Nomad Factory has announced Retrology Motown, a collection of two plug-ins, Retro Film-Tone and Retro Music-Tone, designed to improve the quality of digital sound recordings. These plug-ins recreate the warm sound qualities of legendary analog hardware passive equalizers used by Motown engineers. The plug-ins provide a simple and functional "Vintage/Retro-Style" interface, as well as low CPU consumption.

Retro Music-Tone

Retro Music-Tone is a 7-band passive equalizer plug-in emulation of the hardware version used exclusively by Motown engineers. It provides a close emulation of the original units which introduces Proportional Q, a feature where small boost/cuts will have a broad Q and greater boost/cuts will have a narrower Q.

Features:

• 7-band equalizer with, Gain and Proportional Q.
• 50 Hz, 130 Hz, 320 Hz, 800 Hz, 2 KHz, 5 KHz and 12.5 KHz.
• Boost / Cut up to 8dB per band.
• Phase reverse switch.
• Vintage VU Meter.
• 24 bit / 192 KHz supported.

Retro Film-Tone

Retro Film-Tone is also a 7-band passive equalizer with fixed frequencies and Proportional Q emulation of the hardware version used exclusively by Motown engineers. It provides a close emulation of the original units which introduces Proportional Q, a feature where small boost/cuts will have a broad Q and greater boost/cuts will have a narrower Q.

Features:

• 7-band equalizer with, Gain and Proportional Q.
• 80 Hz, 200 Hz, 500 Hz, 1.2 KHz, 3.2 KHz, 8 KHz and 16 KHz.
• Boost / Cut up to 8dB per band.
• Phase reverse switch.
• Vintage VU Meter.
• 24 bit / 192 KHz supported.

Priced at $149, Retrology Motown is "coming soon" for Windows and Mac OS X in VST, AU and RTAS formats.