EQ VST Plugins

League of the phenomenal British studio gear.

The British-style console preamp and eq units have been the most sought-after equipment since the first days they came out.

Queen, Nirvana, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, David Bowie, Foo Fighters, Slipknot, Metallica, Adele, Drake …etc as just a few examples.

They’ve been used on countless classic top platinum-selling albums and are also still widely used, which confirms these legendary modules’ status much-wanted classic units that every mixing/mastering environment needs.

NEED Preamp and Eq Collection include 7 Outstanding British-style preamp/eq plugins!

All of them are extremely accurate end-to-end circuit emulations that retain each small detail and true vintage tone of this phenomenal studio equipment. NEED Preamp and Eq Collection is a Real Gem!

• NEED 533 EQ
• NEED 84 CONSOLE EQ
• NEED 81 CONSOLE EQ
• NEED 73 CONSOLE EQ
• NEED 31102 CONSOLE EQ
• NEED PREAMPS

Expertly Detailed

NoiseAsh Audio is proud to bring the original vintage amplifier and eq units into your DAW. Expertly captured, totally detailed, extremely accurate analog models for sculpting your sound just like legendary top rated British style consoles. Thanks to NoiseAsh modeling technology; warm, bold and distinguishing analog characteristics, even little details are exactly here in the box now with NEED Preamp and Eq Collection.

Nuance Deviation System

Analog domain components have some little tonal nuance differences which create some deviations concerning their theoretical values. Nuance Deviation System (NDS) is the NoiseAsh Audio proprietary signal processing model, which emulates the sonic character deviations of the analog components. Individual Left-Mid and Right-Side channels can be alternated with NDS. There are plenty of carefully modeled console channels and each number stands for a console channel bearing its deviation. With NDS, real tonal differences can be captured quickly!

You really NEED this!

Innovative cutting-edge NoiseAsh technology has given the analog reality with a very light CPU usage, expanded modern features like NDS & Mid/Side options, and maximum accurate Anti-Aliasing Analog tone behavior. All of the models in NEED Preamp and Eq Collection are much more than emulations. They are what every mixing/mastering environment needs for letting you enjoy all the warm tones of a mythical piece of the studio consoles, right in your DAW, in-the-box, very easily. You NEED this!

Product Specifications

• 7 British style NEED plugins in one bundle
• Truly accurate circuit reproduction of the legendary British Class-A and AB preamps
• Nuance Deviation System (NDS) for individual Left/Mid and Right/Side channels
• Mid/Side channel processing mode
• For NEED 73 & 84: Class-A Mic (from –80 dB to 0 dB) and Line (from +10 dB to 0 dB) Preamp model with output gain compensator (Drive Mode)
• For NEED 81: Class-AB Mic (from –80 dB to 0 dB) and Line (from +10 dB to 0 dB) Preamp model with output gain compensator (Drive Mode)
• For NEED 31102: Class-A Mic (from –80 dB to 10 dB) Preamp model with output gain compensator (Drive Mode) Additional mid bands for NEED 73, 84 and 31102 Console EQ units
• Custom additional High-Pass and Low-Pass Filters for NEED 533 EQ
• Complex signature interaction between filters with fabled musical curves
• Anti-Aliasing Analog Modeling Engine
• Optimized Resizable GUI layout for the effective workflow
• Friend of CPU

In Apogee’s obsessive quest to reproduce every nuance of the Pultec Program Equalizer…

They have had a worthy partner – Steve Jackson of Pulse Techniques, the current manufacturer of new Pultec hardware.

After careful analysis of several vintages and new Pultec MEQ-5 units, Apogee chose to model their plugin after one of Steve’s new units – it was like unboxing a brand new unit in 1959.

Features

• The Apogee Pultec MEQ-5 Midrange Equalizer plugin precisely recreates the original hardware to sculpt critical midrange frequencies with precision and warmth
• Developed with Pulse Techniques, the current manufacturer of hardware Pultec EQs
• Apogee plugin modelled from brand new Pultec unit
• Officially Licensed and Endorsed by Pulse Techniques
• Run natively in your favourite DAW (no Apogee hardware is required)
• Runs on Apogee hardware DSP in Symphony Desktop, Element Series, and Ensemble Thunderbolt audio interfaces

EXTREMELY ACCURATE

Legendary passive equalizers have long been a top choice of leading recording and mastering engineers since it was released in 1951. With tons of research and hard work; we are proud to present extremely accurate models of these legendary equalizer units, Rule Tec® Collection.

Legendary tone is here with all of the legendary signature features including “Pultec EQ trick”.

WELL KNOWN TOP 3 MODELS – IN ONE SINGLE PLUGIN

• F3C – Completes the collection with unique taming sharp high pass – low pass filters
• EQ1A – Classic mixing and mastering equalizer
• EQ5M – Classic mixing and mastering equalizer

INTERACTIVE ANALOG BEHAVIOUR

We’ve modeled lot’s of unique complex interactive analog behaviour in order to present all signature characteristics of the original units’ “a must have tone”. Same musicality, clarity, warmth and character with original units which is immediately noticeable when tweaking frequency boosts.

MAIN FEATURES

• Extremely accurate circuit reproduction of the most popular vintage studio equalizers ever made
• Complex legendary interaction between filters with smooth and musical curves
• Unique analog behavior of total harmonic distortion, tubes, hum etc.
• Friend of CPU
• Resizable GUI

ON EVERY TRACK

Use it on every track. Just put it on the channel, and it will just sound great. Rule Tec add a very desirable and subtle tube saturation to your signal even when the EQ is set flat. Rule Tec Heritage Pro is all in one solution for both professional mixing and mastering purposes. You really can’t go wrong with Rule Tec Collection.

LEGEND FROM THE HISTORY

The result is pretty amazing. All in one solution for legendary famous equalizer tone that you’ve heard in thousands of records for 70 years.

Introducing clarity on demand.

Smooth Operator combines equalization, spectral compression and resonance suppression into a singular creative experience that’s instant and intuitive. Use it to perfect your tonal balance and add a touch of ‘hifi’.

Our spectral detection algorithm adapts to your audio 44,100 times per second and automatically eliminates fatigued frequencies. This gives you full control to shape your signal and bring out more definition.

Highlights:

• Brings out clarity and smoothness across instruments, vocals and mix busses.
• Allows for creative tone shaping without artifacts or harsh resonances.
• Intelligent algorithm that automatically detects and resolves fatigued frequencies.

What is Spectral Processing.

The easiest way to understand Spectral Processing is to think of it as manipulating the building blocks that make up a digital signal – rather than the actual signal.

Our algorithm uses Fast Fourier Transform – or FFT – to break the incoming audio into tiny particles, which are analyzed and processed separately, before being put back together as audio. This all happens in realtime and allows for a much more surgical approach to resonance detection and rebalancing than what would be possible with traditional audio effects.

While most spectral tools focus on audio restoration, we wanted Smooth Operator to be all about creative expression. The plugin is meant for shaping your tone.

Use it to compress, EQ and ‘purify’ in one simple process – and know that Smooth Operator has your back when it comes to automatically eliminating artifacts.

Smooth Operator comes loaded with 63 presets created by friends of BABY Audio – including:

• Preston Reid (Ciara, Toni Braxton, Lil Uzi Vert)
• David Nakaji (Post Malone, Aminé, Lil Eazzyy)
• Rob Kleiner (David Guetta, Sia, Britney Spears, Giorgio Moroder)
• Steven Holness (Adele, Jason Derulo, Paul Weller)
• Neenah (Winne, Mr. Probz, Nana Fofie, Joe Budden)

Display options.

• Switch between three color modes (Pink / Green / Blue)
• Plugin window fully resizable

Tilting EQ with Mid/Side

Things Flip EQ is an easy-to-use tilting EQ plugin with mid/side mode. Turn the main knob to the right, and you get more highs and less lows; turn it to the left, and lows are boosted while highs are attenuated. You can choose the cutoff frequency of the EQ with the Cutoff control, or increase the gain of the EQ with the Boost button.

Things Flip EQ can also be applied to either the mid or side of a stereo signal to further enhance the stereo depth.

MAIN FEATURES

• Tilting EQ
• Mid/Side Operation
• Cut, Boost, Mix
• Cutoff and Boost controls
• Resizable Window

MID / SIDE – What is Mid / Side?
In a stereo signal, the Mid channel is considered the center, and contains both Left and Right channels. Boosting the Mid channel results in a more mono sound.

The Side channel instead contains the difference between the Left and Right channels. Boosting the Side channel results in a more spacious or wider sound.

Mid / Side Mode
Tilting EQ can be applied to the mid or side part of the signal. This can be useful to create a wider stereo image on a full mix or individual tracks.

Blue Cat’s Axiom is a powerful and open multi effects processor and amp simulation software for guitar and bass. Based on the acclaimed Destructor plug-in for amp simulations, Axiom offers an infinite number of exceptional tones for your axe.

What’s new in 1.6?

• Improved Tone Maps navigation, with updated user interface (for amp simulation and 9 built-in effects).
• Added MIDI control support (MIDI CC messages) for Next and Previous Preset commands, with MIDI learn.
• Improved MIDI & automation control settings with lock, reset and “save as global setting” capabilities.
• Preset files can now be dropped onto the preset LCD area to be loaded.
• Level meters, spectrum analyzers and tuner stop processing when the user interface is closed, reducing CPU usage.
• Multiple DSP performance improvements.
• Reduced the number of threads used by the plug-ins.
• Improved global and preset settings window loading time on Windows.
• Reduced time to load Axiom, Destructor or any built-in plug-in.
• Full unicode support.
• Native Apple Silicon (M1 processor) support.
• Dropped 32-bit support on Mac.
• Now requires MacOS 10.9 and newer.
• Fixed VST3 (and sometimes VST) version freezing Ableton Live upon save on Windows.
• Up to 5 times more processing power with the new multicore engine that processes each channel and each tool on a separate core.
• Multicore engine also available for the built-in Late Replies plug-in (Pattern module).

• Updated all 460 factory presets with appropriate drive range for all simulated amps.
• New built-in looper plug-in (in the “Utils” category).
• New built-in distortion and dynamics pedals based on Destructor with new pedal GUI.
• New built-in delay models based on Late Replies 1.5 with new “EZ mode” GUI.
• New DSP workload meter that displays the DSP activity and CPU load.
• Tap Tempo with MIDI CC to set BPM in the application with a footswitch.
• Lock effects bypass switches to match the state of MIDI foot controllers when changing presets.
• Improved buffer management in standalone application on Mac, reducing both latency and CPU usage.
• reverted default preset to empty preset to improve performance upon load (the preset is still available as “Default Clean”)
• Added ability to select the plug-in to load when a shell plug-in file is dragged and dropped onto a slot.

Main Features

• Powerful and unlimited multi-effects processor and amp modeling software for guitar and bass.
• Realistic and fully customizable amp simulation based on Blue Cat’s Destructor.
• Flexible routing: 2 parallel amp simulation channels with effects + input and master sections.
• 40 high quality built-in effects: wah, delays, reverb, pitch bender, EQ, filters, distortion units, compressor, gate, chorus, flanger…
• Includes Blue Cat’s Destructor and Late Replies as built-in effects.
• Built-in high precision tuner.
• Open and extensible: load any third party VST, VST3 or Audio Unit (AU) plug-in.
• Delivered with thousands of presets for all sections and built-in effects.
• Load third party virtual instruments to play along.
• Global stereo spread control.
• Lock sections to prevent changes when loading presets.
• No latency.

It includes two amp simulations channels (with pre and post effects) that can be mixed together or used alternatively like a real amp. You can choose your amp models from hundreds of presets or launch the amp editor to build your own, with complete control over the tone. Additional input and master sections let you adjust the tone at the input and the output of Axiom, with 4 additional effect slots each and an integrated high precision tuner. A brickwall limiter also protects the output from overshoot. Axiom includes 40 built-in effects that can be loaded in any of the 32 plug-in slots, including a built-in version of Late Replies for creative delays and reverbs, and a built-in version of Destructor to add your own distortion pedals, cabinets or additional amp simulations. Blue Cat’s Axiom is not limited to its built-in effects: these slots can also host third party Audio Unit, VST or VST3 plug-ins: you can use your favorite plug-ins anywhere in the signal chain and expand Axiom’s capabilities. And because playing alone is not so much fun, we have added a tools section with 3 additional slots to load virtual instruments: add a metronome, a drum machine, sequencer or your keyboardist’s favorite synthesizer there to get it mixed with your guitar.

EQ, Compression and Saturation Plugin

Whether you’re recording basic tracks or adding the final touches on your mix, the Symphony ECS Channel Strip offers a simple but comprehensive EQ, compression and saturation for enhancing your tracks with minimum fuss and maximum results.

EQ – The Channel Strip’s EQ is based on vintage 1970’s hardware EQ that’s simple but potent, so you can dial in your sound with ease. Switch the high pass filter to the compressor sidechain for aggressive compression without pumping.

Compressor – With parameters tuned by legendary mixer Bob Clearmountain, the compressor offers foolproof gain reduction with just the essential controls. Parallel compression is easy using the included Mix knob.

Saturation – Add the finishing touch to your sound with variable levels of saturation, from subtle volume-boosting through crunchy and exciting to full-on crush.

Flexible Workflows with Symphony Desktop – The ECS Channel Strip runs both on Symphony Desktop on-board hardware DSP and as a native plugin in your DAW, opening an array of innovative and flexible workflows. Commit to your processing with Print FX mode or set up DualPath monitoring for zero-latency recording with the ECS Channel Strip.

Features

• Channel Strip format offers multiple effects in one plugin
• Vintage-modelled 3-band EQ
• Clearmountain-tuned Compressor with Auto Makeup
• Saturation from subtle gain to warm crush
• Flexible High-Pass
• DualPath flexibility with Symphony Desktop

Unrivalled Sound and Workflow

An equalizer is probably the tool you use most while mixing and mastering, so you need the best of the best! With FabFilter Pro-Q 3, you get the highest possible sound quality and a gorgeous, innovative interface with unrivalled ease of use.

Mixing and Mastering Features

Pro-Q 3 offers everything that a demanding engineer could wish for: top quality linear phase operation in addition to the zero latency and unique Natural Phase modes, Mid/Side processing, variable stereo placement of EQ bands, an intelligent solo feature, optional Auto Gain and a built-in, fully customizable spectrum analyzer.

Effortlessly Sculpt Your Sound

FabFilter Pro-Q 3 is designed to help you achieve your sound in the quickest way possible. Via the large interactive EQ display, you can create bands where you need them, enable dynamic EQ for any band, and select and edit multiple bands at once.

Unique features like Spectrum Grab, Full Screen mode and EQ Match will speed up your workflow even more. Try it yourself!

FabFilter Goodies

Of course, you also get all the usual FabFilter goodies: perfectly tuned knobs, interactive MIDI Learn, undo/redo and A/B switch, Smart Parameter Interpolation for smooth parameter transitions, an extensive help file with interactive help hints, sample-accurate automation, advanced optimization and much more!

MAIN FEATURES

• Highest possible sound quality
• Up to 24 EQ bands
• NEW – Optional Dynamic EQ mode for all bands (Bell and Shelf shapes), using any slope setting and with perfect analog matching
• IMPROVED – Gorgeous Retina interface with large interactive EQ display, multi-band selection and editing for maximum ease of use and efficiency
• NEW – Ultra-steep ‘Brickwall’ slope setting for LP and HP filters
• NEW – Full surround support (up to Dolby Atmos 7.1.2) with intelligent speaker selection
• NEW – External spectrum visualization from any other Pro-Q 3 instance, including collision detection
• NEW – Per-band mid/side or left/right processing, so you can EQ the mid, side, left or right signals separately
• Operates in zero latency mode, linear phase mode with adjustable latency or the unique Natural Phase mode
• NEW – Flat Tilt filter shape, a flat tilting correction curve over the whole audible frequency spectrum
• IMPROVED – Spectrum Grab: just grab and adjust a peak in the real-time spectrum analyzer right away!
• Different interface sizes and additional Full Screen mode
• IMPROVED – Filter shapes: Bell, Notch, High/Low Shelf, High/Low Cut, Band Pass, Tilt Shelf, Flat Tilt
• Universal filter slope support for all filter types, up to 96 dB/oct
• IMPROVED – EQ Match feature to automatically match the spectrum of another Pro-Q 3 instance or an external signal
• IMPROVED – Built-in spectrum analyzer with Pre-EQ, Post-EQ and external spectrum visualization, adjustable range, speed, resolution, tilt, freeze and collision detection
• Auto Gain and Gain Scale
• Optional piano roll display to quantize EQ frequencies to musical notes
• Different display ranges: 3 dB and 6 dB ranges for mastering, 12 dB and 30 dB for mixing
• Intelligent solo mode makes it easy to find problem frequencies and hear the effect of a band
• Phase Invert option to change polarity
• Large output level meter with peak level readout
• Extreme CPU optimization: Pro-Q 3 uses very little CPU and memory, so you can use hundreds of instances in a session
• GPU-powered graphics acceleration
• Double-click text entry of parameter values
• IMPROVED – Supports stereo, mono and surround channel layouts (up to Dolby Atmos 7.1.2)
• Supports common Pro Tools hardware control surfaces
• IMPROVED – MIDI Learn with option to control the currently active band
• Undo/redo and A/B comparison
• Smart Parameter Interpolation
• Sample-accurate automation of all parameters
• Extensive help file with interactive help hints
• Available in VST, VST3, Audio Units, AAX Native and AudioSuite formats (all both 64-bit and 32-bit)

EXTREMELY ACCURATE

Legendary passive equalizers have long been a top choice of leading recording and mastering engineers since it was released in 1951. With tons of research and hard work; we are proud to present extremely accurate models of these legendary equalizer units, Rule Tec® Collection. Legendary tone is here with all of the legendary signature features including “Pultec EQ trick”.

TWO IN ONE – PERFECT MID RANGE SOLUTION

• EQ5M – Famous Mid-Range Equalizer
• F3C – Completes the collection with unique taming sharp high pass – low pass filters

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

• Extremely accurate circuit reproduction of the most popular vintage studio equalizers ever made
• Complex legendary interaction between filters with smooth and musical curves
• Unique analog behavior of total harmonic distortion, tubes, hum etc.
• Friend of CPU
• Resizable GUI

ON EVERY TRACK

Use it on every track. Just put it on the channel, and it will just sound great. Rule Tec add a very desirable and subtle tube saturation to your signal even when the EQ is set flat. Rule Tec EQ1A is all in one solution for both professional mixing and mastering purposes. You really can’t go wrong with it.

INTERACTIVE ANALOG BEHAVIOUR

We’ve modeled lot’s of unique complex interactive analog behaviour in order to present all signature characteristics of the original units’ “a must have tone”. Same musicality, clarity, warmth and character with original units which is immediately noticeable when tweaking frequency boosts.

LEGEND FROM THE HISTORY

The result is pretty amazing. All in one solution for legendary famous equalizer tone that you’ve heard in thousands of records for 70 years.

SEQ-S gives you powerful sonic sculpting and EQ matching up to 7.1, with stereo mid-side operation and automated spectrum analysis. Massage and correct any audio with incredible resolution that you just can’t get with a traditional parametric interface. A direct-draw interface and detailed spectrum analysis make it easy to quickly identify and specifically fine-tune your audio. Couple this with EQ matching via sonic fingerprinting and you have some unique possibilities. New: Fluid filter morphing transitions Version 1.2 introduces automated EQ morphing for controlled scene transitions and creative sound design possibilities. With three independent EQ transition pairs, including dynamic and static pass filter effects, seamless transitions from different environments, creative morphs and tempo-locked effects are easily achieved, with full dynamic visual feedback. Match one recording to another Beyond traditional EQ, you can also use SEQ-S to capture the flavour of a piece of source audio and then transfer it to your current work – great for restoration and harmonisation work. Or use the same technique on individual tracks to unify different takes, microphone positions, and more. Create ‘perfect’ space The EQ Invert control gives you a minimally-invasive technique for creating space in a complex mix where traditional EQs are just too cumbersome. By ‘sampling’ the vocal and applying the inverted the curve to the backing, specific space can be gently created without unnecessarily altering the original tonality of the underlying audio. High definition low frequency control Unlike many linear phase EQs, SEQ-S has a unique Quality Setting that gives it great precision in the low frequencies, allowing you to make highly transparent adjustments without muddying the mix. The resolution is scalable to suit your task. Choose all the precision you need for demanding work during mastering, or vary the setting to run multiple instances concurrently during a mixing session.

NEED 533 EQ is a 5-band high-performance analog eq unit that has its unique special Gain-Q-Frequency interaction engine.

It has a sweet musical tone that doesn’t sound muddy or harsh even in extreme settings!

NEED 533 EQ is the expertly captured and extremely accurate circuit emulation that causes unmistakably great tones in both mixing and mastering sessions.

Since the special analog curves shape and keep the sound boundaries always in the right musical area, it is almost impossible to make mistakes with it.

Lovely musical curves, continuously variable frequency, and Q controls, custom made HP-LP filters, and modern Mid/Side processing features make this unit a flexible tool that shapes new sounds and controls any part of the audio spectrum in its unique way; so, use it on any audio source, even on a master bus to add a real character!

MAIN FEATURES

• Truly accurate circuit reproduction of unique special Gain-Q-Frequency interaction engine
• Nuance Deviation System (NDS)
• Mid/Side channel processing mode
• Musical 5 band vintage EQ and custom HP/LP filters

Extremely Accurate

NoiseAsh Audio is proud to bring the original vintage amplifier and eq units into your DAW. Expertly captured, totally detailed, extremely accurate analog models for sculpting your sound just like legendary top-rated British style consoles. Thanks to NoiseAsh modeling technology; warm, bold, and distinguishing analog characteristics, even little details are exactly here in the box now with NEED 533 Eq.

Nuance Deviation System

Analog domain components have some little tonal nuance differences which create some deviations concerning their theoretical values. Nuance Deviation System (NDS) is the NoiseAsh Audio proprietary signal processing model, which emulates the sonic character deviations of the analog components. Individual Left-Mid and Right-Side channels can be alternated with NDS. There are plenty of carefully modeled console channels and each number stands for a console channel bearing its deviation. With NDS, real tonal differences can be captured quickly!

Right in your DAW, very easily!

Innovative cutting-edge NoiseAsh technology has given the analog reality with a very light CPU usage, expanded modern features like NDS & Mid/Side options, and maximum accurate Anti-Aliasing Analog tone behavior. NEED 533 EQ is much more than an emulation. It’s what every mixing/mastering environment needs for letting you enjoy all the warm tones of this vintage unique sound of the studio equipment, right in your DAW, in-the-box, very easily!

Product Specifications

• Truly accurate circuit reproduction of unique special Gain-Q-Frequency interaction engine
• Nuance Deviation System (NDS) for individual Left/Mid and Right/Side channels
• Mid/Side channel processing mode
• Characteristic 5 band vintage EQ and custom HP/LP filters
• Continuously variable Frequency and Q controls
• Fabled musical curves that sounds always right
• Anti-Aliasing Analog Modeling Engine
• Optimized Resizable GUI layout for the effective workflow
• Friend of CPU

QUICK & HUGE

FrozenVerb is a versatile, huge, hyper stereo algorithmic reverb unit that delivers quick results with easy access to mission critical controls. It’s designed for getting very fast, powerful and high quality reverb sound. It’s alive, gentle, natural and convincingly real.

SIT IN THE MIX

FrozenVerb is providing richer, deeper or brighter tails that will sit beautifully in the mix. In addition to reverb engine, it has extra Stereo Widener and EQ units. You can control and automate all of the parameters. Especially we highly recommend making automation experiments on Freeze button.

“FREEZE” MAGIC

FrozenVerb has an extra-ordinary feature… “Freeze” button… “Freeze” button creates infinitively-continuous sustain reverb effect. That makes it very inspiring and slightly different from other reverb units. So, you can create unique, random, endless reverb effects in your mix with only a button!

WIDE RANGE OF USAGE

Extensive sentient dsp engine allows you to easily re-produce a wide range reverb characteristics, such as shining vocal reverbs, realistic room simulations, very long or even infinitive reverb tails, synth pad effects and everything inbetween.

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

• NoiseAsh’s Magical, Fast & HD quality DSP Engine
• Real time Natural Sounding Algorithmic Reverb tails
• Extra-ordinary reverb freezing engine in order to create cool atmospheric effects
• Built in stereo widener
• 4 band Solid State equalizer
• Simplified controls, lot’s of possibilities

MFreeformEqualizer is a FFT based linear-phase equalizer which can provide virtually any frequency response and may save you when other methods have failed.

Using MFreeformEqualizer you can literally draw any frequency response you may want. You can correct problematic frequencies with surgical accuracy, play with the spectrum, or even create interesting effects.

Features

• Freeform equalizer with range up to -64dB..64dB editable using the MeldaProduction Envelope System (MES).
• Integrated powerful spectral analyzer and sonogram – despite the main judge should always be your ears, the plugin offers an outstanding spectral analyzer combined with a sonogram with truly unique features such as super-resolution (which provides higher resolution in bass frequencies) or deharmonization (for easier analysis of fundamental frequencies).
• Up to 8 channels surround processing – our plugins can handle not only mono and stereo signals, but also up to 8 channels of surround audio, making them ideal for audio production for movies, games etc.
• Extremely advanced and easy-to-use user interface – our products are always designed to enhance the workflow. You can easily change all values, fine-tune each control in multiple ways. Easy orientation in a standardized GUI, textual editing and smooth visualization with almost unlimited zooming are standard in all of our plugins. Moreover our plugins are the world first (and still the only ones), which support resizable and stylable GUI’s.
• MIDI controllers with MIDI learn – you can map any parameter to any MIDI controller or MIDI keyboard and control it realtime or record and automate it.
• 64-bit processing and an unlimited sampling rate, recommended maximum is 384kHz.
• Very fast, optimized for SSE and SSE2 processors.
• Global preset management and online preset exchange – using a title button you can save your settings (which are shared on the computer) so you can easily access these in other songs. Moreover all plugins can automatically share your presets and download presets of other users from our servers (if this feature is enabled). We are building a community and you can be a part of it!
• Fully Automatable.

“Mixing room experience with headphone convenience”

Enjoy studio monitor sound in your headphones with Re-Head, a unique head-response plugin.

Re-Head uses a head response model to recreate the effect of your head and skull on the audio coming in from your speakers.

Together with stereo processing, impulse response treatment, EQ and more, Re-Head takes care of the most common problems associated with headphone use in professional work: unnatural sound and ear fatigue.

For many audio professionals, listening on headphones is a necessary evil. Perhaps you need headphones when tracking? Perhaps you need to work away from your studio? Or perhaps your studio has that one neighbor that simply can’t enjoy your creative output at 3 AM in the morning? Listening through headphones creates an unnatural sound that’s quite different from how we hear music from speakers.

Re-Head will create a mixing room experience when using headphones, even when recording distorted guitars and other instruments that tend to sound unnaturally in-your-face in a headphone mix.

At the center is a head response model that mimics the effect of your own skull on your hearing when listening through loudspeakers. Add to that stereo processing to avoid the hard-panned sound so common in headphones, a spectrum analyzer and EQ. There is even an impulse response representation of your favored mixing room to let you feel right at home, even when you’re not.

Re-Head won’t replace your favorite studio monitors, for sure. But it will make the transition from speakers to headphones less dramatic.

MAIN FEATURES

• “Head response” model: get a more natural tone when working with headphones.
• Adjust the position and the angle between the virtual speakers.
• Adjust the brightness.
• Built-in EQ and spectrum analyzer.
• Impulse response (IR) loader to mimic your listening room, and compensate actual headphones.
• Flip left and right channels.
• No latency.

BLUE CAT AUDIO STANDARDS:

• Available in most plug-in formats for Mac and Windows.
• Full MIDI control and automation support, MIDI Learn.
• No CPU load on idle: processing shuts down when fed with silence (optimal CPU usage).
• Customizable user interface with transparency & zoom.
• Smooth Bypass: noiseless plug-in activation / deactivation.
• Undo/Redo.
• Full featured integrated presets manager.
• Copy/paste the state of the plug-in between instances.
• Any sample rate supported.

MCabinet is a revolutionary cabinet simulator mainly for guitars and bass, but can be a great creative sound design tool as well.

Instead of thousands of IR files it lets you focus on the sound itself and gets you a virtually infinite number of cabinets!

Great sound, simple controls, creative results

A cabinet is an essential part of the guitar sound. Professional guitarists are usually either using physical cabinets, or bought thousands of impulse response files of these cabinets. In either case it is an extremely clumsy hit and miss process. MCabinet is based on statistical analysis of these real cabinets.

It lets you start with a profile of thousands of these IRs and start being creative from there. It provides 4 so-called resonators, which can give your new cabinet a unique tonal or resonant character, and 2 wideners, which provide a natural stereo widening and potentially a little ambience. Finally, MCabinet lets you post-process your new cabinet using simple knobs such as flattening or tilt. And there’s a dynamic equalizer as a cherry on top, just in case.

Exporting IR is a piece of cake

Just in case you want to use your new cabinet using a HW amp simulator, which allows loading an IR file, MCabinet can do that with a few clicks.

How about some creative sound design?

MCabinet is mainly designed for guitar and bass cabinets, but it can actually work with just about any kind of sound. You can analyze a profile of any set of samples and see where it gets you. Or you can use a flat profile and exploit the resonators and wideners on any audio you want. It’s the creativity that matters these days!

MeldaProduction goodies

As always you’ll find the standard MeldaProduction features: 16x upsampling, M/S, surround support as well as other channel modes, AGC, A-H presets for easy comparisons, and our easy to use integrated help system.

Modulators

MCabinet provides 4 fully-featured modulators which can control any set of parameters including other modulators. Each modulator works as an LFO, level follower, midi/audio triggered ADSR enveloper, randomizer or pitch detector, or even a combination and can listen to the plugin’s side-chain. You can make the sound move in time, be less static and more interesting. You can make various parameters depend on the input (or the sidechain) level or even listen to the input pitch.

MIDI controllers with MIDI learn

MCabinet contains a powerful MIDI processor, which listen to MIDI controllers and MIDI keyboard and control any parameters realtime.

Automatic gain compensation (AGC)

Most plugins change loudness of the output audio, which makes browsing presets inconvenient, not mentioning randomization. MCabinet includes automatic gain compensation, which quickly adapts to current settings and ensures the output sounds as loud as the input. This even protects you from thinking that something sounds better in cases it is just louder.

Unique visualisation engine with classic meters and time graphs

Your ears should always be the main tool, but they are not the only way to judge your audio. Visual aids can be incredibly useful for a variety of reasons. Melda’s comprehensive metering system is extremely flexible and delivers you accurate information when you need it.

From classic meters to time-based graphs, you will see important visual feedback including; Input, Output, Stereo width, Loudness, Waveforms, Bands, Gain reduction and Sidechain, and some plugin dependent meters.

NEED 81 Console Eq is another British Style Class-AB preamp/equalizer unit that holds the true sound of the legendary modular consoles.

It’s been used on countless classic top platinum-selling albums and is also still widely used to great effect, which confirms this baby’s status as a much-wanted classic unit that every mixing environment needs. The extremely accurate end-to-end circuit emulation which is holding each small detail and true vintage tone of the phenomenal studio equipment.

Musical curves, fast transient response, and outstanding sensitivity features make this unit a flexible tool that shapes new sounds and controls any part of the audio spectrum in a very warm and old-school way.

MAIN FEATURES

• Truly accurate circuit reproduction of the legendary British Class-AB preamp / eq
• Nuance Deviation System (NDS)
• Mid/Side channel processing mode
• Complex signature interaction between filters with fabled musical curves

Expertly Detailed

NoiseAsh Audio is proud to bring the original vintage amplifier and eq units into your DAW. Expertly captured, totally detailed, extremely accurate analog models for sculpting your sound just like legendary top-rated British style consoles. Thanks to NoiseAsh modeling technology; warm, bold, and distinguishing analog characteristics, even little details are exactly here in the box now with NEED 81 Console Eq.

Quick Reality

Analog domain components have some little tonal nuance differences which create some deviations concerning their theoretical values. Nuance Deviation System (NDS) is the NoiseAsh Audio proprietary signal processing model, which emulates the sonic character deviations of the analog components. Individual Left-Mid and Right-Side channels can be alternated with NDS. There are plenty of carefully modeled console channels and each number stands for a console channel bearing its deviation. With NDS, real tonal differences can be captured quickly!

Right in your DAW, very easily!

Innovative cutting-edge NoiseAsh technology has given the analog reality with a very light CPU usage, expanded modern features like NDS & Mid/Side options, and maximum accurate Anti-Aliasing Analog tone behavior. NEED 81 Console EQ is much more than an emulation. It’s what every mixing/mastering environment needs for letting you enjoy all the warm tones of a mythical piece of the studio consoles, right in your DAW, in-the-box, very easily!

Product Specifications

• Truly accurate circuit reproduction of the legendary British Class-AB preamp / equalizer units
• Nuance Deviation System (NDS) for individual Left/Mid and Right/Side channels
• Mid/Side channel processing mode
• Class-AB Mic (from –80 dB to 0 dB) and Line (from +10 dB to 0 dB) Preamp model with output gain compensator (Drive Mode)
• Characteristic 4 band vintage EQ plus HP and LP selectable filters (18 dB per octave)
• Complex signature interaction between filters with fabled musical curves
• Anti-Aliasing Analog Modeling Engine
• Optimized Resizable GUI layout for the effective workflow
• Friend of CPU

MID/SIDE PROCESSING AND STEREO WIDENING

OSL Side Effects is a versatile audio plugin that allows the stereo field to be manipulated in both subtle and creative ways.

It separates a stereo signal into Mid and Side channels which can be independently equalized, compressed, saturated, boosted, attenuated and panned using an intuitive processing chain.

This makes it possible to alter the width of a mix in ways that would be impossible using conventional stereo processing techniques.

FEATURES

• 4 band Mid/Side EQ with interactive graph
• FFT spectrum analyser
• Mid/Side compressor with transfer curve graph
• Gain reduction meters
• Tape-style saturation
• Mid/Side stereo panning
• Input and output gain controls
• Stereo visualiser (goniometer)
• Phase meter
• Mid/Side and Left/Right output meters
• Oversampling up to 16x
• Preset system including 17 factory presets
• All parameters can be automated from the host DAW
• Light on CPU

Break your sound with raw power – The key to extreme audio punch and destruction

The Grater is a powerful audio plug-in that allows you to compress and shape your audio like never before. With its unique set of controls, The Grater can take your audio to the next level by adding punch and power or by creatively destroying and mangling your sound. Whether you’re a mixing engineer looking to add punch to your drums or a sound designer looking for new ways to mangle your audio, The Grater has you covered.

Features

• The Grater comes with a whooping 136 presets by amazing artists such as Mick Gordon, Eddie Grey, Konrad OldMoney, Tushar Apte and Christal Jerez.
• Grater Control lever that adds extreme compression, punch and distortion.
• Sharpness Control to tune Grater response.
• Breakup Control which adds unique errors to the compression.
• Three Breakup modes: Smooth, Neutral, Heavy.
• Compressor Input and Output gain for gain staging.
• Dynamic Reinject: allows to bring back the dynamic range lost during the compression.
• Three additional effect module:
  • Reso Burst to create resonant filter bumps and self resonating tones.
  • Pre Tonality to shape the tonal balance of your audio before it goes through the compressor.
  • Slice Up module for additional clipping stage.
• Master Section for final polishing.
• Mixes well in any audio production setting, from music mixing to sound design.

Big Beautiful Door is like no other dynamics processor. It takes a completely fresh approach to EQ and dynamics, and packages it in a way that just makes sense.

The Beast is Born

Big Beautiful door is what you get when an EQ and a Gate make a baby together. Then, right when the baby comes out, you inject it with a few doses of steroids. Seriously, this thing is so powerful and is really easy to use. This is not a one trick pony. This does everything from ducking your bass when your kick hits, to acting as the world’s most powerful vocal EQ. Big Beautiful Door opens up a whole new world of creativity and streamlines your workflow like no other dynamics plugin.

MAIN FEATURES

• Separate EQ for loud and quiet sounds
• Advanced Sidechaining
• Intuitive Interface

Dual EQ

Big Beautiful Door gives you separate eq over your loud and your quiet parts of your track. This lets you EQ your quiet  sounds separately from your loud sounds. A paragraph of text won’t come close to describing how powerful this option is, so watch some of the demo videos to see what opportunities this opens up.

Advanced Sidechaining

Advanced sidechaining gives you complete control over how Big Beautiful Door reacts to your input. Do you need to eq out the low end of your bass when your kick drum hits? This is how you do it. Or maybe you need to eq out the midrange of your back track whenever your vocals come it. Big Beautiful Door makes this easy to do without automation.

• Dial in your sidechain with accuracy with dual mode sidechain filters.
• Choose between internal and external sidechain.

Envelope Control

Familiar envelope controls let you determine how quickly Big Beautiful Door will morph from one EQ setting to the other. Whether you need quick gating or smooth transitions, you can set it up easily.

Play your music inside the most unusual acoustic spaces
How would your music sound like if played inside the Batcave from the original 1960s TV show? Or in the stream bed beneath Byron Glacier? Or in the Cathedral Room of Shasta Lake Caverns?

What is EchoThief?
EchoThief is a real-time reverb convolution plugin built around the use of the EchoThief impulse response library. This library was created using custom, state-of-the-art signal processing technology that enables the recording of impulse responses in acoustic spaces too noisy to capture using other methods.

Gain access to previously inaccessible places
From typical convolution reverb standbys such as concert halls to previously inaccessible spaces such as the Batcave from the original 1960s TV show, this plugin will give you an unprecedented range of acoustic spaces to play in.

Stagecraft’s EchoThief also features wet/dry mix, signal pre-delay, and a compressor and EQ to enhance the space.

See the space you’re in through the plugin’s image display
The philosophy behind Stagecraft’s design principles is that the software should show you visually what it does.

Stagecraft’s EchoThief has an intuitive interface that integrates beautiful high-resolution and wide-angle images of each space available in the library. You can now see the space your music is placed in allowing you to have a better understanding of why the space sounds the way it does. This level of visual feedback is unprecedented.

Features

• Real-time convolution
• Wet / dry mix
• High-res wide-angle images of the spaces
• IR Compressor to bring out the reverb
• EQ to limit the echo effect to bands