These days plugins sound every bit as good as hardware. It’s always been a hot debate in pro audio on if plugins could ever be comparable to hardware. You can have up to 24 bands, and can even make frequency selections by note value in the Piano Roll view. And there are more than 10 band types to choose from.Ĭlean EQ sounds are what it does best, but if you want to add some analog flavor there is a Natural Phase mode. The Overhauled Spectrum Grab feature lets you locate unpleasant peaks.Frequency collision indication means you won’t get any more unpleasant band or slope overlap. It’s got Dolby Atmos support that lets you make EQ moves based on the individual speaker. And FabFilter made a lot of updates in this third iteration. Some are meant to be surgical tools that are clean and efficient. Some EQs are meant to add their own character to the signal. Best mastering EQ plugin: iZotope Ozone 10 EQ 30dB of headroom gives you plenty of sonic space.īoth of these classic equalizers are crazy affordable, so you can finally put the characteristic API sound in your virtual rack. It’s got the same repeatable, reciprocal filtering of the 550A and the same amount of boost/cut and all bands offer shelf or peak EQ styles. The 550B sports 4-bands with seven frequency centers on each ranging five octaves. Proportional Q widens the bandwidth at lower settings and narrows at higher settings. At +30dB, you don’t really have to worry about running out of headroom. There is a maximum of 12dB boost and cut on each, stepped in 2-3dB increments. The 550A is a 3-band EQ with five pre-selected center frequencies per band.

Waves Audio combined them in this plugin to give you the best of both worlds. As pioneers of the 500 series, their 550A and B models are some of their most popular. Like Neve, API is a company that has multiple legendary EQs to their name.

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