EQ

Three bands, low, mid and high, each with its own gain

Open in the synth with a demo patch Open Modular

What it does

EQ raises or lowers three regions of the spectrum. The low shelf acts on everything below the Low frequency, the high shelf on everything above the High frequency, and the middle band is a bell around Mid whose width is set by Q (narrow at 5, wide at 0.5). Each band's gain runs from −18 to +18 dB. Unlike a filter, an EQ does not cut things off, it colours: take out rumble at the bottom, add air at the top, notch out a nagging midrange.

Try this

Cut muddy mids with EQ or give the low end more weight.

Ports

in: Audio in
out: Audio out

Parameters

Low · Low dB · Mid · Mid dB · Q · High · High dB

Try this

Low −6 dB and High +4 dB is the fastest way to make a pad airy and clear the mud under a drone.
A narrow mid (Q 6) at +10 dB and a slow sweep of Mid from 300 to 3000 Hz: a hand-driven wah with no filter.
Cut Low by −10 dB before a Reverb: the tail gets cleaner and stops booming.

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