

Just gotta turn off the FFT analyzer every once and again and listen to what EQing does to the sound instead of only looking at it.

I’m not a big fan of AI mastering and those kinds of tools usually. After learning the audio profile you can apply Warm, Neutral, or Bright EQ shaping and adjust the amount. Chances are they'll come to Pro-Q 3 sooner or later anyways - better to familiarize onself with it from the start than wasting time on tools you won't use one day. Balancer is a collaboration between Sonible and Focusrite and is an artificial intelligence equalizer tool that quickly rebalances your source to fit various profiles. Then there are things that do stuff Pro-Q doesn't do - those are FF Volcano 3 for colouring EQ, allpasses and modulation (up to fairly complex stuff), and apulSoft apQualizr2/UVI Shade for even more complex modulation.Īnd then maybe something like TDR Nova or SlickEQ M/Pulsar Massive if you somehow need a parallel topology EQ exactly.Ī newbie might not need all of the functionality Pro-Q 3 provides, but they'll stop being a newbie eventually - and they will need tools that's adequate to their intent.

The only thing that can compete with it on equal footing for general purpose is the Kirchhoff-EQ mentioned above. Click to expand.Pro-Q 3 got 24 filters per instance, switchable mid-side-left-right for each individual filter, linear phase and minimum phase modes, and a switchable program-dependent dynamic EQ for each bell and shelf filter, including flat tilt.
