bblackwood wrote on Tue, 22 February 2005 08:14 |
Please do report back - I'm interested in these as well...
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Spent most of the afternoon playing with the Algorithmix RED EQ. It does live up to the hype. It sounds really, really good. Head and shoulders above any other plugin EQ I've used, and definitely up there with the best analog stuff I have here.
To my ears it exhibits none of the common plugin eq traits, like weird high end edginess or boxy mids. It's the only digital eq I've ever used that doesn't kill the low end when using it to cut low freq mud. Very, very smooth and transparent, yet not sterile at all.
So sonically, it is excellent. The only drawback as far as I'm concerned, is that it is still a plugin - meaning that you're limited to mousing around a graphic display. In my case that means looking far off to the side at the monitor, which bothers me to no end. I feel like I have all this power at my finger tips, yet I can't possibly dial in the settings I want as fast as I want. That, to me, is very important.
I'm thinking about installing a small monitor into the console in front of me, just to display the EQs. Argh.
Anyway, well done, Algorithmix. I'm sold.