Plugin Alliance have announced the early access availability of Soma EQ by Knif Audio. Subscribers to the MIX & MASTER and MEGA Bundle users have unlimited access as of today. If you haven’t subscribed to one of the bundle plans yet you can still grab a FREE 14-day trial. The sale for this new plugin starts on February 1.
A passive tube EQ that’s clean and precise – even for modern mastering
Passive tube EQs have long been praised for offering tremendous color and warmth. Their broad boosts and cuts and inherent saturation makes them a favorite option for overall tonal shaping. Knif Audio’s boutique Soma EQ updates the passive tube EQ approach by offering a cleaner, more flexible tone, as well as more precise EQ adjustments to meet the demands of contemporary mastering engineers.
The first passive tube EQ with “Real Q Adjustment” to take the guesswork out of EQ
Despite their wonderful sound, old school passive EQs have their shortcomings as well. Changing the bandwidth control on a conventional passive EQ will cause you to inadvertabtly increase or reduce the amount of boost or cut you are applying, leading to unexpected changes in your EQ curve. The Soma EQ finally solves this problem by adding “Real Q Adjustment”. A first in the world of passive tube EQs, it allows for much more predictability and precision than any other EQ of its type.
Sophisticated and flexible color for discerning ears
While classic passive tube EQs like the Pultec and Massive Passive are celebrated for their warmth, saturation and character, there is such a thing as “too much of a good thing”. Sometimes the tone of these beautiful EQs can be excessive for a given track, forcing a mastering engineer to choose a totally different type of tool for the task. The Soma EQ offers a slightly cleaner and more subtle tone by default, with the option to drive it harder for additional warmth, making it one of the most adaptable processors of its kind.
Features include:
- An exacting model of the original Knif Audio design, made in close cooperation with boutique analog hardware designer, Jonte Knif
- Emulates the natural warmth of tubes and transformers, with fully variable saturation thanks to independent controls for headroom, input and output drive
- “Real Q Adjustment” makes Soma the most precise passive tube EQ on the market
- Stepped controls perfect for mastering applications
- TMT – Brainworx´ patented “Tolerance Modeling Technology” (US Patent No. 10,725,727)
- Including Mid/Side processing, Mono Maker & Stereo Width control
- Auto Listen feature to hear your EQ changes in isolation
- Selectable 6dB/oct & 12dB/oct slope high pass filters
- Employs Brainworx´ most advanced modeling yet to capture the complexity of this unique circuit design
- Loaded with plenty (90+) of useful presets from renowned mastering engineers
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