Bee-Happy 550 - Free american vintage EQ

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Hello,
I'd like to share my first creation in the VST world.
It's meant to be an emulation of a famous EQ (sure you can guess...)
I just passed two weeks to check, tweak, compare, try and read forums and since I am totally unable to write (or even read) one line of code, this release is a kind of patchwork (see the credits). I just made my brain on fire to find some creative way to put this together and to fix common issues with EQ design (Nyquist freq warping, phase issues,...)
So I hope you'll enjoy this even if it's not that revolutionary ;-)

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/j0aw5uumpakr0 ... %20550.zip

*SPECS*

- Carefully matched EQ curves with gain-dependant variable Q.
- No oversampling but (quite) corrected curves near nyquist frequency (only for 44.1 & 48 kHz samplerates). (info)
- Soft clip (odd harmonics) & tube (even & odd) distortion section.
- No warped phase behaviour in the high range.(info)
- Double precision with a SNR of 125dB.
- Synthmaker based
- Windows only ATM



*CREDITS*

Big thanks to these guys (which are "real" developers !! ;-)

- "tor" for his double precision version of biquad filters.
Check his website for great free VST gems: http://www.audioteknikk.net

- Christian-W. Budde for his awesome "VST Plugin Analyzer": http://www.savioursofsoul.de/Christian/

- g200kg for the cool & free tool KnobMan
http://www.g200kg.com/en/software/knobman.html

PS: BigUp to Mr Bootsy, you did it one more tiiiime !! Nice work guy !
Last edited by Madbee on Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:47 pm, edited 4 times in total.
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Hi, Madbee

This appears to be a pretty good EQ, and I appreciate the effort, but it does a very odd thing. Upon loading in a project, it automatically launches a browser page to your blog site. It also cumulatively adds more and more tabs for each time you launch the plug-in, so if you are launching it for the fifth time, it simultaneously opens five new tabs in Chrome linking to your website. This is really unprecedented. Deleting the internet link from the VST folder didn't stop this behavior.

I have no problem with a clickable link to your website on the plug-in itself, but automatically opening the website whenever the plug-in is launched is too much and I can't use it under those circumstances.

I'm not sure if any of this was intentional, or maybe it's behavior limited to my DAW or browser (I use Reaper and Chrome).

Thanks,
Dave
"You don’t expect much beyond a gaping, misspelled void when you stare into the cold dark place that is Internet comments."

---Salon on internet trolls attacking Cleveland kidnapping victim Amanda Berry
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Ok, thanks for this early debugging session, i'm going to fix this, it was not supposed to do that !
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Cool. So far this EQ seems like really good work!
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OK, the horrible awful bad pop-up link is dead, RIP...
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Thanks! 8)
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---Salon on internet trolls attacking Cleveland kidnapping victim Amanda Berry
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real simple, but very nice thanks.
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Ma AU version please
If your plugin is a Synth-edit/synth-maker creation, Say So.
If not Make a Mac version of your Plugins Please.

https://soundcloud.com/realmarco

...everyone is out to get me!!!!!!!
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Madbee wrote:corrected curves near nyquist frequency (only for 44.1 & 48 kHz samplerates).
- No warped phase behaviour in the high range.
nope, not true ! Please don't mis-inform people.
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sunny_j wrote:
Madbee wrote:corrected curves near nyquist frequency (only for 44.1 & 48 kHz samplerates).
- No warped phase behaviour in the high range.
nope, not true ! Please don't mis-inform people.
OK OK troll-man, can you explain a bit your point of view, what kind of tests did you make, etc...
and please, when you make a quote don't forget some important words (*QUITE* corrected curves...) I'm not saying that you get the real behaviour of a vintage EQ, but the Q is adjusted depending on the frequency to be NOT TO MUCH warped.
So when you say "don't mis-inform people", let's have a big laugh !!!
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Madbee wrote:OK OK troll-man
Classy!

Pointing out something makes me a troll? That's news to me. Also, I don't remember you writing "quite" as *QUITE* to draw attention to it.

Anyways.. Whatever suits you. It's a free plugin, so no harm done i guess.
Last edited by sunny_j on Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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realmarco wrote:Ma AU version please
Sorry, I forgot to say that it's Synthmaker based, so no mac version ATM...
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sunny_j wrote:
Madbee wrote:OK OK troll-man
Classy!

Pointing out something makes me a troll? That's news to me. Also, I don't remember you writing "quite" as *QUITE* to draw attention to it.

Anyways.. Whatever suits you. It's a free plugin, so no harm done i guess.
Well, just to end up with that because i'm really not a violent guy normally.
Sorry to being a bit agressive
I'd just like to say to you that when you take a lot of time and energy to create something, when you make the choice of sharing it with people asking nothing (but just a bit of respect) in return and try to explain the concept of your work (in this case my first plugin so maybe I wasn't really clear in my explainations, I'm french too, which doesn't help), then you're really not prepared to see people saying that you're just a liar, without any explanation. I'm totally OK to receive comments (that's one of the reasons why I'm posting here). In fact, it's just a mater of HOW the things are said...
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Madbee wrote:...then you're really not prepared to see people saying that you're just a liar, without any explanation.
Well, this is the internet after all...
"You don’t expect much beyond a gaping, misspelled void when you stare into the cold dark place that is Internet comments."

---Salon on internet trolls attacking Cleveland kidnapping victim Amanda Berry
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A.M. Gold wrote:
Madbee wrote:...then you're really not prepared to see people saying that you're just a liar, without any explanation.
Well, this is the internet after all...

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