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You can create almost any EQ curve from vintage and harware EQs on your DAWs standard EQ so does that make expensive emulations a ripoff or is there more to it?

Here I try to replicate some of the curves produced on software EQs and my hardware Elysia Xfilter. All are a lot more expensive option than using the stock channel EQ in your DAW so why would anyone go for the more expensive option?

Well.. there's more to it than the curves, there's harmonic distortion caused by hardware components, as well as phase shifting. So I take a look at both of these as well.. can you hear a difference? Does it really matter? Or are the settings and parameter interactions from the emulations a shorthand for getting musical curves?

Lots of questions..

Essentially, why on earth would anyone buy a third party EQ? Let's find out :)

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0:00 whats this all about a look at a Pultec EQ
5:10 Logic EQ vs Elysia Hardware
8:00 What can a DAW's EQ do?
9:36 Some Software options
12:04 Audio Tests
13:06 Phase Cancelling
13:54 How Phase works with EQ
15:23 Emulations vs DAW .. for and against
17:00 Phase
19:57 Harmonic Distortion
23:20 So..are they a ripoff?