From the course: Audio Foundations: EQ and Filters

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Hardware and software EQ

Hardware and software EQ

From the course: Audio Foundations: EQ and Filters

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Hardware and software EQ

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Truth be told, there are more EQ and filter tools in the market than I care to count. It's no surprise that producers and engineers often become quickly overwhelmed with the number of choices. Even though all the complex interfaces, graphs, and knobs may look radically different from each other, the reality is that all equalizers today are pretty much designed on the same principles as the ones from a few decades ago, and learning the fundamental concepts behind them and the basic techniques for using them in your mixes translate surprisingly well across both hardware and software processors. Think about it this way. If you can drive a Honda, you can certainly drive a Toyota. It might take a few minutes to get used to the controls and you may not understand the full feature set that the car offers, but once you know how to drive, you can pretty much drive anything and get from point A to point B. Now some cars can zero to sixty in under five seconds, while others were designed to take…

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