Solo

Double-click any band disc to solo it. Outboard-EQ has two ways to listen to a soloed band — pick the one that fits the task.

Solo modes

The footer pill Solo Mode picks between the two listening behaviours globally:

MuteOthers

The classic FabFilter-style behaviour. Soloed bands stay wet (their full EQ + dynamics + character processing); all other bands fade their EQ contribution out so you hear only the soloed band's effect on the input signal. This is the default and matches every legacy preset bit-for-bit.

BandpassListen

Pro-Q 4-style monitoring. The soloed band drives a clean bandpass on the dry input — you hear the raw spectral content at the band's centre frequency and Q, without any processing. Ideal for resonance hunting: sweep a band across the spectrum in BandpassListen mode and listen for what the band would catch before deciding what to do.

Engaging solo

• Double-click the band disc on the EQ display.
• Right-click the band disc → Solo.
• Click again or double-click again to release.

Multiple bands can be soloed at once — the modes apply additively. In MuteOthers, all soloed bands stay wet and all unsoloed bands go dry. In BandpassListen, the bandpasses sum.

Click-free

Every solo gesture is bridged by a 20 ms linear wet/dry crossfade, so even rapid solo-flipping on a playing track stays click-free.

Tips

• For resonance hunting, switch the global mode to BandpassListen, solo a Peak band, and sweep the frequency knob while listening. When you hear the resonance jump out at you, that's where to land the band before un-soloing.
• For checking what you've done, leave the global mode on MuteOthers, solo one band at a time, and listen to its contribution in context.
• Solo state is not preset-saved — it's a monitoring tool, not a sound. Loading a preset always releases all solos.

See also

• Band controls
• Dynamic EQ
• EQ display