Serato PARAMETRIC EQ User Manual

Parametric EQ

Serato Audio Research

Private Bag 34903 Birkenhead Auckland 1330 New Zealand

Telephone +64 9 480 2396 Facsimile +64 9 480 2397 Email support@serato.com Website www.serato.com

User Manual

Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

What’s Inside? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

What is the Rane Series Parametric EQ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

The Parametric EQ Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Band Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Band Filter Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Tone Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Cut Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

I/O Gains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

I/O Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Control Value Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Appendix A - Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing the Rane Series Parametric EQ. The Parametric EQ is one of the plug-ins that make up Serato’s Rane Series, which also includes a graphic EQ, a compressor, and a gate. The Rane Series plug-ins are based on Rane’s award-winning live sound hardware. They have been designed to provide both unique functionality and fantastic sound, we hope you enjoy them.

We trust you will find this manual useful in setting up and getting the best from your Serato product. If you require any assistance beyond the scope of this manual, including up-to-date information on troubleshooting, frequently asked questions, and tips & tricks for the Rane Series Parametric EQ, please visit our website at serato.com.

Many thanks - the team at Serato Audio Research.

What’s Inside?

Your Rane Series Parametric EQ box should contain the following items. If anything is missing please contact your dealer immediately.

1x Serato plug-ins Installation CD 1x Parametric EQ User Manual 1x Installation Guide + Serial Number

System Requirements

The following are the minimum system requirements for all of the Rane Series plug-ins.

Digidesign Pro Tools HD or Digidesign VENUE Mac OSX or Windows 2000 or better iLok key required for authorization

What is the Rane Series Parametric EQ?

The Rane Series Parametric EQ is a TDM plug-in for the Digidesign Pro Tools HD or VENUE platforms. It combines the pristine sound quality and excellent features of Rane’s top-of-the-line hardware, the PEQ 55, with the ease of a functional graphical user interface.

The Parametric EQ features 10 fully adjustable band filters that can be individually bypassed and set to bell filter, low- or high-shelf filtering. It also has 3 simple overall tone controls and a low- and high-cut filter pair to help shape your sound without sacrificing a filter band. The overall gain and phase change are graphically displayed on a color coded curve so you can see at a glance the overall effect your settings are having on the audio.

The Parametric EQ can be used in mono, stereo, and multi-mono modes.

The installer also includes presets to get you started in many common situations. By creating your own presets for commonly used microphones, instruments and other sound sources you will achieve a level of efficiency that is not possible with hardware systems.

The Parametric EQ Interface

1 Band Filters Displays a gain vs. frequency grid containing numbered icons representing the 10 parametric

EQ filters and a response curve representing the overall effect the plug-in is having on the audio. The band filter panel also contains the frequency, gain, and bandwidth controls that can be used to adjust any one of the 10 filter bands.

2 Band Filter Options Allow you to alter the type of band filter as well as activate and de-activate the individual

bands. This panel also has an overload indicator for each frequency band.

3 Tone Controls Offer a 3 band EQ for on-the-fly tuning of the overall sound.

4 Cut Filters Remove unwanted high or low frequencies from your mix with easy sweepable filters.

5 I/O Gains Allow you to adjust the levels of the signals going in to and coming out of the plug-in.

6 I/O Levels Display the peak and RMS levels going in to and coming out of the plug-in.

7 Scale Switches the I/O Level scale between dBFS and dBVU.

8 Control Value Editors Allow you to read and edit the value of any control.

+ 8 hidden pages