The others, especially German/American Mastering are more specialty tools. Surge and Ely X are probably the most universal among those, with great flexibility and relatively clean, precise sound. What I mean by 'perfect' is that they are easy to dial in (limited frequency/gain choices are often helpful), sound great almost instantly which makes me happy, and add some kind of suitable texture or color to the music in addition to boosting or cutting some range of frequencies. There are certain times where the silky top end of a classic German broadcast EQ, super broad high mids of a Massive Passive or the pokey aggressive mids or low bass from a 5500 are perfect. And they're different enough from the other tools I have, complimenting my hardware nicely. More importantly, I just like the sound of them. It's hard to say why - I know several of those equivalent HW boxes well so the programs were immediately familiar. Or Alex's German Mastering, American Mastering, Ely X, and Massive Mix EQs. The 3rd-party Nebula libraries from Tim P and Alex B offer the best EQ programs for my taste. Now things are a bit different, but they're still among the best digital tools around (speaking of sound quality). When I started working with them many years ago, nothing really came so close to bringing analog EQ vibe into DAWs.
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