# Events search tool doesn't work with filtering by Spat if a custom attenuation curve is loaded

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/events-search-tool-doesnt-work-with-filtering-by-spat-if-a-custom-attenuation-curve-is-loaded/18560>\
**Category:** FMOD Studio\
**Created:** [March 22, 2022, 8:55am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/events-search-tool-doesnt-work-with-filtering-by-spat-if-a-custom-attenuation-curve-is-loaded/18560 "2022-03-22T08:55:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![macroburla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6f9a4e/32.png) [@macroburla](https://qa.fmod.com/u/macroburla)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 8:55am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/events-search-tool-doesnt-work-with-filtering-by-spat-if-a-custom-attenuation-curve-is-loaded/18560/1 "2022-03-22T08:55:13Z")

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Ok so, just found about this potential issue: if I wanted to search for 3D events in the Events tab, I would have to Filter by Effect \> FMOD Spatializer. But if a Spatializer has a custom attenuation curve loaded into, then the search won’t recognize it as a Spat anymore, so it won’t be shown as a 3D event.  
The thing is that the query is probably based on the effect name string (even if the effect is called Spatializer while the query says Spatialiser), and when you load a custom attenuation curve it changes that.  
Well, don’t see any particular valid reason for why it might be a correct behaviour, so I’m reporting as a potential bug.

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**Author:** ![joseph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/joseph/32/264_2.png) [@joseph](https://qa.fmod.com/u/joseph)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/events-search-tool-doesnt-work-with-filtering-by-spat-if-a-custom-attenuation-curve-is-loaded/18560/2 "2022-03-23T01:04:53Z")

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Thanks for letting us know about this issue. Not being able to find events containing specific effects is definitely a problem, so I’ll add it to our bug tracker.