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EQ and Compression... Which order?:
This article discusses briefly putting your EQ before or after the Compressor. This would apply either to a master effects chain (such as your stereo bus in Cubase) or if you are mastering a 2-track mixdown with hardware. Sony Creative is where I found this article.
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/...2&keycode=3492

From Soundonsound.com
Compressors are often used in conjunction with equalisers, especially in mastering applications. However, there's a big difference in the results achieved, depending on whether you put the EQ before or after the compressor, especially if the compressor is a full-band type. Let me give you an example: let's assume that a mix needs more low-end energy, so we add some bass boost at 80Hz. If we then feed the EQ'd signal through a compressor it will respond most to the loudest signal peaks, which in all probability will occur exactly where we applied the boost — in other words the compressor will attempt to turn down the level of the sounds we've just tried to emphasise. Sometimes this will produce a musically useful effect, but where you want the EQ to be unaffected by the compressor, you're better patching the compressor first in line. If you have a hardware EQ and a compressor, or corresponding plug-ins, I'd recommend you try a few experiments to demonstrate just how great a difference can be made simply by moving the EQ before or after the compressor.

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