me. Imagine the names he'd be calling me if he didn't? 
It's got nothing to do with the number of posts, pingu, and it's got nothing to do with me. The fact is every engineer who has been around the block at least once read your post with the blanket statement and shook their head with a '"tsk tsk" because they have been there, done that and know that such statements are the stuff that myths are made of.
If one knows what EQ he wants, then yes, *maybe* bypassing while making the settings can reduce some fatigue and cause one to rely more on their ears and mind. Sometimes. But often times one might be ready to EQ at, say, 200Hz and in sweeping to it he discovers that 220Hz is actually better in reality than what he had in his mind. Should he ignore that feedback, that input?
But even more than that, EQ's can be used in two different ways; as corrective devices as we all know them, and also just as powerfully, as test probes. There are often certain frequencies that act as "sweet spots" or "sour spots" in the sound of a recording. These hot spots do not always reveal themselves to the human ear at their current embedded levels, but by using parametric EQ sweeps with artifical boost and cut, one can cause these frequencies to reveal themselves like lifting otherwise invisible fingerprints from a piece of glass.
This is not rocket science, this is a basic technique that is fast, accurate, used successfully by thousands of engineers every day, rookie and veteran. And it's exactly the opposite of the blanket statement you quoted.
And if you are going to go around repeatedly calling me a cocksucker, anus licker, and asshole, don't expect me to pull any punches in pointing out when you make a fool out of yourself...then again when you act like that, it doesn't really need pointing out, does it?
G.
It's got nothing to do with the number of posts, pingu, and it's got nothing to do with me. The fact is every engineer who has been around the block at least once read your post with the blanket statement and shook their head with a '"tsk tsk" because they have been there, done that and know that such statements are the stuff that myths are made of.
If one knows what EQ he wants, then yes, *maybe* bypassing while making the settings can reduce some fatigue and cause one to rely more on their ears and mind. Sometimes. But often times one might be ready to EQ at, say, 200Hz and in sweeping to it he discovers that 220Hz is actually better in reality than what he had in his mind. Should he ignore that feedback, that input?
But even more than that, EQ's can be used in two different ways; as corrective devices as we all know them, and also just as powerfully, as test probes. There are often certain frequencies that act as "sweet spots" or "sour spots" in the sound of a recording. These hot spots do not always reveal themselves to the human ear at their current embedded levels, but by using parametric EQ sweeps with artifical boost and cut, one can cause these frequencies to reveal themselves like lifting otherwise invisible fingerprints from a piece of glass.
This is not rocket science, this is a basic technique that is fast, accurate, used successfully by thousands of engineers every day, rookie and veteran. And it's exactly the opposite of the blanket statement you quoted.
And if you are going to go around repeatedly calling me a cocksucker, anus licker, and asshole, don't expect me to pull any punches in pointing out when you make a fool out of yourself...then again when you act like that, it doesn't really need pointing out, does it?
G.
