[vanillawafer]

Well I was reading gerG's review of the DEQ2496 and how much of a difference an EQ can make. Now I'm wanting one of those Ber DEQ2496 EQ's, but first I wanted to find out if anyone knows of a really good EQ for the PC. Since my source is the PC with the E-MU 1212m, is there a really good EQ software add-on I could add to the mix... besides the one in Foobar, I don't think I really like that EQ very much.

 

[lan]

Did you read your emu box or manual? It has one

 

[vanillawafer]

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Originally Posted by lan Did you read your emu box or manual? It has one

Yes, did you read my post? I sad a good one

 

[blessingx]

There's a ton of VST plugins out there. If you have a stream capture prog (I use Audio Hijack Pro, but I'm on an OS X machine so can't help you on a PC) that opens up a lot of choices. Do a search for VST EQ on Yahoo/Google. This lists a few.

Classic EQ seems to get positive reviews and is or was free.

 

[ooheadsoo]

VST plugins aren't for playback, are they?

 

[lan]

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Originally Posted by vanillawafer Yes, did you read my post? I sad a good one

Well you never said what you did or didn't try. So you did try the emu's EQ? DId you try foobar's convolver with your own impulses?

 

[gerG]

I still use blueparameq with winamp (direct-x plugin). Unfortunately I don't know what to use with itunes on the pc yet. I am curious as well what is accessible right now.


gerG

 

[vanillawafer]

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Originally Posted by lan Well you never said what you did or didn't try. So you did try the emu's EQ? DId you try foobar's convolver with your own impulses?

I was just messing with ya. Yeah, I've tried the E-MU EQ, in fact I'm trying it again right now, and It's actually not that bad, although I can't say I've heard "nirvana" to know what to compare it too. I just thought that since a lot of the hype about the deq2496 was the digital in's & out's I thought well since my source is the E-MU 1212m, I'm digital at that point already, why not add an EQ to the mix on the computer, and I think the E-MU EQ will work for me. Do you see/know any issues with the 1212m's EQ? No, I haven't tried the foobar convolver, and to be honest, I wouldn't know where to start with it.

 

[lan]

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Originally Posted by vanillawafer I just thought that since a lot of the hype about the deq2496 was the digital in's & out's I thought well since my source is the E-MU 1212m, I'm digital at that point already, why not add an EQ to the mix on the computer Do you see/know any issues with the 1212m's EQ? No, I haven't tried the foobar convolver, and to be honest, I wouldn't know where to start with it.

I've been looking at the DEQ2496 lately also but for room correction functions. Take note that the DAC/ADC on the emu is better than the DEQ and doing a digital transfer will add some jitter. So you may take a performance hit in clarity. So consider the price of the unit and 2 digital cables is probably ~400. I think you can probably use patchmix to do an output to go to behringer then come back to the emu for DAC function. I don't know if the net positive effect is worth that money.

The only thing with emu DSP effect is they only work in 44.1 and 48khz. You also can't do anything <80hz with the EQs. I havn't really used much of it to evaluate it's quality.

 

[vanillawafer]

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Originally Posted by lan I've been looking at the DEQ2496 lately also but for room correction functions. Take note that the DAC/ADC on the emu is better than the DEQ and doing a digital transfer will add some jitter. So you may take a performance hit in clarity. So consider the price of the unit and 2 digital cables is probably ~400. I think you can probably use patchmix to do an output to go to behringer then come back to the emu for DAC function. I don't know if the net positive effect is worth that money. The only thing with emu DSP effect is they only work in 44.1 and 48khz. You also can't do anything <80hz with the EQs. I havn't really used much of it to evaluate it's quality.

Yeah, that is true, the way I planned on using it, EMU -> DEQ2496 -> EMU could possibly introduce some jitter, so that might not be the way to go. As far as working at 44.1 and 48khz, I didn't know that, but I don't do any upsampling, I run out of foobar using ASIO at 44.1, so that's not a problem, but the <80hz is a big stinky one, that really sucks. Thanks for your info on this, I guess a good software solution is looking more and more like the route I want to go, anyone know if there is any software out there that can produce the same quality EQ(ing) as that of the DEQ2496.

 

[cosmopragma]

Bump looking for recommendations of audiophile grade software EQs, free would be nice but not a must.

 

[blessingx]

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Originally Posted by ooheadsoo VST plugins aren't for playback, are they?

Yes, if as I mentioned, they're used with a 'stream capture prog'. VSTs (or any plugin) can only do what their parent program can. Like I said, I use them for real time playback with Audio Hijack Pro.

 

[vanillawafer]

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Originally Posted by blessingx Yes, if as I mentioned, they're used with a 'stream capture prog'. VSTs (or any plugin) can only do what their parent program can. Like I said, I use them for real time playback with Audio Hijack Pro.

Anyone know of anything similar to Audio Hijack Pro for the PC? Or a really nice player for windows that uses VST plugins?