Variety Of Sound has released BaxterEQ, a free transparent mastering and mix buss shelving EQ VST plug-in for Windows.

Finest tonal sweetening and finishing which always stays true to the source:

• Natural and accurate bass response.
• Authentic analog style HF curve rendering.
• Smoothest shelving operation.

Perfectly suited for the mastering chain:

• Stepped controls throughout for repeatability and matched channel operation.
• Full dual channel layout.
• Full mid-side encoding support.
• Per channel level control for easy A/B match.

Artifact free technical design:

• Low ripple and distortion filter implementations.
• 64-bit floating point internal processing.
• Oversampled for superior impulse response.

Meticulously selected frequencies:

• Baxandall shelving filters:
  • LF @ 74, 84, 98, 116, 131, 166, 230 and 361 Hz.
  • HF @ 1.6, 1.8, 2.1, 2.4, 3.4, 4.8, 7.1, 11 and 18 kHz.
• 2-pole Butterworth filters:
  • LC @ 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 43 and 54 Hz.
  • HC @ 7.5, 9, 11.1, 12.6, 16, 21, 28 and 40 kHz.

An additional analog signal path emulation provides some subtle but precious stereo imaging improvements.