yea but when you make huge boosts on an EQ to change the fundamental properties of a particular sound you eat up your own headroom. if you make significant cuts on an EQ to that same sound you will take something away from it and it will lose part of its energy. most of the time i ever use EQs its a trade off. im either sacrificing headroom or trying to gain it. in somewhat rarer instances i EQ very tentatively just to shape some of the sound that i couldnt on a filter. when i try to gain headroom i come to the inevitable question of what part of the sound i want to dominate, which parts to recess and which synth parts wil cover up some of the recessed sound as a result of heavy EQing.
virus is dark out of the box. its bassy out of the box. its arguably what it does best - why fight it?!
