FR: Enhance Nuendo EQ level and "Q" settings.

[John Lance]

I am finding the Nuendo eq "Q" and level settings too course: completely incapable of sufficiently fine adjustment in some situations.

I am okay with the frequency. You can directly enter those and a resolution of 0.1Hz seems sufficient, even when operating in the tens of Hertz.

The "Q" and level setting capability to me is not adequate. Jumps of 0.1 are entirely too large for many situations. A resolution for the "Q" and level settings would be much better in the hundredths.

This is making the difference between usable and not usable in several situations. I've found myself reaching for the Nuendo EQ more often now that it sounds good, but too often this keeps me from using it.

I know some folks may think I am crazy, but I know I am not.

There are combinations of boosts and cuts, with the resulting in-between response that gets SEVERELY affected by the capabilities here.

Can anyone find a good reason to accommodate thousandths here?

It's off to Cambridge I go and even that won't do hundredths on the level but it does on the "Q"... or (shudder), consider an OTB experience.

[kdm]

I agree - Nuendo's EQs in general are too coarse, but are in fact good EQs. The Studio EQ and the channel EQ both have too wide ranges - 30 and 24 db each - should be adjustible down to 6db, or even a pref to default to that. I never find myself boosting or cutting by 24 db, unless it's a HPF cutoff.

[John Lance]

Thanks for spelling the correct coarse of course! :D

Brain pharrrrt here. Happens from time to time.

[kdm]

John, if you want another option for a very good, flexible EQ, check out Flux (http://www.fluxhome.com). ePure is transparent, has flexible bands, adjustable range, manual entry for finer resolution (not sure why shift doesn't currently give you a finer range). Their plugins are also multichannel, with a channel group/routing matrix to reassign outputs, or group, for example, front L/R as a stereo pair, etc. I use it for more critical channel EQ needs.

Solera is a great comp/exp/d-comp/de-expander - more capabilities than most higher end transparent compressors. You can demo these (I think you need an iLok).

Great plugins. Not inexpensive, but not too bad for the flexibility.

[John Lance]

Thanks for the link. I'm checking it out now.