Black Q - V3
"Smooth Tubes" EQUALIZER
Build 1.5
VST3 · AU · AAX
OSX · WIN
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The Philosophy behind Smooth Tube EQ
At Tone Empire we are obsessed with "Sound"
We recently brought a vintage unit to life by building the hardware version over 6 months, changing tubes, transformers and signal paths.
In this quest, we build a "Golden Unit" with "Super Powers" :)
We had the idea then to model this circuit with 2 paths involving sowter and lundahl transformers and some choices of vintage valves.
The result was simply "Stunning"
Then combining this with a versatile EQ Design, we developed a monster Tube EQ in the DSP world, a kind of hybrid with a sound going from "Clean and Silky" to full-on "Crunchy" sounding saturations.
TYPE A gives you a great "FULL" sound including a "Big" Low end and TYPE B gives you a crunchier mid/high enhanced sound. These choices make it possible to use this eq on a variety of sound materials from Drums to vocals, Piano, string instruments, Bass, Synths and as a mastering unit itself.
The next part was to make this plugin as processor efficient as possible so it could be used as a tracking plugin with very low latency and also allow one to run multiple instances of it effortlessly.
In Black Q Version 2, we have also introduced "OVERSAMPLING", now it has up to 8x oversampling option if your system can take that CPU LOAD, Select your oversampling choice to get the more "ANALOG" Sound.
We are now very keen to see our customer's reactions to Black Q V2!
Demos & Sound Examples
What Producers Say
"Black Q is Dripping with Vintage analog tube tone !!! A wonderful EQ with that vintage vibe from back in the day. It just adds so much color & character to anything i put thru it with a nice selection of start-up presets for Mastering, Drums, Gtr's, Pno's, Vocals, Synth's, etc.... its a steal at this price !! tone-empire once again hits it outta the park !! Love it !!!!!"
"Excellent big sound!"
"i bought this eq. its really amazing"
"Wow,...very nice. Really liked it on the individual elements of your mix, especially the drums and vocals. The price is very good too -- I'll be getting this one."
"sweet and crispy man vocals and hi hats get that cool sizzle, nice."
"I love the GUI, special that red knob. I wanna eat it or something."
Technical Specifications
System Requirements
Plugin Formats: VST3, AU, AAX (64-bit host)
Operating Systems:
Windows 10 or later
OSX Mojave or later
Processors:
Apple Silicon / Intel i5 or later / AMD Athlon 64 or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM / 300 MB HD
DAW Compatibility
MAC OSX:
Logic Pro, Ableton Live 11+, Pro Tools 12, FL Studio, Cubase, Presonus Studio One, Reaper
WINDOWS:
Ableton Live 11, Pro Tools 12, FL Studio, Cubase, Bitwig, Presonus Studio One, Reaper
Installation
OSX:
Download the BlackQ-V3.pkg file and click open
Follow the instructions to install the plug-in(s)
Windows:
Run BlackQ-V3.exe
Follow the instructions to install the plug-in(s)
