It does look amazing! I’ll wait for the official release before I get me paws on it
Thank you both very much for your time and effort!
It’s going to make mixing tasks so much more intuitive and enjoyable for me No more pesky rogue frequencies from resonators and the visual feedback will be really helpful for my ageing ears!
Lets no forget there is already a good few EQ’s that can get rid of those frequency free and premium. That’s not to say this is a peach of an EQ either, very impressive work!
Agreed, there are many tools with different feature sets, and people should use the best tool they consider for the job. In the low HP territory there is the Vult Decline, which is a great little package for EQing (coupled with a Bog Spectrum Analyser it can be very interesting). At the other end of the spectrum is Parametra, perfect for end-of-chain final EQing, with its 8 bands, very intuitive screen manipulation, and more filter types than we offer (and it supports VCV development!).
Gotta say: I love how well thought out this whole ecosystem is. At first I was like, “I’d really like a HP filter” and before I could finish the thought, “duh, there are HP filters built into the MindMeld channels.” My next thought was, “damn, the filters are post-insert, I wish they were pre-insert so I could see the filter in the analyzer.” Next thought: “let me go look to see if there’s a setting for that just in case…” and there is! You guys really thought of just about everything. Thanks!
You’re right there are other EQs and some very good ones too. The biggest difference between EQMaster and the others is that it is multi-track. If you wanted to put an EQ on every MixMaster track using one of the others you would need… 24 instances of them… which would take a lot of CPU, a lot of screen real estate and a lot of patching. Whereas one instance of EQMaster can EQ all 24 tracks, in a CPU efficient way with minimal patching.
Would you split this EQMaster announcement back into its own thread seperate from the MixMaster thread please? Seems a bit odd to have a new announcement 70ish replies down in a 3 month old thread about a different module.
Also the old thread title has been changed which makes it difficult to find for anyone looking for that.
Got a chance to play with it yesterday with a song using MixMaster, it’s really nice! A good neutral-sounding mixing visual EQ was a big gap to use VCV standalone.
MixMaster is great, but I like GTG’s for live performance too, so I wanted to try them both together, it works well! Here’s the recipe I use:
I started to follow the routing, but it gets a bit tricky to understand how you’re managing the effect sends while also managing the levels of each mini bus.
A GTG group is comprised of 6 channels / 3 buses, one stereo pair per color. The bus route is a breakout box letting you process the sound as you wish. Somewhere in the processing chain, it goes Bus Route > Meld > EqMaster > Unmeld > Bus Route. Meld/Unmeld are splits and merge devices that show the stereo pairs clearly. Multiple bus road submixes can be merged into a single mix with a Road device. It’s more complex than just using MixMaster for everything, but allows you to define the signal chain in great detail, via cables rather than settings. It’s potentially useful for sound sculpting / live performance.
Channel 9 of the Merge will map to channel 5 because the poly cable is setup to process stereo signals as follows:
chan1 of poly cable is Track 1 - left
chan2 of poly cable is Track 1 - right
chan3 of poly cable is Track 2 - left
etc.
Also, the normal way to connect EQ master is thougth the insert chain only. This means the insert out goes to the EQ in, and then the EQ out goes back to the insert in. Hope this helps!
This is how it is normally cabled on the inserts. This gives you EQ on the first 8 tracks of MixMaster. Select the track you want to EQ using the Track knob on EQMaster.