Our selection here aims to highlight options for every EQ situation: For example, are you looking for a processor for sweetening and bringing out or adding character to instruments are you looking to gently tame parts or mixes with broad and smooth cuts and boosts, or are you after the audio equivalent of a surgeons scalpel for highly focused, precision adjustments? These clean, ‘digital’-style EQs offer the sort of flexibility, accuracy and, usually, a transparency that engineers in the 1950s could only dream of, working as they were with imperfect analogue components. However, when it comes to pure sonic character and musicality, analogue and analogue-modelling EQ is still hard to beat. Nowadays, we all have pretty amazing EQ functionality by default built into our DAWs. As soon as it became possible to record and transmit audio electrically, and then electronically, engineers and music-makers also began developing various ways of sculpting the sound by boosting or cutting specific parts of the frequency spectrum independently from the rest of the signal. The equaliser is one of the longest-serving and most fundamental sound processing tools.
The algorithm has been carefully tuned by ear to provide musical results that are hard to unhear.To celebrate the release of the Get That Pro Sound Ultimate Guide to Equalisation, we’ve put together this run-down of the very best EQ plugins available in the world.
The process is free from pre-ring, crossovers, and summing artefacts commonly found in dynamic equalisers and multiband compressors. It combines novel heuristics for finding resonances with advanced filtering techniques to minimise degradation of the signal quality. Soothe2 is a result of years of research and development.
It is equally at home on individual tracks and on busses. Soothe2 saves time and effort in audio work.
Soothe2 can be used to reduce harshness, sibilance and mud from the sound source, and excels in fixing a range of problems.
This preserves the timbre of the original sound source and results in transparent treatment with minimal artefacts. The reduction kicks in only when and where needed without affecting the nearby frequency areas. This results in a smoother, more balanced sound and saves you from having to notch out the frequencies by hand. It identifies problematic resonances on the fly and applies matching reduction automatically. Soothe2 is a dynamic resonance suppressor.