MP-EQ

Pulsar MP-EQ (formerly Pulsar Massive) is an emulation of a legendary analog EQ found in almost every mastering studio worldwide. Designed as a synthesis of the best passive equalizers of the past 70 years, its fully parallel topology offers a unique and musical frequency response compared to digital EQs with the same settings. Because of this design, the bands naturally interact, producing a more musical overall response.

Its entirely passive circuit, featuring custom hand-wound inductors, tubes, and transformers, delivers creamy highs, balanced mids, and organic warmth through magnetic saturation. Pulsar MP-EQ faithfully recreates every sonic detail of the original hardware while adding modern features like visual curve editing, drive control, linear phase mode, or auto-gain:

• Modern workflow: curve editor, spectrum analyzer, drive & auto-gain.
• Authentic analog character from tubes, transformers & inductors.
• Optional Linear Phase mode for perfect temporal alignment of all frequencies.

Improving on a Classic

Pulsar MP-EQ comes with a complete on-screen curve editor and spectrum analyzer. This best-of-both-world approach gives an accurate overview of your EQ changes while highlighting the singular behaviors of the original unit. The easy-to-use graphic interface allows a fast and radical workflow for mixing applications.

Analog Drive and Harmonic Character

The Drive control allows usage of the plugin at internal levels where the analog vibe of the original unit is unusual and musical. Pulsar Massive's accurate models of transformers, tubes, and inductors produce large amounts of harmonics and non-linearities. All coupled together, these are responsible for the subtle, dynamic and program-dependent low-end compression beloved by generations of sound engineers.

True Parallel EQ Architecture

Pulsar MP-EQ is a component-accurate model of the original unit, perfectly emulating its parallel EQ design and the unique sound-sculpting feeling. With parallel EQ, band gains don't accumulate as in most other EQs, but rather recombine to produce natural-sounding corrections. The Pultec-like low-shelf filters allow a generous and tight low end, even at extreme boost settings. The high-shelf filters provide a pristine top end and air without harshness.

Linear Phase Correction

In most EQ emulations, each frequency experiences a different phase shift, a natural result of analog circuit behavior. Pulsar MP-EQ introduces, for the first time in an audio plugin, a process that optionally realigns all frequencies after the EQ stage, transforming an analog-style EQ into a true linear-phase EQ.

The result is pristine transient accuracy, free from the temporal smearing that traditional EQs can introduce.

In the low end, this phase correction restores the clarity and punch often lost when fundamentals and harmonics drift out of sync, preventing that familiar "muddy" or "bloated" bass.

For EDM producers, preserving the exact waveform of synthesizers is particularly important, because phase rotations can alter the signal's peak-to-RMS ratio, and therefore influence cascaded dynamics processors.

Additionally, during M/S processing, Pulsar MP-EQ eliminates the asymmetrical artifacts that typically occur around a band's center frequency when the Mid and Side channels are recombined in traditional analog-style EQs.

Designed for Modern Production

Pulsar MP-EQ takes full advantage of modern CPUs to do more with less. Despite the tremendous amount of complexity in the audio algorithms you'll be able to use a large number of instances. The resizable interface and wise choice of modern features will make Pulsar Massive your go-to color-EQ.