UA Please Retire Those Flat Sounding Ex-1 EQ's......

[twinbeatzrmp]

And add some cambridege sounding eq's with an ex-1 comp attached. Running two plugins on several trax to get what i want is killing me. I think everyone and the mama got the cambridge eq by now. If u dont then u must still be living in the dark ages or just one cheap son of a ...i mean the ex-1 eq's r cool but seem to add a hollowing phased sound when activated. Ok at least compromise with me, and add a cambridge combined with an ex-1 comp and ill buy it for 100 bucks(as long as it keeps it low uad load) Please can u help a brother out. No more new plugs. just make older plugins more managable and more useful. i dont think there is no need for more eq's and comps just a resourceful way to utilize the ones given. :wink: Thanks.I love U guys :lol:

 

[NuSkoolTone]

I have noticed the EX-1's if used a lot can add muddiness to a track. However they can add kind of a warm grunt if that's what's needed. They definetly have a sound they impart to the audio.

I use them in combination with the URS EQ's now and am really digging the combo.

 

[daverich]

you are absolutely sure you've disabled the modulator and room sim thingy?

Kind regards

Dave Rich

 

[twinbeatzrmp]

yeah im talkin bout the ex-1 not the cs-1....theyre cool for vocals but on music they seem to suck the life right out of it if used in abundance. but i love the way knobs are setup theyre perfect when it comes to the eq and comp interfaces and can be used for a variety of things. u could say this is my most frequently used plugin because of is simlpicity and effectiveness. its a plug that count on ALOT. but ive notice when used in abundance bad things happen. try it for urself just add the plug(dont touch any thing) high and low frequencies are lost. on background vocals i dont mind as much. but on music tracks, especially drum trax u need that top and bottom. thats y i use the cambridge in conjunction with the ex-1 comp so i get a smooth rounded eq with a smooth sounding comp

 

[Mark Edmonds]

try it for urself just add the plug(dont touch any thing) high and low frequencies are lost.

Psychological I'm afraid. The EX-1 nulls on a polarity inversion test. There is no change.

Also, in my cloth-eared strictly humble opinion, there is little wrong with this EQ. Nice, simple, clean and perhaps, only just perhaps, a little soft. Light on DSP too. I agree that it doesn't have the flexibility of Cambridge, nor that plugin's superior shelving filters but for your average parametric tweaking, it is more than up to the job and virtually indistinguishable from Cambridge to my ears.

Mark

 

[Eurocide]

I can also confirm that there is no change at all when loading the EX-1 and swichting every band on in zero position.

 

[Guest]

I havent bought the cambridge becuase i dont have the money not because im cheap.

 

[Arys Chien]

If I only want to do some cutting, I'd use the EX-1's eq sometimes. Only cutting, never boosting with it.

Yet I never used its compressor on serioius projects. Sounds to me it adds fuzziness, instead of warmth.

 

[Paul Woodlock]

I can also confirm that there is no change at all when loading the EX-1 and swichting every band on in zero position.

It doesn't NULL here, as Mark E will remember me saying before.

I've never really spunked over the sound of the EX-1 EQ. I was soooooooooooooo glad when the Cambridge appeared

 

[Suntower]

If u dont then u must still be living in the dark ages or just one cheap son of a ...i mean the ex-1 eq's r cool but seem to add a hollowing phased sound when activated.

Please chill.

I'm old enough (and poor enough) to remember selling enough 'obsolete' stuff to fill a house; always superceded of course, by 'the wave of the future'. Well, right now, somewheres, there's a guy making perfectly good music with a Commodore 64 chip and a Fender Jazzmaster.

So my take? NEVER discontinue -anything-. Just wait long enough and even the skinniest ties start lookin' really fashionable again.

---JC
My kitchen is done up in Harvest Gold and Avocado :mrgreen:

 

[twinbeatzrmp]

I can also confirm that there is no change at all when loading the EX-1 and swichting every band on in zero position.

It doesn't NULL here, as Mark E will remember me saying before.

I've never really spunked over the sound of the EX-1 EQ. I was soooooooooooooo glad when the Cambridge appeared

the cambridge has a more tubed eq sound, the ex-1 doesnt. but i still love the ex-1 comp. its nice simple and flexible

 

[twinbeatzrmp]

I can also confirm that there is no change at all when loading the EX-1 and swichting every band on in zero position.

ok ill agree there are no frequency changes but there is a change in the audio. try switching the power button on just the eq part of the ex-1. u will hear a difference. add this change times ten in a mix and ur in for some bad muddy results. cambridge eq's please!!!

 

[twinbeatzrmp]

If I only want to do some cutting, I'd use the EX-1's eq sometimes. Only cutting, never boosting with it.

Yet I never used its compressor on serioius projects. Sounds to me it adds fuzziness, instead of warmth.

Really?? i think the comp is clean. i think its a solid comp for all. try switching off the power to the eq portion of the ex-1 and see if u find a difference.....

 

[twinbeatzrmp]

I havent bought the cambridge becuase i dont have the money not because im cheap.

 

[twinbeatzrmp]

I havent bought the cambridge becuase i dont have the money not because im cheap.

well u should. i dont know what r u doin without it. especially on lead vox...sweet....thats one plug i say thats a must have for small load multiple processing

 

[twinbeatzrmp]

Psychological I'm afraid. The EX-1 nulls on a polarity inversion test. There is no change.

Also, in my cloth-eared strictly humble opinion, there is little wrong with this EQ. Nice, simple, clean and perhaps, only just perhaps, a little soft. Light on DSP too. I agree that it doesn't have the flexibility of Cambridge, nor that plugin's superior shelving filters but for your average parametric tweaking, it is more than up to the job and virtually indistinguishable from Cambridge to my ears.

Mark

thats where i think ur wrong. as soon as the cambridge is applied it rounds out any track. and the eq's...way different. especially in the top and ends. even when over eq'ing it still sounds good. doesnt stick out of the mix. another reason is that it also has a low dsp load. so y not the better eq if it isnt sacricing any extra dsp load?