# Pultec setting on the master buss

**URL:** <https://community.mwtm.com/t/pultec-setting-on-the-master-buss/500>\
**Category:** Mixing\
**Tags:** uad, bass, eq\
**Created:** [November 2, 2023, 4:27am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/pultec-setting-on-the-master-buss/500 "2023-11-02T04:27:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![user470](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.mwtm.com/user470/32/79_2.png) [@user470](https://community.mwtm.com/u/user470)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 4:27am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/pultec-setting-on-the-master-buss/500/1 "2023-11-02T04:27:31Z")

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Hello Chris,  
So wonderful of you to answer our questions, thank you!  
I have seen on your videos how you use the Pultec EQ on the master buss. I remember you saying the Pultec you have is a mastering (or at least different) version of the more standard EQP1a and it has slightly different frequency points to choose from etc.  
What I can’t get my head around is how you can have the bass boosted so high, to 5 (correct me if I’m wrong!) as that is what it appears to be on the videos.  
When ever I try to boost past 2 or 3 I have way too much low end and its quite unusable, even when no other EQ is used on the mix.  
Do your Pultecs have a much more gentle boost than standard or does your console strip a lot of low end so that this boost is required? (I have heard some SSL consoles can take away some bottom end?)  
I am using plugin versions but have tried Apogee, UAD and Waves versions of the EQP1a, all with the same results.  
I get a great sound I enjoy with plenty of bottom end but with the bass boost on 1.5 at 100hZ. Any more than that and it becomes a boomy mess.  
Do you have any insight as to why this may be?

Thanks so much,  
Nigel.

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Lord-Alge](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.mwtm.com/chris_lord-alge/32/194_2.png) [@Chris\_Lord-Alge](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Chris_Lord-Alge)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 12:41am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/pultec-setting-on-the-master-buss/500/2 "2023-11-04T00:41:18Z")

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Hello Nigel ! Well yes the buss eq is a big part of the sound for sure !~ Im +4 at 70 and +4 at 3K shelf the are EQM-1S3 MASTERING EQ’S but i use them after my buss compressor and it works for me…try some hardware !