Huh, I've consciously thought in the past of this as an outsider and concluded that by now it's a common enough task so of course they must've had an algorithm for doing it automatically.
Is there really nothing coming close to that?
Is there really nothing coming close to that?
Technically you could accomplish the same thing by applying a parametric eq to the master buss, but then you're no longer software agnostic.
It's like photography; sure one can post-process photos in photoshop. But getting everything right before taking the picture, at a hardware level, simplifies things for everyone involved.