Dark Ride: 'Hammer Down'

[mikej]

I don't know everything either.  It's important for everyone to do their own research and come to their own conclusions.  A lot of this stuff can be tested in the daw. 

I should clarify that I generally don't worry about phase when it comes to eq.  I do worry about phase when it comes to checking that snare top and bottom mics are in phase and in alignment, checking individual drum mics with the overheads, and also mixing guitar cab mics with DI signals, etc.

Anyway, first off was the question about eq cuts and boosts.  I've attached 3 screenshots. 

There's a screenshot of a parametric cut.  I've attempted to match the resulting eq curve as best I can, with two shelving eq boosts (and a 6db volume cut).  The red line shows the resultant phase shift either side of the center frequency. (If you were to do a boost, the phase shift would be opposite).  The other screenshot is the resulting eq curves in an analyser (I used a dirac impulse sample to capture the curves).  One curve is in red, the other green.  You can see where the curves don't quite match up but I think I got it as close as I can with how the high and low shelf eq curves work on that eq. The phase change is not exactly the same but is quite close.