Sep 8th, 2015
The DBX Sub Harmonic Synthesizer was truly an amazing unit, though they are getting hard to find. I owned one years ago, then used an ‘expounder’. Did 4 bands of dynamic EQ as well. Clever auto filter effect and 4 bands of parametric EQ. Now I use a Behringer DEQ-2496 multiband adjustable dynamic EQ, compressor or expander and 5 band digital parametric and 11 band EQ, and real time high sensitivity spectrum analyzer and digital converters the quality of Apogee and image, latency correction and… $300!! I still like analog EQ’s, but this Behringer is so accurate, dead quiet, can do tricks like a finalizer, etc. It’s hard to look back. No doubt older EQ’s have a sound character. Be aware most Orban equipment must be converted to run compatibly with modern grounding issues. Orban expects only to run ‘true’ ground lifted audio. Once an Audio signal has a grounded chassis shield (as all modern stuff now does, it will create a ground loop and also creates a supersonic oscillation. This may explain the criticism of the product in actual use but the design can easily be corrected. I’ve done it to all my Orban.
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