Dynamic equalizers

Dynamic equalizers are the latest evolution in equalization. They represent something between normal equalizers and dynamic processors, such as compressors and expanders. In practice they can work as both.

You use them as normal parametric equalizers, but each band can vary its gain according to input signal level. This can be very useful for several tasks such as de-essing, compression/expansion of part of spectrum (similarly to multiband compression) or even for example for avoiding collisions between bass drum and bass using side-chain. And the great things is that they are very easy to use.

These equalizers feature our latest technology, such as adjustable slope technology for versatile and musically sounding shelve filters, high-pass & low-pass filters with slopes up to 120dB/oct, automatic equalization, integrated analyzer & sonogram etc.

Linear-phase parametric equalizers

Normal equalizers (including hardware analog equalizers) modify phase of the signal. Simply put, the modified frequencies are also slightly delayed in time. This can cause problems when processing some complicated multi-tracked materials and some engineers also prefer a different sound in specific cases, especially for mastering.

Linear-phase equalizers on the other hand do not cause the phase shift, however they exhibit latency, so they are not usable realtime. They also cause so-called pre-ringing, so that they won't be usable for all materials. High-end ones, like the following, are also more expensive, because the technology required for implementation is much more complicated than with normal equalizers.

Freeform equalizers

Freeform equalizers are not controlled using parametric bands, but you can "draw" the exact response you want instead. Most of these equalizers (such as MFreeformEqualizer) are based on processing in spectral domain, using so-called FFT, which causes several artifacts, usually is linear-phase, but can provide theoretically any response you draw. We also provide MFreeformAnalogEq, which automatically manages several parametric bands and tries to get the response you want.

Parametric equalizers

Normal parametric equalizers are available in most reasonable hosts. Our plugins however provide higher filter quality, additional features (soft-saturation, upsampling etc.) and improved resizable GUI with integrated analyzer and sonogram.