Whats new in BLACKQ – Version 3 ? A NEW AND IMPROVED VERSION OF BLACK Q – V2, NOW FEATURES OVERLAPPING BANDS AND NEW FREQUENCY RANGES AS WELL AS OVERSAMPLING FOR MORE “ANALOG” BEHAVIOR. The Philosophy behind Smooth Tube EQ. At T.E we are obsessed with “Sound”. We recently brought a vintage unit to life by building the hardware version over 6 months, changing tubes, transformers and signal paths.
The original KLEIN & HUMMEL UE-100® EQs are extremely rare and expensive. But Rafa Sardina – who has 12 Grammy wins and 35 nominations – owns 10 of them! What is so special about this weird and wonderful device? For some time, hardware equalizers had to each be developed with a specific purpose in mind, requiring engineers to combine different EQ types in one signal chain in order to achieve the frequency response they needed on any given source. They would have to accept the necessary evil of the resulting phase and intermodulation distortion when treating these sounds. When released in 1961, the Klein & Hummel UE-100 Universal Equalizer changed all that. This all-tube minimum phase EQ used six discrete filter modules to create a collection of band-pass filters that could create dynamic curves for any application from source mixing to vocal tracking to mastering. While some earlier UE-100s were used to transparently filter out junk low and high frequencies when printing to tape and vinyl, it quickly became commonplace to take advantage of the unique pushbutton frequency selection; this provided an easy way to not only recall settings, but also alter them on the fly while recording a performance. The UE-100 became known for its musically warm curves and precise response, offering a myriad of possibilities for treating frequencies by boosting and/or cutting across the spectrum to shape sounds “like a Pultec on steroids.”
No other high end equaliser can offer the same degree of power and flexibility as the Modern Tube eQualizer which is included in the Modern Tube Console as parametric channel equalizer. This equalizer is very usable and controls most situations effortlessly and musically, with his warmth, transparency, smoothness and less midrange aggression than a classic British eQ. Modern Tube eQualizer manages to sound clean and clear without being weak and characterless. There is little tube colouration, just a maturity of tone.
Passive EQ is a fully-parametric, two-channel, four-band equalizer, with additional high and low pass filters plus a wide collection of presets for all use cases. Characterized by its versatile nature and natural sound, it is well suited to a wide range of production duties ? from individual tracks to sub groups and even mastering. This effect belongs to the PREMIUM TUBE SERIES, produced in collaboration with Softube. These “Swedish rock ‘n’ roll scientists” specialize in incredibly accurate software emulations of professional audio hardware.
Whats new in BLACKQ – Version 3 ? A NEW AND IMPROVED VERSION OF BLACK Q – V2, NOW FEATURES OVERLAPPING BANDS AND NEW FREQUENCY RANGES AS WELL AS OVERSAMPLING FOR MORE “ANALOG” BEHAVIOR. The Philosophy behind Smooth Tube EQ. At T.E we are obsessed with “Sound”. We recently brought a vintage unit to life by building the hardware version over 6 months, changing tubes, transformers and signal paths.
Black Q is a 4 band Tube Eq with 2 modes of saturation. These are modeled from analog equipment featuring Sowter and Lundahl transformers and Various Tubes. A NEW AND IMPROVED VERSION OF BLACK Q – V2, NOW FEATURES OVERLAPPING BANDS AND NEW FREQUENCY RANGES AS WELL AS OVERSAMPLING FOR MORE “ANALOG” BEHAVIOR
Tube based EQ for all use cases you ever think of.
