I never use my EQ knobs. Am I missing something?

[Jester]

no eq's huh ... 12 second itunes crossfade?

[keeb]

And as a general rule in production, live sound and DJing you should never BOOST eq, only cut. Boosting will screw up your gain structure like all sorts of hell.

I agree with the rest of your post, but I wouldn't say _never_ boost. I'd say to avoid boosting when possible because generally the same effect can be reached with cuts, but often boosting frequencies can be helpful especially with production. Just need to watch the levels.

[fullenglishpint]

If you weren't meant to boost sometimes, the knobs wouldn't go past 12.

[BradCee]

If you weren't meant to boost sometimes, the knobs wouldn't go past 12.

this, there's a reason they go up as well as down...

[MrPopinjay]

Just because you can doesn't mean it's a good idea.

This is all silly logic. I think the reason they go past 12 is that DJs would bitch that they have lost a (relatively useless) feature)

[BradCee]

Just because you can doesn't mean it's a good idea.

next time i'm jumping puddles i'll try to remember that

[fullenglishpint]

I rarely go about 12, sometimes with the mids, but I'm sure there are perfectly valid DJ workflows that use the feature regularly.

It does undoubtedly give you an easy way to completely ruin your sound quality with ignarant usage, but hey.

[BradCee]

I rarely go about 12, sometimes with the mids, but I'm sure there are perfectly valid DJ workflows that use the feature regularly.

It does undoubtedly give you an easy way to completely ruin your sound quality with ignarant usage, but hey.

handy when you've got a track that isn't as well mastered as the currently playing one, say the hi's are a bit muddy, you can bring them up a bit...

[MrPopinjay]

next time i'm jumping puddles i'll try to remember that

That's a good idea because it is awesome.

[BradCee]

That's a good idea because it is awesome.

for once we agree..