Great demo of an original Pultec hardware EQ....

 

I don't see what you did there... but I guess someone does

 

I am far from being a mix expert - (unfortunately) these days everyone has to be to a point, at least to present their work. But if somebody asked me about the "magic" box, even plug.. this would be right at the top of my list!

Just by understanding a bit how the +/- thing works and fiddling around with knobs, I was able to get nice(r) sounding track. I always wanted to see graphically what this thing does. "Trust your ears" would be the obvious answer. Well, I don't (not after an hour or two). There was the (in)famous vst-analizer (only 32 bit ver.:/) ..discovered the waves Q-Clone can be used, if you make a feedback . Don't know of any other similar analysis tools..

 

I have two LINDELL PEX-500 series hardware EQs (Little Pultec tubeless 'clones') strapped across the mix buss (patched). I'll attenuate (turn down) the lows ~~100-120 Hz and below with the PEX, then add the lows back in using the PEX's gain. This adds a thick buttery low end back into the mix (transformer saturation). It's a PULTEC trick to kind of swap your low end for perfect buttery lows (just 2 knob twists). It rather counter-intuitive, but I can only imagine what using 2 original PULTECS would sound like!