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Yamaoka86 · Post by **Yamaoka86** » Sun Dec 28, 2025 10:38 pm

UAD Manley massive passive

Reverend Rhythm · Post by **Reverend Rhythm** » Sun Dec 28, 2025 11:34 pm

jamcat wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 7:54 am Mike at Creative Sauce addressed pretty much everything we've discussed here. YouTube suggested this to me, so I think it's reading my posts. ( Google owns YouTube.)

Very well done!

ATsoundstorm · Post by **ATsoundstorm** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 1:26 am

Nomad Factory Pulse-Tech v2. Oldie, but goldie.

Igro · Post by **Igro** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 6:26 am

jamcat wrote: Sat Dec 13, 2025 5:27 pm Universal Audio is giving away the Pultec Passive EQ Collection for free right now with the code: HOLIDAYFREEBIE

https://www.uaudio.com/products/pultec- ... tion-promo

No wonder. If there was a top 10 most aliasing plugins, that would be the first.

Najimad · Post by **Najimad** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 6:42 am

Igro wrote: Tue Jan 13, 2026 6:26 am
jamcat wrote: Sat Dec 13, 2025 5:27 pm Universal Audio is giving away the Pultec Passive EQ Collection for free right now with the code: HOLIDAYFREEBIE

https://www.uaudio.com/products/pultec- ... tion-promo
No wonder. If there was a top 10 most aliasing plugins, that would the the first.

UA Pultec I wouldn't recommend either, so much better alternatives. I grnerally don't consider aliasing as a big issue, but this one is definitetely too much aliasing. Why do they do that? Can't they behave?!

9headshydra · Post by **9headshydra** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 10:54 am

Najimad wrote: Tue Jan 13, 2026 6:42 am UA Pultec I wouldn't recommend either, so much better alternatives. I grnerally don't consider aliasing as a big issue, but this one is definitetely too much aliasing. Why do they do that? Can't they behave?!

Why ? it's easy to understand :

it's only appears with some peoples, because even UA need love, and peoples who hate them receive plugins from them that produce big aliasing issues

Nug Wrangler · Post by **Nug Wrangler** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 1:09 pm

Consint Pult EQ

prene · Post by **prene** » Wed Jan 14, 2026 6:35 pm

Purple for me itb.

Tim P if I need more flavors

I have tried my UAD ones and it’s bleh.

But I also own 6 pultec HW.

El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Wed Jan 14, 2026 6:46 pm

Pult EQ is a free and open source Pultec style tube EQ VST3 plugin (64bit) for Linux and Windows. Pult EQ is not made for fine detailed work, but for adding mojo and sound coloration. You can boost the lows, the highs and the mids. You can saturate your sound or, of course, do the “Pultec trick”. The EQ features stereo and mid/side processing and the saturation comes with automatic gain compensation and up to 16 times oversampling.

Pult EQ is based on the Pultec EQ example of the Wave Digital Filter model library in FAUST and on the airwindows Tube2 saturation.

https://www.consint.net/posts/pulteq/

Tubeman · Post by **Tubeman** » Thu Jan 15, 2026 4:56 pm

9headshydra wrote: Tue Jan 13, 2026 10:54 am
Najimad wrote: Tue Jan 13, 2026 6:42 am UA Pultec I wouldn't recommend either, so much better alternatives. I grnerally don't consider aliasing as a big issue, but this one is definitetely too much aliasing. Why do they do that? Can't they behave?!
Why ? it's easy to understand :

it's only appears with some peoples, because even UA need love, and peoples who hate them receive plugins from them that produce big aliasing issues

How do you check this aliasing you're hearing?

Scarlet Pumpernickel · Thu Jan 15, 2026 6:43 pm

Ok, I loaded UADx EQP-1a in the Plugin-Doctor and with the 0dB signal at 20kHz coming in (which is an insane level BTW) anything that could resemble aliasing is less than -140dB - what are we talking about here?

BUT, then I loaded UADx EQP-MEQ-5 and with the same signal coming in the aliasing is more obvious and reaches -113dB - that is not atrocious IMO, but not good either and raises questions.

EDIT: Submitted a bug report - don't have high hopes.

b4serenity · Post by **b4serenity** » Thu Jan 15, 2026 7:20 pm

Like you said that's a strong signal for 20Khz. Can you actually hear that at -113 or -140db?

b4serenity · Post by **b4serenity** » Thu Jan 15, 2026 7:21 pm

Like you said that's a strong signal for 20Khz. Can you actually hear that at -113 or -140db? Im not that knowledgable on Aliasing, just trying to learn

Scarlet Pumpernickel · Thu Jan 15, 2026 7:50 pm

b4serenity wrote: Thu Jan 15, 2026 7:21 pm Like you said that's a strong signal for 20Khz. Can you actually hear that at -113 or -140db? Im not that knowledgable on Aliasing, just trying to learn

Well, that depends on the levels, you're listening at, but for a "normal" human to be able to hear -143dB FS, the levels should be close to the pain threshold (and aliasing would be the least of their problems at that point).
With -113dB FS, I can envision a situation with multiple stages of compression "downstream" resulting in making it audible. Personally, I almost never compress that much.
My PERSONAL rule of thumb is -130dB FS for distortion is low enough, not to worry about it.

Tubeman · Post by **Tubeman** » Thu Jan 15, 2026 8:27 pm

Igro wrote: Tue Jan 13, 2026 6:26 am
jamcat wrote: Sat Dec 13, 2025 5:27 pm Universal Audio is giving away the Pultec Passive EQ Collection for free right now with the code: HOLIDAYFREEBIE

https://www.uaudio.com/products/pultec- ... tion-promo
No wonder. If there was a top 10 most aliasing plugins, that would be the first.

Can you show proof of this aliasing you're talking about?

Which Pultec do you prefer?