So, what's a better way? Let's see your not terrible advice.
> resonances of your room/speakers/headphones
Yet the frequencies that stand out depend so much on the input material, and arent't the same between recordings in different rooms or with different mics, even with the same playback setup. Weird.
As the manual of that VST so terribly states
> This is an excellent tool to correct a boxy low-endsound, even out resonances in a recording or reduce excessive sibilance in a vocal part.
Sure, they don't outline this specific approach, but others do, sadly:
> In my experience visual analysis won’t usually help a great deal here, and you have to adopt more of a ‘hunt and peck’ approach, sweeping a narrow EQ boost around the spectrum and then placing an EQ cut wherever the boost sounds most unappealing
Of course, since you said it's such terrible advice, my ears noticing the results are probably lying to me, and I can hardly wait to find out how to do it correctly at last.
If you are going to use that technique, don't use extreme Q settings, because as I said you are mostly going to be finding resonances that aren't actually in the signal, but are part of listening in your specific environment. Granted you will find some of the problem frequencies from the source, but with a much lower Q you're at least less likely to find stuff that isn't. EQ should be applied gently, if you require extreme settings then you have a shitty source material, take some steps to correct that. There are no pro-spec EQ hardware units that offer such extreme Q settings, because they are next to useless except in extremely limited circumstances.
Just because something is repeated a lot doesn't automatically make it a great idea: see "Brexit means Brexit" or "Build The Wall" for examples.
> resonances of your room/speakers/headphones
Yet the frequencies that stand out depend so much on the input material, and arent't the same between recordings in different rooms or with different mics, even with the same playback setup. Weird.
As the manual of that VST so terribly states
> This is an excellent tool to correct a boxy low-endsound, even out resonances in a recording or reduce excessive sibilance in a vocal part.
Sure, they don't outline this specific approach, but others do, sadly:
https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/q-how-do-pinpoint-...
> In my experience visual analysis won’t usually help a great deal here, and you have to adopt more of a ‘hunt and peck’ approach, sweeping a narrow EQ boost around the spectrum and then placing an EQ cut wherever the boost sounds most unappealing
And it just goes on and on :(
http://indierecordingdepot.com/t/how-do-i-find-resonant-freq...
Of course, since you said it's such terrible advice, my ears noticing the results are probably lying to me, and I can hardly wait to find out how to do it correctly at last.