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[nmw]

with 5 x 24 switches theres a huge amount of overlap there.

i always think that the split of freqs on the sontec is just perfect though. with extra bands you could do alot worse for your design than just simply duplicating the bottom and top bands with these being selectable as peak or shelving. this would let you run with shelves at top and bottom and the three bands ala sontec or leave all as peak and have much more control and versatlity.

while i understand you may get some sontec references and would want to avoid this, its my feeling that a close second to the sound on this is the spot on nature of the switchable frequencies and the limited doubling of actual specific frequency points themselves. ive not used anything else iv ever felt did it as well and judging by how many still love theirs too its probably not much of a leap to think im not alone.
i really would use the word perfect for this.

band1; 11-570 shelf or peak
band2; 11-570
band3; 125-6800
band4; 3400-25k
band5; 3400-25k shelf or peak

[compasspnt]

Well Neil, you have said it.

I was trying to avoid it.

[ammitsboel]

chrisj wrote on Fri, 01 September 2006 00:56

ammitsboel wrote on Wed, 30 August 2006 08:25 An example is: Bass, >0-150 Lower mid-range, >150-800 Upper mid-range, >800-4K Treble, >4K-10K Flies, >10k-44.1k Any thoughts? Yes. It's difficult to get 0 hz output without an extremely large battery. Otherwise it runs out in a few days and you have merely 0.0000000000001 hz output

Hence the ">"

[e-cue]

Band 1 - 10- 160
Band 2 - 20 - 600
Band 3 - 200- 4K
Band 4 - 2K - 14K
Band 5 - 7k-40K

I'm a fan of eq's that sound different with the same settings on overlapping frequencies with different bands, but that's usually a feature better utilized for the mix engineer.  I'd try to keep the phase weirdness to a minimum on the top frequencies.  There's also a couple features in the digital eq realm (peak, slope, and dip controls on the top and low frequency) that I'd love to see achieved in the analog world.  Actually, if you added those 3 options, it would totally change the overlapping frequencies I listed, and probably allow the eq it be more focused on the mid range.  I assume it's just not possible or feasible.

I also think it shouldn't require Ilok authorization.

[craig boychuk]

It'd be nice if you could get the high shelf pretty low  - down to 1Khz or so.


HPF & LPF w/ tuneable slope would be good to have as well. Steep slope options would also be useful.


-craig

[masterhse]

craig wrote on Fri, 01 September 2006 15:12

It'd be nice if you could get the high shelf pretty low  - down to 1Khz or so. HPF & LPF w/ tuneable slope would be good to have as well. Steep slope options would also be useful. -craig

Resonant shelves would also be very cool. You would have at least one customer from the start.  

[Garrett H]

I want to second Bob B's comment that I would MUCH rather have .5 dB steps than lots of gain.  

If bands 1 and 5 have adjustable Q, that would be lovely.

Best,
GH

PS.  It should have a limiter.  We're going to need a limiter.

[Bob Boyd]

Bob Boyd wrote on Tue, 29 August 2006 16:40

Band 1: 20-200Hz Band 2: 80-800Hz Band 3: 400-4kHz Band 4: 1.6k-16kHz Band 5: 2.7k-27kHz

After some thought, I need to amend my original thoughts on the ranges.  I emailed this to Fred as well.  After I thought about some of the ways I work, I thought my original Band 2, 4, and 5 low points were too high.  While I'm sure Fred will come up with something better, this feels better to me than my first suggestion:

Band 1: 20-400Hz
Band 2: 40-800Hz
Band 3: 400-4kHz
Band 4: 800-16kHz
Band 5: 1.2k-27kHz

While not a 'must', I like being able to bypass unused bands.


BIG WISHLIST ITEM BELOW!!

Currently, my 2 main analog EQ's are a Maselec MEA-2 and a Manley Massive Passive.  Both of these EQ's are 4 band boxes and both of them offer shelving on all four bands.  Fred, since I'm guessing that the 2 high bands and the 2 low bands will have different but complimentary frequency selections, if you could make Bands 1 and 2 offer low shelving and bands 4 and 5 offer hi shelving, I think that would be a HUGE feature!


ULTIMATE ICING ON THE CAKE:
Like the MP, make the shelving bands bell/shelf selectable on a switch and allow the bandwidth control to adjust the slope of the shelf!