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Using DigiRack EQ III

Using DigiRack EQ III

So the DigiRack EQ III serves as Pro Tools go to console EQ. It comes in three different flavors. 1-Band, 4-Band and 7-Band, all which sound identical, the only difference being the number of bands available. The DigiRack EQ is designed to be a clean, easy to use ChannelStrip EQ and it does just that. Because of its intuitive user interface, I find myself using it all over the place and I'm going to take you through the interface and explain equalization using the DigiRack EQ. So generally there are two different types of EQs that we are going to use in mixing. There's a graphic equalizer, which is going to have a certain number of fixed bands, 100Hz, 200Hz, 300Hz, 400 etcetera. You can't change the frequency of each band. You can either lower or boost the fixed frequencies and then there are parametric EQs and EQ III is a parametric equalizer. We are going to use these much more often in mixing because of their flexibility, because we can change things like the filter frequency and…

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