The rest of the time the EQ will lay dormant leaving your beautiful rich sound unaffected. With Gliss EQ you can surgically cut the offending frequencies, but by turning up the dynamic control the EQ will only kick in when the guitar input reaches a certain amplitude, i.e. A great deal of a guitar’s presence and character comes at around the 3kHz mark and so by applying a blanket EQ you will dull the sound for the entire track. However, unless you automate the EQ on/off for each peak in the whole track, that notch is going to be affecting the guitar sound regardless of whether or not it’s an unwanted peak or the desirable signal. Using a regular EQ, you could make a notch at 3k to remove offending frequencies. To illustrate, imagine you have a lovely twangy guitar track but every now and then there’s a harsh peak 3kHz that jumps out of the mix to assault your eardrums. The first and most important is that Gliss is a ‘dynamic’ EQ, meaning that the effect on a certain frequency band can be modulated by the amplitude of that frequency band in the input signal (I say ‘can be’ because Gliss has a dynamic control that lets you blend between a fully dynamic and a regular EQ for each frequency band). I’ll just run through the two key features of the Gliss EQ seeing as all the info is on the website if you want to dive deeper. Gliss is delicate, transparent and responsive with an intuitive interface and a vast range of capabilities, not some messed up meth-baby plugin. The metaphor is important because what Gliss EQ is NOT is the result of a CLA-76 and your DAW’s inbuilt EQ frantically rutting in the park after a hasty tinder date at Burger King. Everything moves at just the right pace and nine-and-a-bit months later, voila! Gliss EQ is born. They ditch their friends and head out for candlelit tapas followed by coffee back at her place. Imagine a suave Mediterranean sidechain compressor locking eyes with a beautiful quirky EQ across a crowded salsa bar. I’ll run through two audio effects with side by side audio comparisons, my favourite synth I’m currently using and my favourite sample set. Thought I’d do a quick rundown of four of my favourite plugins I’m using on current projects.