how good was the summer sale? (ie how much did the Passeq plug cost then?)

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i'll demo it - but any other opinions on it?

PA recently had a sale, $100 for any plug-in for the first 99 orders. Could have picked it up then but was still hung up on the digital eq question (how is it different from what you can do with a stock plug-in?)

My conclusion, it may be possible to match the curve I don't know, but it would take me so long to do if it it's at all possible that I'd sooner save money(time) by just buying Passeq. Not to mention phase responses although apparently we don't actually hear those as much as we think we do.

I do wish I picked up the Passeq.

In particular the bass is just excellent, but it has a certain way about cutting the low mid frequencies, on the LMF band if you just turn it slightly to cut very little, it is definitely not just cutting that one frequency in my opinion, it's like a very special curve that somehow takes out a lot of that fatiguing part of the audio, you do lose your information, but it does it so well that you wonder if you needed that information, as it sounds so easy to listen to without it. Less is more you know?

So, I see it as being excellent for individual parts. I did find the mid frequencies a little odd, when you cut or boost it just doesn't sound right, but maybe it needs the right material here. In general though we are so sensitive to those middle frequencies that they probably will always sound a little odd being boosted or cut when it's across an entire mix.

Again, a good general purpose EQ, and can polish your master like literally nothing else I've heard so far. It can give you a really big sound, it sounds very pro.

That said the GUI is so big and yet you can't hardly read the numbers, which just makes no sense tbh. You can hardly tell what you are doing so it's not very informative and this is one reason it takes time to get confident with it.

I'm hoping there will be another sale one day when I have some money, although I do feel it's worth it's asking price because it's one simple step to a much better and pro sounding final product. Infact it makes me sound like a much better producer than I am, but then I've often wondered, us home producer types, we try so hard and then one day you try something like the Passeq or a proper 1176 emulation or Duende Bus compressor and your suddenly awakened to the fact that perhaps this whole time you were at a disadvantage. That "aha" moment when you realize maybe it was your tools, because nothing gave your results quite like it and after, all those great sounding pro songs you've heard used great gear and I think that's half the battle.

Sitting there starting at your paragraphic EQ in the daw is one thing, having somebody who's studied EQ and recording their whole life design a brilliant EQ for you is just so much more sensible, I'm not looking to re-invent the wheel each time I make a track. That's my new attitude towards digital EQ. Some of them are just fantastic and it's hard, time consuming and sometimes impossible to replicate with a standard design.

$49 on mega-sale right now (or less with combined discounts)... could not resist!