Alex had also taken a sensible approach to EQ as far as small-studio, in-the-box mixing is concerned, conserving processing resources by using Cubase&#039;s built-in EQ for everyday clutter-removal and frequency-balancing purposes, and then breaking out higher quality, DSP-hungry plug-ins (such as Universal Audio&#039;s UAD2 Pultec and Neve analogue models) only where more extensive subjective tonal sculpting was required.