The Pulsar Audio 8200 plug-in is a truly special and capable EQ tool for producers, mixers, and mastering engineers that painstakingly emulates the original GML 8200 analog hardware equalizer designed by George Massenburg and updates it with new features for today's digital workflows. Whether used on individual instrumental or vocal tracks, mix buses, or masters, Pulsar's 8200 offers surgically precise controls to provide powerful sound-sculpting options for your DAW.
By faithfully recreating the original EQ's parallel circuitry and Class-A electronics, the Pulsar 8200 provides unique filter shapes that allow it to deliver more natural, authentically analog-sounding results, complete with an on-screen curve editor and a spectrum analyzer for valuable visual feedback. High- and low-pass filters, Air and Sub bands, a Tilt filter, and a built-in de-esser complete this powerful plug-in processor.
Visual Curve Editing
Manipulate a peculiarly shaped analog EQ curve in an intuitive way. The curve editor is extremely easy to use, with a clear and concise overall frequency response display. You can edit all properties of any filter, including its assigned name, without touching the lower panel.
Mid-Side Processing
Make EQ changes to a signal's center or stereo information by operating in mid/side mode. The Listen buttons help audition each signal in isolation, and the screen displays only the channel you're working on, so you always know what you're doing.
Tilt Filter
Some things can't be done with just bells and shelves. Pulsar has added a complex 6-pole tilt filter to adjust the tonal balance of your whole mix in a natural and analog-style way with a single knob.
Metering and Spectrum Analyzer
The on-screen analyzer displays the audio spectrum in real time (fast and slow window settings) or over the long term with the Infinite Spectrum setting. In addition, peak metering provides insight into overall dynamics, and RMS meters let you monitor loudness and level matching. An overall gain meter is also available.
De-Esser
An embedded simple-but-efficient de-esser gives you full control over the aggressive or harsh transients of the spectrum, to get a more polished and professional result. In the central panel, choose the frequency, the amount, and the filter type (bell or shelf).
Auto-Gain
This control compensates for volume changes introduced by equalization, keeping output level consistent with input. It uses a C-Weighting-based algorithm to introduce a level compensation based on EQ curve analysis. Since this compensation only depends on your EQ settings, it won't change during playback.
Sub and Air Bands
The Air and Sub bands, inspired by the philosophy of parallel passive equalizers, allow you to fine-tune the extreme high-end and low-end of the spectrum without adding any mud or harshness.
Gain Scale
For wholesale reduction or increases in gain, the Gain Scale control lets you accentuate or reduce an entire EQ curve, acting like a multiplier for all bands' gain settings.