EQ Rangers Analog Code
®
Plug-ins
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Introduction
The Analog Code
®
For more than two decades, SPL of Germany is well-known as man-
ufacturer of handmade analog hardware processors. Innovations
like the Vitalizer
™
and Transient Designer
™
are accompanied by a
complete analog range from frontend to backend and culminate in
the Mastering Series with exemplary specs thanks to SPL’s propri-
etary 120 V rails technology.
While SPL’s hardware has been fascinating audio professionals
from home studio owners to mastering engineers in the world’s
most famous facilities, there has been a continuing and ever grow-
ing demand for digital (DAW) users to be able to enjoy this technol-
ogy.
Our software design team has managed to transfer the class and
excellence of our analog processors into the digital domain. Latest
methods for high-precision modeling of our analog circuit designs
now give us results beyond a pure mathematical approach. The
digital products are so amazingly close to their analog equivalents
that we call them the Analog Code plug-ins.
EQ Rangers
The EQ Rangers plug-in is modeled from the SPL RackPack Ranger
EQ modules. These EQ modules are specialized to specific fre-
quency ranges and combine the unique sound results of passive
fiters with a graphic EQ interface.
The concept of the SPL EQ Rangers plug-ins is characterized by two
decisive features that separate them from traditional designs:
First there is the basic idea of specialized modules for typical
instrument or vocal ranges. In contrast to static graphical EQs with
always the same center frequencies in repeating octave distances,
the Ranger EQ modules are much better suited to work with specific
instruments and their peculiarities—and only different frequency
ranges do allow to effectively separate instruments in a mix. >
