Hey guys!
I'm interested in Visual type EQ's. Ive read about them vauguly, but they sound like my thing if you can SEE the mix and where each main instrument sits in the spectrum.

I want to improve my mixes by giving more seperation to each instrument, instead of them all fighting each other over where they sit in the spectrum..

I remember there were EQ's released here that sounded like that sort of thing.

I have chemo brain so i forget names of things!

If you have any suggestions, please share!


Loving AUDIOZ like never b4! keep up the job!

 

You can view eq's from other channels in your current channel with izotope neutron.

another option is getting Meldas - MMultiAnalyser. You can see the spectrum of multiple channels even clashing frequencies as well.

I think bluecataudio and voxengo have something similar but i could be wrong

 

SPAN Pro does. But what you've mentioned are all analyzers, not EQs.

TBH, I never heard that expression, Visual type EQ. Maybe an EQ with an analyzer?

 

ha! yeah, im fumbling for words to describe them!

Like i mentioned, I want to be able to mix like so many albums (usually 70's analog stuff) that achieve big headroom with each instrument in it's own frequency range, \without them sounding scooped or unnaturally forced. I dont know exactly how they achieved this, so im assuming it's gotta be tightening the EQ for each instrument.
I habitually fall into the "more is better" trap and make instruments sound big, but that makes for less seperation.

Thanks so much for your help

 

Fabfilter Pro Q3 is cool.
I am using Nov 2018 versions until I have some verification about the newer R2R 2020 version.
Just check this video:
https://www.fabfilter.com/products/pro-q-3-equalizer-plug-in

Oh I think you might be talking about something like Wavesfactory Trackspacer (have barely used it myself). It has visual feeback ...as most do..

 

Last edited: Aug 21, 2020

Ok, if you want to see the spectrum, you'll need an analyzer (like the ones already mentioned). But back in those days they didn't have realtime frequency spectrum analyzers, like the ones we use today in our DAWs.

Additionally they had, compared to modern tools, rather 'weak' compressors and 'weak' EQs. Means, they they didn't/couldn't dial in a lot of compression and (sharp) eqing, so these sounds are way more natural than modern sounds.

Headroom is the difference between peaks and clipping (digital) or unwanted audible distortion (analog).

So, to mix like in the 70s you need natural and old sounding sources and only a bit of compression and eqing and use rather wide bells and shelves.

But I haven't witnessed those times, so maybe other members know more about it.

 

You mean parametric?