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Softube Passive-Active Pack

Softube Passive-Active Pack

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This collection includes three highly useable equalizer models that are unique to Softube.

Passive Equalizer is modeled from a famous German passive three-band equalizer, and features a wide bandwidth and an unsurpassed clear and open sound. The low boost gives you a warm low end, perfect to fatten up a bass drum or bass guitar track. Cutting the highs gives you a very gentle 6 dB cut which allows you to remove highs in a very musical way. The high boost is open and crisp and breathes life into any track.

Active Equalizer is modeled from an active equalizer design made somewhere in the Swiss alps in the seventies. Whereas the Passive Equalizer is wide, clear and unintrusive, the Active Equalizer is more of a surgeon with a tight and focused sound. It's a highly useful problem solver when you need to get into details.


Focusing Equalizer is an inspiring and untraditional take on the EQ concept, which is all made up by Softube. The Focusing Equalizer works in a very musical way and does a lot of thinking for you.

At first glance it may seem like you're sacrificing versatility by using an equalizer with a limited set of options - why use a three-band equalizer when you can use your digital equalizer with umpteen bands, continous gain, selectable Q and different curves all built in? Well, equalization is all about sound design. Having an equalizer where the designer has already made some of the choices four you is like having an experienced sound engineer helping out and giving you directions.

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Product Name Softube Passive-Active Pack
Brand Softube
Condition New
MPN SFT-PAQ-NAT
Shipping Option Electronic Delivery

Passive Equalizer in short

  • Three bands with an extremely wide and open sound
  • Excellent treble control without any "digital harshness"
  • Warm low end and a sparkling top

Active Equalizer in short

  • Tight and focused sounding filters
  • Low and High cut
  • Three parametric bands with selectable gain in 2dB steps (-/+ 16 dB), selectable frequency with overlapping, but non-interfering, bands (50-500 Hz, 380Hz-3.8kHz, 1.8-18kHz) and a choice between a narrow or wide peak (Q) for each band.

Features Focusing Equalizer in short

  • Inspiring, untraditional and very useful workflow
  • Choose between Passive or Active EQ character
  • Three-band EQ that automatically and musically changes with Low and High Cut
  • Built-in one knob saturation with metering and selectable saturation type

All Native Versions

  • Mac OS X 10.9 or newer.
  • Windows 64-bit, versions 7, 8 or 10.
  • Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2 or newer
  • Screen resolution larger than 1280x800
  • 1 GB RAM or more, and at least 6 GB hard disk space for installation (individual plug-ins take less space)
  • Any VST, VST3, AU, or AAX (Pro Tools 10.3.7, 11.0.2 or higher) compatible host application
  • Softube/Gobbler account
  • Gobbler application to manage license activation and plug-in downloads
  • Broadband internet access for downloading installer and registering licenses.

All Softube plug-ins support both 32- and 64-bit hosts, although a 64-bit OS is required. Supported sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4 and 192 kHz, in both mono and stereo.

AAX DSP Version

  • For AAX DSP you need to meet the requirements for the Native version. You also need to have an Avid HDX processing card.
  • Different plug-ins will have a different load on your HDX card.

TDM/VENUE is no longer supported

Softube Passive-Active Pack

Details

This collection includes three highly useable equalizer models that are unique to Softube.

Passive Equalizer is modeled from a famous German passive three-band equalizer, and features a wide bandwidth and an unsurpassed clear and open sound. The low boost gives you a warm low end, perfect to fatten up a bass drum or bass guitar track. Cutting the highs gives you a very gentle 6 dB cut which allows you to remove highs in a very musical way. The high boost is open and crisp and breathes life into any track.

Active Equalizer is modeled from an active equalizer design made somewhere in the Swiss alps in the seventies. Whereas the Passive Equalizer is wide, clear and unintrusive, the Active Equalizer is more of a surgeon with a tight and focused sound. It's a highly useful problem solver when you need to get into details.


Focusing Equalizer is an inspiring and untraditional take on the EQ concept, which is all made up by Softube. The Focusing Equalizer works in a very musical way and does a lot of thinking for you.

At first glance it may seem like you're sacrificing versatility by using an equalizer with a limited set of options - why use a three-band equalizer when you can use your digital equalizer with umpteen bands, continous gain, selectable Q and different curves all built in? Well, equalization is all about sound design. Having an equalizer where the designer has already made some of the choices four you is like having an experienced sound engineer helping out and giving you directions.

More Information
Product Name Softube Passive-Active Pack
Brand Softube
Condition New
MPN SFT-PAQ-NAT
Shipping Option Electronic Delivery
Features

Passive Equalizer in short

  • Three bands with an extremely wide and open sound
  • Excellent treble control without any "digital harshness"
  • Warm low end and a sparkling top

Active Equalizer in short

  • Tight and focused sounding filters
  • Low and High cut
  • Three parametric bands with selectable gain in 2dB steps (-/+ 16 dB), selectable frequency with overlapping, but non-interfering, bands (50-500 Hz, 380Hz-3.8kHz, 1.8-18kHz) and a choice between a narrow or wide peak (Q) for each band.

Features Focusing Equalizer in short

  • Inspiring, untraditional and very useful workflow
  • Choose between Passive or Active EQ character
  • Three-band EQ that automatically and musically changes with Low and High Cut
  • Built-in one knob saturation with metering and selectable saturation type
Tech Specs

All Native Versions

  • Mac OS X 10.9 or newer.
  • Windows 64-bit, versions 7, 8 or 10.
  • Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2 or newer
  • Screen resolution larger than 1280x800
  • 1 GB RAM or more, and at least 6 GB hard disk space for installation (individual plug-ins take less space)
  • Any VST, VST3, AU, or AAX (Pro Tools 10.3.7, 11.0.2 or higher) compatible host application
  • Softube/Gobbler account
  • Gobbler application to manage license activation and plug-in downloads
  • Broadband internet access for downloading installer and registering licenses.

All Softube plug-ins support both 32- and 64-bit hosts, although a 64-bit OS is required. Supported sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4 and 192 kHz, in both mono and stereo.

AAX DSP Version

  • For AAX DSP you need to meet the requirements for the Native version. You also need to have an Avid HDX processing card.
  • Different plug-ins will have a different load on your HDX card.

TDM/VENUE is no longer supported

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