The sound you get from this makes it hard to resist putting it on everything! Incredibly musical EQ. It's happy being subtle or in your face. Love it! Super useful, really close sounding with the hardware version. And with the satelites I can run a lot of them in my mixes:. Again and again it is astonishing what it sounds like. Not only an EQ for "technical fixes" - it's "sound and character building" in a musical way - I think.
I was using this Plugin from other companies before. But this one blows all other version away. Such a rich and warm sound. Instant buy. The ever famous boom and fizz. Most people know the pultec trick where you boost 60 hz and attenuate at the same time. When they made them originally they didn't realize the frequencies weren't quite the same, so you actually scooped out low mids just above the low end frequency you were boosting.
That of course got us closer to the Fletcher Munson curve we all love so much. This plug in is really something. UAD makes the best. I have the legacy version and eventually want to get the newest one as it sounds a bit more modern, even though I think it's meant to be a newer take on the vintage EQ. I love this collection of Pultec plugins. Putting the EQP-1A on any track makes it sound better just by passing the sound through, like the tape and summing plugins. It keeps the sound natural and smooth without harshness.
Among my favourite and most used plugins. Highly recommended. I am used to the Waves version and people always told me there was a difference.
I was so surprised at how much better it sounds. Waves is very good but this is just perfect. Great plug in, it softens the track where you put it, it also works just by inserting it without turning any knobs. Great sound just put it on a track without rotate any knob. The Pultec is a passive tube EQ characterised by smooth wide curves that has been used on countless amount of records over the last 60 years.
With quality comes……. What we thought would be useful is to begin to get an understanding of why these alternate versions of the gear can sound different to the original.
That way you can start working knowing which one will give the feel you need for any mix and hopefully learn to get the best out of each type. Click here to open the shootout player and blind test yourself and if you like them you can buy them at the bottom of the review. The low end on the EQs is all pretty comparatively similar bar the waves. The Waves sounds like it has a very different curve to the original and the other clones as on the low end boost it seems to get a bit boxy in the mid range listen to the ringing on the snare stand out.
This also happens on the Warm Audio - but not to the same extent. On the Mid Range The Pultec original sounds the most open, with the Waves following not far behind - they have done a really good job of capturing the feel of the original. This may not necessarily be an openness because of transformer sound or otherwise but could just be due to a wider Q extending more into the higher frequencies than the other EQs.
The UAD and the Warm are much more similar in this frequency range and even though they don't open out the top end as much they are still really smooth EQs.
Again, as always - this difference may be a function of the particular Pultec we are using for our reference, so take it all with a grain of salt. The Pultec also seems to retain the most punch whereas the Warm seems to smear the transients a touch resulting in a softer feel, which is still nice in its own way. On the High Frequencies The Original Pultec is the most open EQ, with a nice amount of Air to the high frequencies and a nice push to the width of the signal.
The Warm is really close in many regards and we really have to congratulate them for getting it so close. In this article we highlight some EQ plug-ins that add lots of character to your sound - some are classics and based on either vintage boards or outboard gear. We include reviews, tutorials and other information you may find helpful. White lab coats and Brylcreem are mandatory here! The passive design and the valve amplification make Pultecs very sweet and at the top end it is difficult to coax a harsh sound out of them, but it is at the bottom end that the EQP-1A has its hidden weapon.
The famous low-end trick has been an open secret among producers and engineers for a long time but rather than just demonstrate it I decided to look at it in some more detail.
Check out the content below to find out more about passive EQs and see why so many people love using them. Here is another free video tutorial from Oscar-nominated Marcelo Cryo. In this tutorial, Marcelo shows how he uses the Pultec EQ trick to tighten up the low end in film mixes on the master tracks in audio post production.
Julian uses the wide choice of frequencies available to build more complex EQ curves by using overlapping but non-identical boosts and cuts to achieve a Pultec bottom end trick style EQ but in the midrange. Pultec equalisers are a notable exception. In this 3 part series Russ shares some of the secrets from top engineers, producers and mixers. Vocals, acoustic guitars, piano, drums, you name it, Maag EQ4 sweetens it. It's effortless to learn how each of EQ4's fixed bands sound, which is an essential aspect of these types of EQ plug-ins.
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