Lathe EQ
Air that sounds like air.
Push an air boost on a textbook digital EQ and the top of it gets squashed before it ever reaches the air. Lathe EQ keeps the shape an analog EQ gives it, holds its own loudness so a boost can't fool you, and its dynamic bands set themselves to your track.
Shape it on the graph.
Or let it listen.
Air like analog
Bells, shelves and high cuts follow the analog curve all the way up, instead of squashing toward the top of the range.
AUTO GAIN and COMPARE
AUTO GAIN keeps the output as loud as the input, measured on your track, not guessed from the curve. COMPARE plays your original at the same loudness. Louder always wins for a second. This takes that away.
Dynamic bands that LISTEN
Any bell or shelf can work only when its range gets loud, with its own attack and release. Hit LISTEN and every dynamic band sets its threshold from five seconds of your track.
Mid, side, left, right
Put any band on the middle, the sides or one channel. Tame a harsh vocal in the centre without touching the guitars out wide.
24 bands
Bell, low and high shelf, low and high cut, notch, band pass and a tilt shelf. Cuts from 12 to 96 dB/oct.
Live analyzer
The signal behind every curve, so you see what you're cutting before you cut it.
Fast hands
Double-click to add a band, drag to move it, scroll for width, right-click for type and slope. Solo any band, and flip between two full settings with A and B.
35 presets, grouped
From heavy rhythm guitars and djent low end to EDM subs, hip-hop 808s, podcast voice and mastering tilt.
- Air like analog, measured. A +6 dB bell at 15 kHz: at 18 kHz an analog EQ gives +5.3 dB. The textbook digital bell gives +3.0 at 48 kHz. Lathe EQ gives +4.9.
- Dynamic bands that follow your track. On our nu metal riff, LISTEN set the preset's two dynamic bands to -28.8 and -24.8 dB. With the same riff 12 dB quieter, it set them 12 dB lower. Same job, whatever the level.
- Measured, not guessed. On a raw nu metal riff we recorded, the Heavy Rhythm Guitar preset added 3.4 dB at 2 kHz and took 3.4 dB out at 63 Hz, at the same loudness. The video shows it.
- Same look as the rest of the paid line. If you know Vantage or Crucible, you already know where everything is.
Lathe EQ and Vise Comp.
Better together.
Lathe EQ comes out December 8, alongside Vise Comp. Lathe EQ is $49, or get both for $79 (launch week: $69). Get an email that day, plus the free Heavy Mix Cheat Sheet right now.