ZL Audio

The best free EQ I've ever seen, better then some paid ones. Only thing missing is a preset saving and sharing feature.

Hello! I highly appreciate you providing such a gem for FREE! With so many in-depth control, it does wonders, as well as your EQ and Splitter! It even outclasses most paid plugins! IMO, its only competitors are MTurboComp and pajSoil EiS (and its paid version but it has gone missing). If possible, I'd like you to enrich this Comp. even more! What I guess would be great additions are.

• "Preparation", gradual gain reduction before attack (like release function on the other side), another type of lookahead without need for adjusting peak-hold. It's implemented in aforementioned pajSoil and Kilohearts Compactor.

• Delay option for sidechain signal.

•"Step-hold", peak-hold that doesn't preserve falling edge of signals creating sharp cliffs, in addition to the current "True-hold".

• Inifinite to 1 ratio and negative ratio up to -0.01 : 1, an option to fold signals beyond the threshold (I've never seen this implemented intuitively except in Eventide Omnipressor and pajSoil), featured here: Negative Ratio Compression.

• Extreme parameter range e.g. infinite range, -144dB knee, 10000s RMS length...

• S-shaped reduction stage (intermediate character between exponential and linear).

• Magnitude analyser for sidechained signal.

If ZLComp. currently didn't have FIR filter, I think it would also be an improvement.

Again, your Comp. is magnificent! Thank you for your plugins and constant updates.

Really nice plugin! Love how it splits peak/steady, mid/side, low/high, left/right and transients — super useful and surprisingly intuitive. Works great on Debian + ARM -based Linux too! Sure, it could use a few small UX tweaks, but it's free and actively developed, so that's an easy 5/5 from me. Multiple outputs let you go wild with post processing the splitted Signals.

Can't believe this is free. Extremely powerful, with features like independent side chain filter for each filter, and relative dynamic behaviour. Very intuitive workflow, and tool tips makes it easy to learn. Many thanks to ZL Audio.

I would like to write a review of this compressor. It is a great plugin that includes advanced features that few would expect from a free compressor. I am surprised that no one has written a review yet. The plugin has much lower CPU consumption (without oversampling) than my stock compressor, which is great, if only because of the HPF sidechain, which is very useful. The GUI is... classic ZL, but the colors can be changed, similar to ZL EQ, which is also an amazing plugin, by the way. In one of my projects, the GUI froze or failed to load, but that was a problem with multiple plugins in the project, so I attribute it to the excessive number of third-party effects and instruments in the project. I dare say that this is a top-notch plugin, and even though I'm still trying to understand all its features and maximize its potential, it will definitely remain one of my most used plugins. Thank you.

Nice lightweight EQ. Not sure in what situation I can need 16 bands but this fact itself is pretty pleasant)) The main pro of this EQ is its dynamic mode - otherwise I would be content with the native FL's Parametric EQ2. Thanks to the developer's advice about frequency titles - changing opacitt really helped!).

I hope the developers are reading this because I haven't found another ZL EQ forum. I recently updated my version from 0.3.5 to 0.4.3. I wanted to test it in Wavelab because I found a YT tutorial that I like. Especially a click on the icon on the top left led to the WL and ZL Qualizer being completely frozen. Is this known? I don't dare to test the plugin anymore.

Without a doubt the best Equalizer (free/and maybe paid version) thanks a lot to the creator, i just love it.