On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:29 AM, John Rigg <ladev3@jrigg.co.uk> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 01:02:13AM +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> But do you really think that when doing a mix, the quality of the
> final result will depend on which of the 15 or so general purpose
> equalisers you use on any particular track ?

No, it depends on which esoteric piece of hardware the pretty picture
on the GUI looks like, of course.

> The result will depend only on your skill in using any one of
> those EQs.

Heresy!

Heh. Exactly. Sometimes I get the impression that users of windows and mac have no clue that those 10,000 awesome free VST/AU plugins simply represent the permutations of the mathematical functions of a few LADSPA plugins. Personally, I'd rather assemble those functions myself than have some Brand Name (TM) do it for me and slap a stupid shiny GUI on it.