Waves Q-Clone EQ Modeling

[David Correia]

Any users/comments? Am wondering whether to get it.


David Correia
www.Celebrationsound.com

[belolab]

Love it at $50!!!

[mickelini]

It's great.

[dtmprod]

How does it work exactly? Seems like you have to go thru and try various EQ curves to match what you're trying to alter. Can you actually go in and manually adjust an EQ point up or down? Otherwise it seems rather fiddly & cumbersome to find a 'preset' that exactly matches your current need. Anybody expound further pls?

[danander11]

The idea behind Q-Clone is that you can shoot a signal through any bit of analog gear you have and save the result as a preset...

For myself, I had a couple of tube EQ's and a EL-8x that I liked to record my personal snares through.. Since I have a number of snares and set the eq/comps differently for them I found that by saving presets for each allowed me to mic up the snare the next time I was going to use it, fire up Q-clone with the preset I was looking for, and I would have a excellent starting point for recording the next time with no fiddling around... I fire it up and record just that quick. Then I could fine-tune at mix time if it needed it.

That's only one application... the possibilities with Q-Clone are only limited by what you want to use it for.

There are a number of packs out there as well by guys like Henry Olonga (sp?) that will give you a ton of presets that might help you get closer to what you want to achieve if you don't own any outboard gear yet.

It's not meant to be an eq that you use for tweaking and such.

However, it's digital and you can do what you want with it.

[belolab]

Love it.