Rather, it's the kind of EQ that enables you to make sweet-sounding tonal changes without introducing harshness or phasey artifacts. The option to display frequency as notes makes it simple to home in on a boomy note in a fingerpicked acoustic guitar part, though Air EQ isn't capable of the surgical precision you can achieve with something like Waves' Q10. And whatever is going on under the hood works very nicely in practice. This, they say, enables Air EQ to reproduce the sought-after sonic qualities of analogue equalisers, while maintaining a low CPU load and zero processing delay. There is also nothing to warn when clipping occurs, which is a shame Eliosound say they plan to add a clip warning in a new version.īehind the retro styling lurks a new algorithm which Eliosound dub AMLT, for Analogue Matched Linear Transform. Compared with the likes of Waves' Renaissance EQ or Sonalksis's SV517, though, I missed the option of viewing and editing EQ parameters in a graph. The Options menu enables you to fine-tune the interface in a number of imaginative ways, my favourite being the ability to display frequency as notes and bandwidth in octaves. It's compact enough to fit all the controls into a single page, without taking over your entire screen, and mercifully, you can click beneath each control to type precise numerical values if you find that easier. The Air EQ interface uses rotary knobs and switches set into a sheet of virtual brushed metal, and in its understated way, looks a bit like a piece of early '70s hi-fi equipment. As it is, I find myself owning two iLoks and two Synchrosoft dongles, and not nearly enough USB ports. I had no problem authorising and running the plug-in, though I can't help wishing that manufacturers would settle on a single standard. Cubase users will already have one of these refreshingly, anyone who doesn't can order one along with Air EQ without paying extra. As well as low and high-pass filters and five bands of parametric EQ, it provides a separate Air control, which introduces "a new type of filter that helps you to restore or to add brightness to the sound".Īir EQ is available in most of the major real-time plug-in formats, and is authorised to a Synchrosoft dongle. You'd probably also expect an EQ with that name to specialise in the ill-defined but important task of adding 'air', and Air EQ doesn't disappoint. The first product by French developers Eliosound, Air EQ is, as you'd expect from the name, an equaliser plug-in. Formats: PC VST & RTAS Mac AU, VST & RTAS
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