Frequency is really great obviously. The brickwall cuts it does on the low and high frequencies alone is money compared to the stock eq. Plus all the bands, the sidechain, etc. I literally put it on almost every channel as the 1st insert when working in cubase.
Is there a resource reason why Steinberg doesn’t make Frequency the default channel EQ? I don’t notice much of a different when I have like 15 tracks all with frequency on them. Would speed up work flow if this was an option. I saw this was a topic back on v10, but not much since.
What’s the reason steinberg doesn’t just make this?
Channel eq is based on an Ssl mixing desk, 4 band eq, on an ssl you get 4 eq knobs on cubase channels you get 4 eq knobs, this is standard for most mixing desks. Anymore is overkill, and used for sound designing or massive corrective work on poor audio.
The channel strip is IMO purposefully designed to be rather simple, to give you a set of basic tools for handling 80% of the mixing tasks quick and easily, like with a classic console (it already surpasses those in features). For the other 20% and for solving specific problems, you can and should go for the specialized plugins.
To many options are not always a good thing.
Also, Frequency is oversampled (thus uses more CPU), and in LP phase mode has inevitably quite some latency.
I consider the channel EQ a valid and very useful tool at the end of the signal chain (it’s usually inserted post-insert, except for the LP and HP filters, which are pre of the audio path) for any final refinements. Meanwhile, all the corrective and signal-characterizing tools are included in the inserts, including all the options offered by Frequency.
Personally, I don’t see its usefulness, but perhaps I would at least include a dynamics option on the four available bands.