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I found this useful in my own experiments, and thought I would pass it along to the group. I fed pink noise into each of Breakaway’s presets, and charted the output of each preset using Leif’s RTA. This gives a visual aid in locating presets that might be closer to your desired EQ.
This ZIP file contains the full-size graphs for all presets.
Here’s a few small thumbnails of the graphs:
Each of these was measured with the sliders in the default position, 75 uS pre-emphasis and then de-emphasis, 16 KHz bandwidth, no HPF, no stereo enhancer, no plug-ins. So, your mileage clearly will vary! 😀
I’ve also been using this to compare different presets with each other.
For example, you could look at the Plutonium / Eruption / Rustonium family:
Hi Celar,
Excellent Post! That will be most useful when working with the PEQ controls. Thanks a lot! 🙂
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May be this is the best post i have ever seen in this forum !!!
Well Done Celar 🙂
The graphs are nice. But in my opinion, this only gives you an indication of the main equalizing-settings in the different presets. I mean, when you add a constant noise or tone(s) at the input, the compressor ajusts the output to this ‘basic’ pre-programmed settings and takes it’s time for it.
When you send ‘real’ material into it, the processing graphs may be different. Thats why I wouln’t rely on this graphs to much and just listen to the sound 😉.
But again, it’s nice to see what the basic settings are look like 🙂
Yes definitely! Pink noise is by no means representative of real programming material. And the biggest limitation of using pink noise, of course is: it has no dynamics. So these graphs don’t show how each preset reacts to music.
In a situation where I’m looking for a different EQ, I use these graphs only to get a general visual reference of which presets would be best to try. Then it’s necessary to listen carefully to make the final determination, as you pointed out.
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