Proceed AVP adding an Equalizer?

I'm not sure the problem.  With a processor adding an EQ simply means you connect the processor outputs to the EQ inputs, and EQ out to amplifier inputs.

The one problem we have is that there are very few 6 or more channel DSPs out there which are affordable.

Thanks for the response.  Actually you wouldn’t put an equalizer after the preamp as that would affect the output of the preamp, which has its own volume control.  Put the EQ downstream of that in the signal chain and you would run into EQ overload/clipping issues.  Equalizers are meant to receive a constant level of audio and then the adjustments and attenuation or boost coming out of the EQ means you do t get clipping and then you also have the preamp volume control going to the amplifiers.

Most preamps 20-30 years ago had a tape record loop or EQ loop circuit built in so you could listen to the selected audio with and without EQ without the EQ being the attenuator post-preamp volume.  This has no such circuit.  However I resolved the issue with this preamp by using extra audio outputs from source equipment and then running the EQ output into one of the inputs of the preamp.  So problem solved.

James