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Welcome to SOLID EQ

 

SOLID EQ brings the equalizer section of one of the most renowned studio mixing consoles of

all times into your studio by way of FX Framework.

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What Is an Equalizer?

 

An equalizer (EQ for short) is an essential audio processing tool that allows you to amplify or
attenuate specific parts of the frequency content in your audio signal.
Its name reminds its original purpose in telecommunications, namely correcting the frequency
content of a signal that might have been altered somewhere on the line — in short, equalizing
it again.
In the audio domain, though, the equalizer can be used in many more applications, including
creative ones, just to name a few:

Defining the bass content.

Adding sparkle to vocals.

Correcting unwanted resonances in your recordings.

Separating tracks with similar frequency ranges.

Modifying more frankly, or even creatively destroying your original sound.

Gains, Frequency Bands, and Response Curves

Equalizers allow you to apply various amounts of amplification or attenuation (called gains) to
different ranges of frequencies (called frequency bands). Basically, an equalizer can be seen as
a set of filters, each of them applying a certain amplification/attenuation to a particular fre-
quency band.
On each band, the boost/cut is not constant for all frequencies but rather continuously evolving
between both ends of the band. This is called the frequency response — also referred as the
“shape” of the band. Here are a few common shape types:

Welcome to SOLID EQ

What Is an Equalizer?

 

Solid EQ - Manual - 5

Summary of Contents for SOLID BUS COMP

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Page 4: ...Table of Contents 1 Welcome to SOLID EQ 5 1 1 What Is an Equalizer 5 1 2 The SOLID EQ 7 2 Using the SOLID EQ 8 2 1 The Menu Bar 8 2 2 The Main Interface 10 Table of Contents Solid EQ Manual 4...

Page 5: ...a few Defining the bass content Adding sparkle to vocals Correcting unwanted resonances in your recordings Separating tracks with similar frequency ranges Modifying more frankly or even creatively de...

Page 6: ...Graphic equalizers allow you to change gains for a certain number of fixed frequency bands Most of the time this type of equalizer provides you with a series of vertical gain faders each of them contr...

Page 7: ...his highly acclaimed channel strip This equalizer offers two fully parametric mid range bands and two semi parametric high and low bands and notably recreates the switchable E and G characteristics of...

Page 8: ...ther functions The Menu bar is located at the top of the interface Saving and Deleting Presets To save a preset 1 Click the drop down arrow to the very left of the Menu bar to open the File menu 2 Sel...

Page 9: ...in ing factory presets and one containing user presets By selecting a preset from the User sub menu the list of presets you have saved is brought to the front of the Preset menu and dis played below t...

Page 10: ...le menu also offers the following options Show User preset folder opens a system window in the location of where your presets are saved Here you can rename your presets by changing the file names Open...

Page 11: ...sections hold the following controls Control Description Hz or kHz knob Adjusts the band s center frequency Thus this parameter sets the overall position of that frequency band in the spectrum For the...

Page 12: ...ec trum 6 Curve switch Switches between two characteristics for the overall response curve of the EQ Both settings notably differ by their slope behavior G switch on the left With this setting the LF...

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