KVR Audio

de la Mancha · Post by **de la Mancha** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:23 pm

click for more info and full size screenshot

http://www.delamancha.co.uk/QB3.htm

Released a few days earlier than expected, QB-3 is available as a Windows VST for $24 or in a bundle with GTO/GTX Vintage Compressors for $41
(GTO/GTX owners should have an email with a deal to get QB-3 for $12)

QB-3 is a vintage-style, 3-band EQ plug-in, with its own unique colouring and a few tricks up its sleeve. For each band you can adjust the centre frequency and gain. For the low and high shelving bands you can adjust the steepness of the slope, whilst for the mid peaking band you can adjust the bandwidth. This allows a range of sounds from steep, sharp cuts to smooth and gentle boosts.

But the Queen Bee is not a super clean and transparent plug-in. QB-3 features a pleasing combination of harmonics, saturation and low level noise to bring a subtle mojo to your sound. You also have the option to switch on a 40Hz cut to boost your low frequency headroom and a limiter to curb any peaks.

Please visit the webpage for more info, demo VST, audio examples and purchase info: http://www.delamancha.co.uk/QB3.htm

cheers

dlM

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:59 pm

I made this same plugin a couple weeks ago, I used the basic SE filters for a smooth sound, I tried cascading Ck filters but it was too intense.

daz.diamond · Post by **daz.diamond** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:17 pm

RunBeerRun wrote:I made this same plugin a couple weeks ago

link ?

de la Mancha · Post by **de la Mancha** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:17 pm

RunBeerRun wrote:I made this same plugin a couple weeks ago, I used the basic SE filters for a smooth sound, I tried cascading Ck filters but it was too intense.

Really? I made this same plugin a couple of weeks ago too. But I didn't use the basic SE filters because SE doesn't have shelving or peaking filters. So I guess it isn't the same plugin.

Download SOphist · Post by **Download SOphist** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:21 pm

de la Mancha wrote:
RunBeerRun wrote:I made this same plugin a couple weeks ago, I used the basic SE filters for a smooth sound, I tried cascading Ck filters but it was too intense.
Really? I made this same plugin a couple of weeks ago too. But I didn't use the basic SE filters because SE doesn't have shelving or peaking filters. So I guess it isn't the same plugin.

this seems to be a job for... er...
nevermind.

daz.diamond · Post by **daz.diamond** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:38 pm

RunBeerRun wrote:I made this same plugin a couple weeks ago, I used the basic SE filters for a smooth sound, I tried cascading Ck filters but it was too intense, I did a screenshot :

There, I fixed it.

de la Mancha · Post by **de la Mancha** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:07 pm

So a few pictures from the manual and webpage to show what QB-3 is doing

Here's the Low and High band shelving filters, with adjustable gain and slope

Note if you go to negative values in the slope, you get a kind of resonant filter behaviour

Here's the Mid band peaking filter, with adjustable gain and bandwidth

and here's the mojo [click for full size]

nickm · Post by **nickm** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:58 pm

Are the added harmonics level dependent? If so, what's the "baseline" level (as in where would +4 be in analog world)?

eduardo_b · Post by **eduardo_b** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:59 pm

Download SOphist wrote:
de la Mancha wrote:
RunBeerRun wrote:I made this same plugin a couple weeks ago, I used the basic SE filters for a smooth sound, I tried cascading Ck filters but it was too intense.
Really? I made this same plugin a couple of weeks ago too. But I didn't use the basic SE filters because SE doesn't have shelving or peaking filters. So I guess it isn't the same plugin.
this seems to be a job for... er...
nevermind.

Is it...can it be...Inspector EQ?

de la Mancha · Post by **de la Mancha** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 1:06 am

nickm wrote:Are the added harmonics level dependent? If so, what's the "baseline" level (as in where would +4 be in analog world)?

Yes, the harmonics are proportional to the signal level. I'm not sure what you mean by the rest of your question though

futurefields · Post by **futurefields** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 1:43 am

RunBeerRun wrote:I made this same plugin a couple weeks ago, I used the basic SE filters for a smooth sound, I tried cascading Ck filters but it was too intense.

i guess you lose

barbecutie · Post by **barbecutie** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:11 am

Wow!!! I love the skin on this eq.

Curious - What other vst was used on the vox samples?

BBC

de la Mancha · Post by **de la Mancha** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:40 am

Thanks

For all the audio examples, there is a before and after, the only difference is QB-3, no other effects or processing is used.

However, in the vox samples, I am not sure what effects may have been used to make the 'before' sample, it was recorded quite some time ago, not by me and I don't have a project file for it. It was recorded by my bandmate and ended up in this track: http://www.mono-log.co.uk/In_One_Ear.mp3

mr jkn · Post by **mr jkn** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:57 am

Very much like these character comps and eq! Will probably buy them tomorrow. An extra midband on the eq would be reeeally cool though!

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:58 am

de la Mancha wrote:
nickm wrote:Are the added harmonics level dependent? If so, what's the "baseline" level (as in where would +4 be in analog world)?
Yes, the harmonics are proportional to the signal level. I'm not sure what you mean by the rest of your question though

I think he is asking if the nominal level is set according to +4dBU that if it corresponds to 0dBFS or -20dBFS. If it is set to -20dBFS then it means that most people will be hitting your plugin much too had. If it's set internally to around 0dBFS then it only "overloads" when it gets signals above 0dBFS (which requires floating point precision, eh? Damn.. wish I understood these things better

).

Hitting an analogue tube processor at around +4dBU to +10dBU is still resulting in kind of nominal levels (of course depending on the unit) without too much harmonic distortion, this would be relative to about -20dBFS. I'm not entirely sure how they got to this but because 0dBFS is right at the top of the dynamic range in digital that would be around +20 to +30dBU in some analogue equipment which would mean +4dBU is around -20dBFS in the digital domain. Bleh.. I probably got it all wrong.

Cheers!
bManic

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