[LAU] project "droning": 10 years, 300 tracks

[Louigi Verona]

EQ is not just the DSP. It's all of it - the DSP and the UI.

Take, for instance, ZynEq 10. And let's say that it's DSP is perfect. The
reason why I would consider it to be less usable than the EQ
<https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio-learning/fl-studio-online-manual/html/plugins/Fruity%20Parametric%20EQ%202.htm>
I'm using in FL Studio is because ZynEq is really limited: the bands are
fixed, you cannot move them around. The Q setting is global: you cannot
make one band wide and the other narrow. It doesn't allow you to change the
slope type or band type. There's no way to solo a band. There's no way to
store a state and switch between the current state and another one, to hear
the difference.

All of this reduces my accuracy and/or makes the process very difficult and
slow. Regardless of whether I want to cut something out or just apply a
broad fix.

That's what I am talking about when it comes to EQs.



Louigi Verona
https://louigiverona.com/


On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 12:36 PM Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 12:55:08PM +0100, Louigi Verona wrote:
>
> > I think I won't make a claim that it is totally impossible, but it's
> > definitely not trivial. I have produced hundreds of tunes with Linux
> Audio
> > and explored loads of tools during that time, but I couldn't even find an
> > EQ that would work well for me. There is one EQ product that seems ok,
> but
> > for me it was unstable and kept crashing my projects.
>
> There are two different aspects to this.
>
> 1. Things that crash are clearly no acceptable. Yet there is a lot of stuff
> in the linuxaudio world that do crash or become unstable in some way or
> another. It's usually due to a programmer being inexperienced in real-time
> programming, or just copying some equation from a textbook or website
> without
> really understanding it.
>
> 2. Then there is the question of what it meant by 'EQ'. For classical music
> recording, if EQ is used at all it will be minimal, at most a few dB and
> in wide and smooth bands. The aim is always to make things sound natural,
> not to create an effect. The same is basically true for popular music, even
> if EQ settings will be more pronounced and agressive.
>
> What you seem to expect from EQ (reading your last post about Healing
> Fountain) is quite different. Most EQs are not designed to completely
> remove a frequency band or have very steep cutoff slopes, for the simple
> reason that in 'traditional' audio (recording and mixing real physical
> instruments) that is quite useless and would sound very bad.
>
> So it could well be that you don't find what you need in Linux audio,
> but that has little to do with the quality of what is available.
>
> Ciao,
>
> --
> FA
>
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