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68 | PASSIVE EQUALIZER
Buying Recommendations
If you like the sound of the Passive Equalizer and
would like to get your hands on the real stuff (which
is an excellently built and beautifully crafted unit),
you should look for a Neumann PEV 930-00 con-
sole equalizer. It’s a fantastic sounding unit.
All product names used are trademarks
of their respective owners, and in no
way constitutes an association or affili-
ation with Softube. The Neumann and PEV
trademarks are solely used to identify
the products whose sound was studied
during the sound modeling development
of the Passive-Active Pack. Neumann® is a
registered trademark of Georg Neumann
GmbH.
Credits
Niklas Odelholm – modeling and graphics design.
Torsten Gatu – concept. Oscar Öberg – frame-
work programming. Arvid Rosén – framework
programming. Ulf Ekelöf – graphics rendering.
Thanks to Stefan Fandén and the crew at Deluxe
Music for letting us borrow the gear!
than that but that’s too techni-
cal to put in a user’s guide...
Presence (Gain
Control)
Use this to set the gain of the
presence circuit in 2 dB steps
(from 0 to +8 dB)
Presence (Frequency
Selector)
Set the center frequency of the
presence circuit (0.7, 1, 1.4, 2,
2.8, 4 and 5.6 kHz). The center
frequency and gain have a ten-
dency to move if you increase
the High knob...
High Cut/Boost
Boost or cut the high frequen-
cies. Just like the Low knob,
this is more of a shelving type
filter than a bell type. Boost-
ing the High will change the
character of the Presence.
Output
Output volume. Goes from
nothing to +12 dB. At the 12
o’clock position, it’s set at 0
dB, and going clock wise will
increase the output volume by
+2 dB for each mark.
The Presence filter is widest at low frequency settings (0.7
kHz) while getting sharper at higher settings (5.6 kHz).
The 0.7 kHz setting is excellent for getting a fat snare
drum sound.