Tone Controls/Graphic EQ?

I have always thought Thorsten Loesch to be fairly, shall we say conservative, he gave the predecessor to the Behringer Ultracurve DEQ2496 a pretty fair wrap on enjoythemusic.

There is quite a deal of discussion on another forum I browse WRT the Behringer, the DEQX and a lesser amount on the TACT.

Most of it revolves around the room correction abilities of these units and the ability to measure speaker response in room is a pre-requisite to their successful use, as is a masters degree in programming I suspect.

For any interested in in room response measurement, there is a freeware program called REW available from the hometheatreshack - I think it only goes to 10KHz but that covers most of what I can hear.  You will need a mic and stand and an SPL meter, one of the cheapie RS analogue meters also has line out and calibration files are available for it.

This could also lead to a whole new topic 

PS not telling who was on the bill at my first live gig - the acoustics did not matter, the girls (in the audience) screamed so much and so loudly that you could not hear them (the band) anyway, the girls also threw lots of jelly babies on to the stage - that should be enough of a clue.