The parts of this tutorial are designed to be read in sequence, not individually.
Special note (May 2006):
I wrote this three years ago. Today... I might not even agree with all of it. I'm not sure. I haven't read it in a long time. However people still seemed to find it helpful and requested it was rehosted, so I am making it available online "as is". I have not updated this in any way - I haven't even fixed the typos, or turned my horrible tag soup into valid xhtml. It's just my original drafts from 2003.
Yes, I know it's an insult calling it a "complete" eq and compression tutorial, when I still haven't written anything about compression. I've been learning how compression works before attempting to spout off about it ;]
Please don't email me / PM me asking when the compression bit will be done. Rest assured, when I finally write it, you will know about it... it's not like I would write an article then hide it ;]
All I can say is that it will be done when it's done, and no amount of requesting is likely to speed it up!
In the meantime, searching the grid for "compression" and/or "dynamics" with my username, will get you 90% of what the article is likely to say, if you're prepared to read a bunch of threads and live without my terrible pictures.
Finally (and I'm afraid I have to say this...)
This article is copyright © 2003-2006 stephen mercer, (yes that's me), so please respect it. You are free to do what you want with it for personal, non-commercial use (print it, pdf it, etc). But you do not have permission to rehost, redistribute or publish it in any way. If you're wondering why -- you might think more hosts are better and you're doing me a favour? -- well, one of these days I might revise and update it, and I want all copies of it to be under my direct control, so that there isn't an orphaned outdated version somewhere I cannot update.
Most of all, you can't make money from it via any commercial use at all, and you can't redistribute it under your, or anybody else's, name. I wrote it, and I don't want money, I'm just happy so long as nobody steals my credit.
I hope it's still helpful after all these years...
cheers,
steve aka hipnotic