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It's going to be hard getting much of anything that's high quality in that price range....that's only $750/channel. Are you able to afford a stereo/dual mono unit, i.e. like the Great River EQ2NV. It's almost double your budget, but it's one of those 'lifetime keeper' types of pieces. It's a 4 band with a HPF. Either that or use your whole budget for a mono unit and use the EQ on the most important sources (i.e. kick, bass, mono acoustic, vocals, etc).

jackson413 wrote: looking for a good 'dual' parametric eq with at least 4 bands (6 would be nice) and HP+LP filters. Need somthing for tracking and post. $1500 budget

I'm considering: Ashly PQX-572 (not sure if it as the HP+LP Filters or not)
Ashly 2.24PS (physical controls would be nice...)

any other ideas?

Why not two channels of those new Summit Audio FEQ-50 EQ's? You could get two of those for $1500, and they are very nice units.

http://www.summitaudio.com/feq-50-equalizer.htm