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  • EQ can simulate some limited subsets of effects of some reverbs, but, it cannot, even with modulation in time, cover what they do fully. The thing with reverb is that it introduces new sound. Some forms of reverbs are similar to delays with short delay times. If you look at spectrograms, both reverb and delay introduce new waveshapes to the picture. And EQ can only alter existing waveshapes, if that makes sense. (Not sure how to word this better).

    Edit: adding delay here makes this all easier to understand, because if you take delay with long time, like 3 seconds, it is quite obvious that no amount of EQ can copypaste the sound into the time moment 3 seconds later right? And reverb basically has similar nature. It introduces soundwaves where they were not present before, so no amount of EQing can create them.