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Bomb Factory Plug-ins Guide 42
Tips and Tricks
Twelve O’Click
Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac) any
knob to reset it to its unity position.
“Q” and A
You may wonder why the Pultec EQP-1A has
separate knobs for boost and cut. The short an-
swer is that they connect to different circuitry in
the unit.
You can use the “extra” knob to your advantage.
Because the filters are not phase perfect, a Boost
setting of 3 and an Atten setting of 3 can make a
huge difference, even though a frequency plot
wouldn’t show much difference in tone. You’re
hearing the phase shift, not the tone shift.
Our ears of very sensitive to phase, and using the
two knobs together, you can adjust phase at the
low end while also making tonal adjustments.
On the high end, you can set Boost to 10k and
Atten to 10k, then adjust Boost and Atten simul-
taneously. However, because Boost is a peak
equalizer and Atten is a shelving equalizer, the
results are much different, and you don’t get in-
dependent control of phase.
“Q” and Boost
In the high frequency boost section, the Band-
width and Boost controls affect one another.
This is different from modern equalizers, where
adjusting Q typically doesn’t affect the amount
of equalization applied.
Use caution, because the Sharp bandwidth set-
ting results in up to 10 dB higher output than
Broad bandwidth at maximum Boost, just like
on the original. But don’t feel like you’re getting
cheated. Here at Bomb Factory, we consider any-
thing that encourages very careful and infre-
quent use of peaky boosts to be a Very Good
Thing.
Pultec EQH-2
(TDM, RTAS, and AudioSuite)
The Pultec EQH-2 is a program equalizer similar
to the Pultec EQP-1A. It is designed to provide
smooth equalization across final mixes or indi-
vidual tracks.
How Pultec EQH-2 Works
The Pultec EQH-2 offers three equalization sec-
tions: low frequency boost and attenuation,
midrange boost only, and 10k attenuation. Like
its EQP-1A sibling, it features high-quality trans-
formers and a tube gain stage. But unlike the
EQP-1A, the tube stage in the EQH-2 is a push-
pull design. As a result, the EQH-2 offers a beef-
ier tone.
Pultec EQH-2