Acon Digital Equalize
- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 648 posts since 6 Nov, 2011 from The Netherlands
Acon Digital released Equalize today, a parametric equalizer that can work in linear phase, minimal phase and mixed phase. We have been beta testing this wonderful EQ for little over a month now and it already has become our favorite parametric equalizer.
Yes, there are many good EQ plugins these days, there is no point in denying that, but the combination of the intuitive workflow, the ability to set the slope for each band separately, the ability to have mid, side, right and left bands at the same time, all combined with a wonderful sound quality, is what makes this EQ stand out in our opinion.
Acon Digital entered our radar when they released Verberate, a reverb plugin that turned out to become one of our favorite algorithmic reverb plugins. So yeah, maybe we are biased, but we truly believe Equalize deserves the same amount of praise as Verberate. We believe both products are the realization of a company that is designing and developing plugins with a passion and a big amount of great skills.
Check it out here: http://acondigital.com/products/equalize/
Cheers!
Yes, there are many good EQ plugins these days, there is no point in denying that, but the combination of the intuitive workflow, the ability to set the slope for each band separately, the ability to have mid, side, right and left bands at the same time, all combined with a wonderful sound quality, is what makes this EQ stand out in our opinion.
Acon Digital entered our radar when they released Verberate, a reverb plugin that turned out to become one of our favorite algorithmic reverb plugins. So yeah, maybe we are biased, but we truly believe Equalize deserves the same amount of praise as Verberate. We believe both products are the realization of a company that is designing and developing plugins with a passion and a big amount of great skills.
Check it out here: http://acondigital.com/products/equalize/
Cheers!
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- KVRist
- 287 posts since 7 Oct, 2005 from San Francisco
This is amazing! Does any other EQ let you set M/S for individual bands like this? I'm currently looking for a clean EQ but now that I have tried this I don't think I can live without this feature.
- KVRian
- 1104 posts since 31 Aug, 2004
M/S per band? It is pretty common feature. Check Toneboosters EQ, Pro-Q, EQuick, Equality, EQuilibrium....asksol wrote:This is amazing! Does any other EQ let you set M/S for individual bands like this? I'm currently looking for a clean EQ but now that I have tried this I don't think I can live without this feature.
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- Banned
- 22457 posts since 5 Sep, 2001
nevertheless looks like an amazing EQ with typical Acon ease of use. Going to try this now.
Any "bundle" upgrade for users of all your other plugins?
Any "bundle" upgrade for users of all your other plugins?
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- KVRAF
- 2063 posts since 14 Sep, 2004 from $HOME
I like Acon's multiply and Verberate, great sound and all their plugins have a very well designed GUI, clear and logical layout and very high usability. Looking good, too.
For workhorse EQ though I am quite content with TBEQ at the moment so I might pass if not for sudden GAS
For workhorse EQ though I am quite content with TBEQ at the moment so I might pass if not for sudden GAS
- KVRian
- 1466 posts since 1 Jan, 2005 from Norway
Thanks! As others have written, setting M/S for the bands individually is quite common, but the ability to set L/M/Both/S/R per band is unique as far as I know.asksol wrote:This is amazing! Does any other EQ let you set M/S for individual bands like this? I'm currently looking for a clean EQ but now that I have tried this I don't think I can live without this feature.
EDIT: Sorry, apparently I didn't read the posts above thoroughly enough. Seems as if the TB EQ has the same feature as well...
Best,
Stian
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- KVRian
- 1466 posts since 1 Jan, 2005 from Norway
There's already the introduction offer (20% off until December 25), but I agree that a bundle offer for those who have several Acon plug-ins would be fair. I'll have to think about it...TheoM wrote:nevertheless looks like an amazing EQ with typical Acon ease of use. Going to try this now.
Any "bundle" upgrade for users of all your other plugins?
Stian
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- Banned
- 22457 posts since 5 Sep, 2001
stian wrote:There's already the introduction offer (20% off until December 25), but I agree that a bundle offer for those who have several Acon plug-ins would be fair. I'll have to think about it...TheoM wrote:nevertheless looks like an amazing EQ with typical Acon ease of use. Going to try this now.
Any "bundle" upgrade for users of all your other plugins?
Stian
awesome. Have ALL the others here, including the restoration suite Love your work
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- KVRist
- 287 posts since 7 Oct, 2005 from San Francisco
Oh, guess I have been missing out then, well always nice to have a revelation
One thing that could be negative for me with this EQ is that you can only control one band at a time with knobs.
I guess you'd get used to it, but maybe it would be easier if there's a row of buttons so you can quickly jump
to a band? ([1], [2], [3], and so on). Maybe with free moving bands you have to look at the graph anyway to figure
where they are, so it wouldn't help much. I see you can have up to 12 bands, (equick/equilibrium can do 32!), is it normal
to use that many? I guess you could do comb filtering
One thing that could be negative for me with this EQ is that you can only control one band at a time with knobs.
I guess you'd get used to it, but maybe it would be easier if there's a row of buttons so you can quickly jump
to a band? ([1], [2], [3], and so on). Maybe with free moving bands you have to look at the graph anyway to figure
where they are, so it wouldn't help much. I see you can have up to 12 bands, (equick/equilibrium can do 32!), is it normal
to use that many? I guess you could do comb filtering
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- KVRian
- 524 posts since 29 Jul, 2009 from San Diego, CA
Yes not being able to grab multiple bands seems odd. Also muting bands should be shown on the graph, gets confusing which band is muted at a glance. Other than that I'm loving this EQ. I like the ability to adjust the HP/LP filter slope freely. Waves Renaissance equalizer is the only other EQ I've seen that on.
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- KVRian
- 702 posts since 19 Mar, 2014 from Denver, CO
Pro-Q or Pro-Q2, and both are clean sounding.asksol wrote:This is amazing! Does any other EQ let you set M/S for individual bands like this? I'm currently looking for a clean EQ but now that I have tried this I don't think I can live without this feature.
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- KVRist
- 385 posts since 2 Mar, 2003 from UK
I was really looking forward to trying this EQ, while it does sound very good, the cpu hit is just to much even in zero latency mode, for what it does, hopefully in an update or two the cpu usage will be halved?
I have Verberate ...and that "IS" my go to Reverb, but I remember that also having teething troubles when it first came out with cpu etc..
On a side note the Toneboosters TB equalizer since version 3.0.8 is the most efficient but great sounding EQ out there , especially when you need a high instance count, Fabfilter ProQ2 a close second in efficiency but obviously with a bucket load more features.
Cheers.
KingofBeers.
I have Verberate ...and that "IS" my go to Reverb, but I remember that also having teething troubles when it first came out with cpu etc..
On a side note the Toneboosters TB equalizer since version 3.0.8 is the most efficient but great sounding EQ out there , especially when you need a high instance count, Fabfilter ProQ2 a close second in efficiency but obviously with a bucket load more features.
Cheers.
KingofBeers.