The MP-EQ Plug-In from Pulsar is an emulation of a legendary analog EQ found in almost every mastering studio worldwide. Pulsar MP-EQ faithfully recreates every sonic detail of the original hardware while adding modern features like visual curve editing, drive control, linear phase mode, or auto-gain. The plug-in supports AAX (Native), AU, VST2, VST3 protocols and works in DAWs running on Windows and Mac systems.
Improving on a Classic
- Pulsar MP-EQ comes with a complete onscreen curve editor and spectrum analyzer.
- This best-of-both-world approach gives an accurate overview of your EQ changes while highlighting the singular. behaviors of the original unit.
- The easy-to-use graphic interface allows a fast and radical workflow for mixing applications.
Designed for Modern Production
- Pulsar MP-EQ takes full advantage of modern CPUs to do more with less.
- Despite the tremendous amount of complexity in the audio algorithms you’ll be able to use a large number of instances.
- The resizable interface and wise choice of modern features will make Pulsar MP-EQ your go-to color EQ.
Analog Drive and Harmonic Character
- The Drive control allows usage of the plug-in at internal levels where the analog vibe of the original unit is unusual and musical.
- Pulsar MP-EQ’s accurate models of transformers, tubes, and inductors produce large amounts of harmonics and nonlinearities. All coupled together, these are responsible for the subtle, dynamic and program-dependent low-end compression beloved by generations of sound engineers.
True Parallel EQ Architecture
- Pulsar MP-EQ is a component-accurate model of the original unit, perfectly emulating its parallel EQ design and the unique sound-sculpting feeling.
- With parallel EQ, band gains don’t accumulate as in most other EQs, but rather recombine to produce natural-sounding corrections.
- The Pultec-like low-shelf filters allow a generous and tight low end, even at extreme boost settings. The high-shelf filters provide pristine top end and air without harshness.
Linear Phase Correction
- In most EQ emulations, each frequency experiences a different phase shift, a natural result of analog circuit behavior. Pulsar MP-EQ introduces, for the first time in an audio plug-in, a process that optionally realigns all frequencies after the EQ stage, transforming an analog-style EQ into a true linear phase EQ.
- In the low end, this phase correction restores the clarity and punch often lost when fundamentals and harmonics drift out of sync, preventing that familiar muddy or bloated bass.
- For EDM producers, preserving the exact waveform of synthesizers is particularly important, because phase rotations can alter the signal’s peak-to-RMS ratio, and therefore influence cascaded dynamics processors.
- Additionally, during M/S processing, Pulsar MP-EQ eliminates the asymmetrical artifacts that typically occur around a band’s center frequency when the Mid and Side channels are recombined in traditional analog-style EQs.