Overloud GEM EQ550
American Equalizer Plugin
Proportional Q American Equalizer
Overloud EQ550 is modeled after a renowned American EQ created with custom op-amps.
- Hyper-realistic simulation of the original Proportional Q equalizer, thanks to the 4th generation DSP technology
- 5 bands eq: 2 shelving/peaking, 2 peaking, 1 bandpass
- Individual band Cue
- Continuous frequency selection
- Simulation of all transformers in the original unit
- Low CPU usage: more than 1500 instances on a Macbook Pro Retina
- Multilevel undo-redo
- A/B Comparison
- Lots of presets designed in real mixing sessions
- Scribble Strips: take notes anywhere on the plugin panel
Band Cue
The Cue button allows you to hear the part of the frequency spectrum that is being affected by that band.
Continuous Frequency Selection
While the original hardware has preset frequencies only, the EQ550 allows you to select all the intermediate frequencies.
Additional Mid Band
While the original hardware has one Mid band only, we added a second band for increased flexibility.
Pushing the Emulation Forward
EQ550 emulates one of the most desired EQ modules in the history of recording and mixing.
It has a Proportional-Q design, meaning that the bandwidth of the filters becomes narrow when the gain of the filter increases. For low gain settings, the EQ delivers a smoother tone: its character becomes more and more aggressive when the bands gain band is raised. This design makes the EQ550 unique.
EQ550 exactly reproduces the original frequency response even in the highest-end of the spectrum, near the Nyquist frequency, which is the point where most of the digital simulations fail. Thanks to a proprietary DSP technology, Overloud has been able to achieve this result with no phase distortion and without using oversampling.
System Requirements
Mac
EQ550 is available as Audio Unit, VST, AAX32 (ProTools 10.3.5 and above), AAX64 (ProTools 11 and 12) plugins, as well as a standalone application.
Both 32bit and 64bit are natively supported.
You can authorize EQ550 on up to three computers that you own and one USB stick with a simple one-click software procedure (no hardware key needed).
- CPU: Intel Core i3 1.4GHz or better
- RAM: 4GB minimum
- Screen Resolution: 1280x800 minimum
- OS: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and above are supported.
EQ550 is available as VST, AAX32 (ProTools 10.3.5 and above), AAX64 (ProTools 11 and 12) plugins, as well as a standalone application.
32bit and 64bit are natively supported.
You can authorize EQ550 on up to three computers that you own and one USB stick with a simple one-click software procedure (no hardware key needed).
- CPU: Intel Core i3 1.4GHz or better
- RAM: 4GB minimum
- Screen Resolution: 1280x800 minimum
- OS: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 are supported.
Supported DAWs
- Pro Tools 10.3.5 and above (Mac & Windows)
- Logic Pro 9 and above (Mac only)
- Cubase 6 and above (Mac & Windows
- Ableton Live 6 and above (Mac & Windows)
- Digital Performer 7 and above (Mac & Windows)
- Nuendo 5 and above (Mac & Windows)
- MainStage 2 and above (Mac only)
- Garage Band 10 and above (Mac only)
- Final Cut Pro X and above (Mac only)
- Studio One 1 and above (Mac & Windows)
- Reaper (Mac & Windows)
- Sonar X3 and Platinum (Windows only)
System Requirements
- MacOS 10.9 Mavericks and above
- Windows 10 and above (32 and 64-bit)
- Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
- 4GB RAM or more
- 1280x800 screen resolution or higher
- Includes 3 activations per license
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