Wholegrain Digital Systems LLC announces the availability of a new instructional video on applications of the DynPEQ family of plugins. The video, recorded at a product clinic held at Technicolor Sound Services in January, features Nathaniel Kunkel and Alan Meyerson. The two award-winning engineers discuss how DynPEQ has found its way into their workflows.
"The plugin documentation and company website contains detailed descriptions of the DynPEQ plugins and dynamic parametric equalization in general, " says Wholegrain president Duane Wise. "We know that even though the processing opens up a large space of possibilities, it is understandable for people to say, 'Yes, but what does it do?' To that end, the pro audio community has been discovering many applications for which DynPEQ is well-suited and a few for which DynPEQ is uniquely suited. We hope this video will be a seed that yields more DynPEQ application discoveries."
The 43 1/2-minute video can be found at www.wholegrain-ds.com/instruction/video-4-applications. For a limited time, the video has also been posted on the company home page, www.wholegrain-ds.com.
About DynPEQ
Bundled with the soundBlade mastering workstation since 2007, the DynPEQ family has been available for Pro Tools AAX/HDX since version 1.3. The DynPEQ plugins currently have two variants. Trio DynPEQ is a three-band dynamic parametric equalizer configured as a single-channel insert for input processing. Quartet DynPEQ is a four-band dynamic parametric equalizer with support for multi-channel stems and an analog peak limiter for mastering applications.
The heart of DynPEQ is a traditional parametric equalizer. Center/cutoff frequency and Q define the band to apply dynamics--there are no fixed bands or crossover frequencies. The principles used in finding parametric EQ bands intuitively extend for band dynamics.
DynPEQ avoids STFT granularity through traditional time-domain parametric EQ and dynamics. It calculates the total RMS level of the sidechain for a fast and smooth control signal--there is no need to extend release time.
The DynPEQ design allows for detailed and robust control of the audio spectrum, prompting Darwin Grosse to write the following in the June 2017 issue of Recording Magazine. "Perhaps the aspect that has me most interested in using this product is the way it makes me think about my work--while it is clearly both an EQ and a compressor/expander, it is viable to approach it like a super-EQ."
The DynPEQ plugins are compatible with Pro Tools AAX/HDX from version 10 forwards. The plugins are also compatible with Audio Unit workstations. The plugins run on an Intel Mac running Mac OS X version 10.6 forwards.
Find Quartet DynPEQ (with AAX DSP) and Trio DynPEQ (with AAX DSP) in the KVR Marketplace
