How to Make Your Digital EQs Sound More Analog

[@davidkey6623]

Always very enlightening to watch your videos or listen to the podcast! Thanks! Keep it up

[@Cautionary-Tales-Band]

This is exactly what I was looking for thank you

[@TomTaylorMade]

What an amazing deep dive down the rabbit hole. Love this

[@DMKahn]

Such a great video, thanks for all you do man

[@MrSRellz]

Very good tips. Another one I heard from one of Dan Worrells videos is that you can use Fabfilters Volcano 3 plug-in as a 4 band “vintage” Eq by utilising its non-linear vintage filters

[@vontreherumaiBH]

🤔🔥Dope vid. Wish I coulda heard the difference with some vocals in this video every time you changed it ! 😢

[@mikecarbone7214]

Hey Kendal...Thanks for the video. I just got back into music recently after taking a break for a while. I started listening to the podcast back in 2014 and am glad you are still making episodes. I think I've learned more from you than any other source. This is kind of driving me nuts at the moment and it's interesting that you posted a video about it. I have two pieces of analog gear. I have Seventh Circle Audio A12 (API clones) preamps, and Golden Age Projects EQ - 73s that were upgraded by revive audio. Admittedly I have only used waves and analog obsession plugins, but I think the plugins just can't do what the outboard gear does. If I do the same thing to the API or Nieve plug ins, like push the input hard on the preamp, or crank a frequency up a lot, it'll sound like crap in the plugin and still sound good on the analog gear. I guess that's just anecdotal, but that's my experience. I feel like plugins, at least the analog emulations that I have used, just can't do what analog gear does. What are your thoughts man?

[@RecordingLounge]

I think it depends on the plugin. There are some that get very, very close IMO. But a lot of them just don’t. Personally, most of the Waves ones just don’t do it for me. But a few of the UAD ones get quite close. Really just depends on the brand and even the specific plugin (like the UAD 1081 not having any harmonic distortion that I mentioned later in this video).

[@RecordingLounge]

For a cool Neve type plugin I def recommend the UAD 1084 or the Kit Plugins BB N105.

[@mikecarbone7214]

Awesome...Thanks Kendal. @@RecordingLounge

[@royalinvasionproductionstv6370]

Great stuff! Does the SSL E Channel add any color? Didnt see you show that part on the harmonics section...

[@RecordingLounge]

Depends which version (hardware vs the many many plugin iterations) but yes, the real thing DOES add some harmonic coloration. Not nearly as much as a Neve style or tube piece, but it’s got some. The Waves version to my knowledge has almost NONE but the Brainworx version does. The E/G are more colored than the J, which is very clean.

[@lilwombat]

I'm curious what hardware compressors look like in plugin doctor on the attack release page. Just wondering if they are majorly different to what they say.