One major feature of equivocate is the match EQ. You can feed the sidechain with pink or white noise or even a reference track and equivocate will try to adjust your track's spectrum to the reference. I don't know how good it is compared to other match EQ features, such as that on fabfilter, but at least it will give you a starting point. Twenty-six bands isn't too bad especially since you can set their center frequencies as you like
Oh wow, thanks for mentioning! I've actually been using the EQ section in Elevate a little bit lately, and enjoying how transparently it can make fine adjustments. Can really make a nice difference - wasn't aware of the match feature in Equivocate, but I'll take a look soon.
I think the transient module literally comes after the limiter.... It's a way to restore transients after they've been squashed a bit by the limiter....
Good question! The other limiters I’ve used a lot are Ozone’s Maximiser and Limiter No6 (well, and the Ableton one). Ozone tends to go ‘floppy’ a lot easier. I was using IRC3’s Clipping mode a little bit which doesn’t go as mushy as the other modes, but it does start to degrade and sound like clipping when really pushed. I think also the built-in transient emphasis is fantastic. It’s probably possible to get similar results but I have never really trusted a transient shaper on the master (although should experiment!). For Saturate I think it’s just a really nice tool to have - something that can push levels that hard without breaking down, I haven’t found anything else. It’s not just a waveshaper like a lot of saturators, so it’s one of those special tools. Punctuate has the most insane transient emphasis - I was getting +20db out of it from memory, which I haven’t seen others do .. and it seems incredibly precise on different material. Like it will largely ignore hihats, but still catch kick/snare transients - I don’t know whether that was just luck or not, but it’s lovely to drop a tool in and it Does The Right Thing. EQuivocate .. I still use ProQ2 or TDR Nova when I need a Fancy EQ, it’s just a bit beyond me - I kind of understand what it’s doing, but aside from gentle transparent changes I find the traditional UI of other tools easier to work with. Sorry about the novel! :)
@@TMechMusic I was curious... It is spectral tool after all... So wouldn't spliting a channel and fusing it back thru so many bands caused some phase issues?
I've been watching reviews on this and just bought it. The main multi-plugin looks the most useful. I wonder if I could have just bought that without the other 'break-out' plugins? ps. my music is more vocal/ acoustic/ elec guitar so I hope it's still as useful to me as what these demos I've seen it push a mix a lot louder without overdrive. thanks for the walk through
Oh cool, it's a great limiter. I have used it on some friend's 'less-electronic' music and had good results there too. Still clear and transparent, with only a few controls. Hope you get as much mileage out of it as I do.
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One major feature of equivocate is the match EQ. You can feed the sidechain with pink or white noise or even a reference track and equivocate will try to adjust your track's spectrum to the reference. I don't know how good it is compared to other match EQ features, such as that on fabfilter, but at least it will give you a starting point. Twenty-six bands isn't too bad especially since you can set their center frequencies as you like
Oh wow, thanks for mentioning! I've actually been using the EQ section in Elevate a little bit lately, and enjoying how transparently it can make fine adjustments. Can really make a nice difference - wasn't aware of the match feature in Equivocate, but I'll take a look soon.
That transient emphasis makes a huge difference. Just got it discounted, can't wait to use it for myself.
Excellent! It's a great set of tools. I was just abusing the transient shaper yesterday to good result. :)
Really great video, thanks.
Thanks! :)
I think the transient module literally comes after the limiter.... It's a way to restore transients after they've been squashed a bit by the limiter....
Very interesting set of tools! What do you think the benefits are to using these instead of some other well known mastering tools such as fabfilter?
Good question! The other limiters I’ve used a lot are Ozone’s Maximiser and Limiter No6 (well, and the Ableton one). Ozone tends to go ‘floppy’ a lot easier. I was using IRC3’s Clipping mode a little bit which doesn’t go as mushy as the other modes, but it does start to degrade and sound like clipping when really pushed. I think also the built-in transient emphasis is fantastic. It’s probably possible to get similar results but I have never really trusted a transient shaper on the master (although should experiment!).
For Saturate I think it’s just a really nice tool to have - something that can push levels that hard without breaking down, I haven’t found anything else. It’s not just a waveshaper like a lot of saturators, so it’s one of those special tools.
Punctuate has the most insane transient emphasis - I was getting +20db out of it from memory, which I haven’t seen others do .. and it seems incredibly precise on different material. Like it will largely ignore hihats, but still catch kick/snare transients - I don’t know whether that was just luck or not, but it’s lovely to drop a tool in and it Does The Right Thing.
EQuivocate .. I still use ProQ2 or TDR Nova when I need a Fancy EQ, it’s just a bit beyond me - I kind of understand what it’s doing, but aside from gentle transparent changes I find the traditional UI of other tools easier to work with.
Sorry about the novel! :)
no problem, thanks for the reply!
@@TMechMusic I was curious... It is spectral tool after all... So wouldn't spliting a channel and fusing it back thru so many bands caused some phase issues?
I've been watching reviews on this and just bought it. The main multi-plugin looks the most useful. I wonder if I could have just bought that without the other 'break-out' plugins? ps. my music is more vocal/ acoustic/ elec guitar so I hope it's still as useful to me as what these demos I've seen it push a mix a lot louder without overdrive. thanks for the walk through
Oh cool, it's a great limiter. I have used it on some friend's 'less-electronic' music and had good results there too. Still clear and transparent, with only a few controls. Hope you get as much mileage out of it as I do.