s.k. wrote:
steevio wrote:EQ and compression is totally unnecessary to make any component of electronic music if you synthesize your sounds correctly, and that takes practice and experience.
i dont see how this is true too. do you set all eq's on your mixer linearly, never boosting or cutting even the slightest? i thought so. doesn't a mixer overdrive, and is this not compression? does the same job nontheless because in a DAW if you boost you would normally use compression afterwards to even the response. you get my thoughtflow.
who can say where synthesis ends? i say EQ and comression are part of synthesis. so yes - synthesize it right!
edit: just to add to that slightly - many analogue synthesizers have slight eq/compression of some sort on the output. so if it's in the box it's synthesis, but if you use outboard - you're not synthesizing anymore? i would expect a more open thinking from someone with a modular setup. btw steevio, i always liked your sound man
i dont even have the EQ's switched in on my mixer. so please dont patronise me with 'thought so'
edit - i lied, i have one EQ switched in, this is for a HH88 808 hithat module, again this synthesis is out of my control, i have no control over how Analogue Solutions synthesized this sound, i'm not synthesizing it myself, and i dont like the sound of it.
no overdrive is not compression, its overdrive. you know what i mean by compression, dont try to twist it round to your argument.
again saying analogue synths have EQ on the output is irrelevant, as you have no control over this. we are talking about we can do with technique as synthesists here, this argument is weak.
and no outboard isnt synthesis, its outboard. you may have noticed that very few analogue synths ( if you know of any, please post ) have a controllable EQ on board. there has usually always been a seperation of the two processes, synthesis and recording process.
its exactly because i now use a totally modular set-up that i have come to the conclusion that EQ isnt necessary at all for me.
as far as i know there is no eurorack modules designed purely for EQ, i have 60+ modules, non of them are EQ modules, and i have never heard of any. if EQ was a major component of synthesis, dont you think there would loads available ?
its my opinion that anyone who thinks that EQ is totally essential to synthesis has not really explored synthesis deeply enough, but thats all it is, my opinion, just as yours is mate.
thank you for the kind words about my sound, you can be assured that no EQ was harmed during its construction