Eventide Refines Audio Equalization Possibilities with SplitEQ

Eventide has released SplitEQ, an advanced equalization plug-in featuring a new Structural Split patented technology. At first glance, it’s a parametric EQ with 8-bands of filters, but the Structural Split engine divides the incoming audio into separate Transient and Tonal streams that feed the 8 bands. This approach makes common EQ problems easy to solve — even in a complex mix.

In this reference article, published by audioXpress in 2008, Joe D’Appolito shares his experiments with loudspeaker evaluation. In the two parts of this article, D’Appolito tries to answer the question: “Of all the measurements available to the designer, which ones are the best predictors of listener preference?" In over 30 years of designing loudspeakers, I have found the following measurements taken as a group provide the strongest predictor of loudspeaker preference available to us today,” he states.

Everyone else’s doing it, so why shouldn’t an historic brand like dbx do it as well? With the new model 676 Tube Mic Pre Channel Strip, HARMAN’s dbx offers a Class A vacuum tube-based microphone preamplifier combined with its classic compressor/limiter designs and dynamics processing in a vintage-style solution.

The new Lectrosonics processors are designed to be gateways to and from Dante networks, providing signal processing and routing with automatic mixers as well as speaker management DSP functions. Both units feature delay, EQ filters and dynamic processing on every input and output channel.

“Listen to your music, not to your headphones!” embodies the “spirit” for Focal’s new product entry. The Spirit Professional headphones are the direct result of Focal’s historical expertise in the high-performance transducer design, promising neutrality and transparency for total control. …