I haven't really tried usung the Quad Core EQ because I like the vintage emulations I get from Alloy 2. Not to mention the presets they have as well. Now that you've asked the question I will give it a whirl. The only EQ I use in the Sonar entourage is Sonitus... as a high pass to kill outside noise from hardware or the laptop in and of itself.
I also have the Waves C-6, but I find myself using the Izotope as my goto EQ. But anything you can enlighten me on about Quad Core or total EQ from A-Z? I'm all for it.

For really mission-critical mix decisions I always turn off my speakers and my screen and adjust EQ using the Force. I have a little pendulum I swing that tells me when it's just right. Except on a full moon, when the only way to really know for sure is by haru****y ... (Come on, click it. You know you need to know!)
 
Edit: That is way strange. The forum will not let me type that word. The missing letters are s, p, i and c. Why are those censored? No, don't explain, I get it, it just seems pretty heavy-handed... Here, let's try again: When I cook I use a lot of herbs and ****es. Interesting!

thaddeusjon
The only EQ I use in the Sonar entourage is Sonitus... as a high pass to kill outside noise from hardware or the laptop in and of itself.

I think you'll find the QuadCurve's lowpass and highpass filters more effective, because you can dial in 48 db/octave settings. To do that with the Sonitus I had to use several stages...much easier just to choose a slope and frequency.

The only time I use a different EQ in mixing now is when I want more than one stage of EQ in the ProChannel. For that, I put FabFilter in an FX chain. But if you could have more than one Quad Curve per channel, I don't think I'd even use that.
I very occasionally use FabFilter or the Ozone EQ for linear phase purposes, but that's really rare.

I find the different curves useful, and make use of cutting with this EQ more than boosting. Having the E and G type curves gives you much of what the SSL E and G EQs gave us and that's useful. I don't recommend looking at the graph when using these two. 'Pure' is excellent for cutting and notching. 
 
However, being able to use this EQ outside the ProChannel---and even outside Sonar would make it MUCH more valuable and useful to me. It's still easier for me to grab a 3rd-party EQ that does much of the same in the local channel FX bin than to have to access the ProChannel to use the EQ.

OT - I am also looking forward to the chance to play around with the +10 db EQ.
 
I think it can do some quite interesting things - reminiscent of the Pultec trick, thanks to the fact that the bands work in parallel, rather than series.
 
What does anyone else find with this one?
 
Anyhow, back OT, sorry.
 
 

Anderton
FYI Platinum has a flyout for the EQ that gives a really big display.

Thanks for the heads-up on that Craig.
 
However, I'm not planning on upgrading to Platinum yet, if at all. I'm reasonably happy with X2 and as total amateur I can't justify the cost at the moment.
 
Perhaps in the future 

I originally used this as a guide: http://blog.cakewalk.com/quadcurve-eq-demystified/
 
I use different curves based on the material, now prominent the item needs to be in the mix, etc. I may clone the same part two or three times, then use the different curves muting/unmuting between the interactions with different tracks. Personally, I really love the eq and the way it functions. 
 
I think a bevy of presets would be awesome. When feeling experimental, I'll flip through presets to give me ideas that I may not have come up with myself.

QUAD CURVE, I thought Craig was asking how many wavy lines I could make when I ride my Four wheel Honda Quad around the curves really fast.     
 
 
Peace,
 
Jesse G.
 
 
 

I worked it out but I still refer to the instruction manual every time just to make sure...the pure on mastering is a revelation!
http://www.cakewalk.com/D...help=ProChannel.6.html

I've read (and tried to understand) what each curve does, and have tried to put each into practice when searching for the "right" EQ on a particular sound.
I found it difficult at the beginning, but after much time, and listening, I am finally starting to hear the differences, and can even match what I'm looking at, to what I'm hearing some of the time.
I have never used a large format console in a "real" studio (I was never allowed to touch the dials). I don't have the ears to match what I'm hearing to any particular console, but I realise that is what those curves are trying to emulate.
Personally I've found this EQ to be almost everything I need, there are so many ways to alter the sound with this one EQ. I rarely use anything else unless I'm looking for a particular sound, or need an EQ "before and after", and need two or more EQ's on a particular sound.
Craig, any tutorial on how to use and setup a particular FX is going to be welcome and read by myself, and others I'm sure. The Quad Curve EQ has so many features it's surely welcome to be reminded of its many applications.

I switch around depending on what I need, but usually the first mode is sufficient on instrument tracks. I don't use it for EQ on the master bus.

BenMMusTech
The pure on mastering is a revelation!

Agreed, that's my favorite for general tone shaping.

BenMMusTech
I worked it out but I still refer to the instruction manual every time just to make sure...
 

I think that link really does a good job of explain the differences (as long as one understands concepts of basic EQ and Qs)
 
LOVE the Zoom out Quad Curve in the pro-channel.  I'm beyond shocked to see posts of other people looking to other plugins to do the same task.  
 
The ability to create and save presets would be nice as I use the EQ on most channels and frequently deal with similar settings for certain sources.