technically speaking... this eq is really made to improve your sound by giving it that vacuum tube warmth, you can pick out the freq. that you want this effect to be added to and you can control how much effect you put on it, its not really for shaping your total sound like a parametric eq would. For those that do a lot of composing, this would be awesome after you've done everything except your final mastering stage (I would definitely want this in front of any real compression for obvious reasons). But this eq is really dope, I mean so dope that I'm gonna buy it as apposed to getting it free from my internet resources...lol.