peterlemer
Logician
at my friend's studio yesterday he showed something I hadn't previously been aware of.
Although he's using a fully-specced ProTools HD system he's sending his mics through a rather expensive small analogue mixer to apply pre-EQ before entering the digital domain.
He says that some of his clients do the same, typically 2 dB at 10k and something similar at 1k. ( he uses a slightly different setting)
He says that by doing so, the phase is altered and this gives the digital plugin EQ more to 'bite on' and hence makes it much more effective.
What can anyone tell me about this, and if it does indeed make plug-in EQ more sensitive, can a similarly effective phase-tweaking be achieved in the digital domain?
Apart from the built-in set of L9 plugins I have most of the Sonalksis suite.
Seriously considering Altiverb after he showed me some of its games
pete
Although he's using a fully-specced ProTools HD system he's sending his mics through a rather expensive small analogue mixer to apply pre-EQ before entering the digital domain.
He says that some of his clients do the same, typically 2 dB at 10k and something similar at 1k. ( he uses a slightly different setting)
He says that by doing so, the phase is altered and this gives the digital plugin EQ more to 'bite on' and hence makes it much more effective.
What can anyone tell me about this, and if it does indeed make plug-in EQ more sensitive, can a similarly effective phase-tweaking be achieved in the digital domain?
Apart from the built-in set of L9 plugins I have most of the Sonalksis suite.
Seriously considering Altiverb after he showed me some of its games
pete