Mäag Audio EQ4 MS

Mäag Audio EQ4 MS

Control Mäag Audio’s flagship EQ and its AIR BAND® like never before

Overview

The Mäag EQ4M™ is a 6-band dual-channel mastering equalizer and the foundation of the Mäag EQ4-MS, which, in addition to the hardware features, offers mid/side processing, cut filters, a soft limiter designed by Mäag Audio, and extended functionality utilizing Brainworx's established developments, such as Tolerance Modeling Technology. The unique design of the EQ4 provides unparalleled transparency and top-end presence while maintaining the true natural sound behind the signal or mix. The EQ4-MS enhances its flexibility by allowing the selection between two optional center frequencies and bell characteristics in the lower bands.

Dual Channel

This true dual-channel processor offers optional mid/side processing, enabling stunning results by shaping the side signal's low midrange and adding AIR Band mojo, widening the soundstage. The Mäag Audio EQ4 MS plugin is Brainworx's latest development based on Cliff Mäag's filter design, including the impressive Air Band in a two-channel configuration, offering more options than ever before. Brainworx has carefully added unique features from the Mäag product line to the EQ4M, achieving maximum accurate stereo and MS processing without losing any of the predecessor's character.

Enhancements

Since the launch of the first Mäag EQ4 plugin in 2016, Brainworx has received valuable feature requests and implemented them in the EQ4 MS to enhance users' workflows. The sweepable AIR BAND® has set a standard for shiny and open high-end in both the analog and digital domains. As with the EQ4M studio hardware, the plugin allows users to select from the same six Air Band frequencies. The AIR BAND® can be heard on countless top hits mixed by renowned engineers such as David Reitzas, Dylan Dresdow, and Dave Pensado, among many others.

Mid/Side

Introducing MS-technology into equalization-processes always brings beneficial experience with the resulting product as troubling frequencies can be pushed out of focus while pulling hidden details in the stereo field to the front without concentrating that range in the center of the acoustic field. The former version of Maag EQ4 is not able to do this. In addition useful tools Brainworx have brought up since the first version of EQ4 was released are implemented to enrich the user experience and handle much more complex scenarios then v1 was capable of.

Features

• Modeled exactly after the original Mäag Audio design, schematics and hardware in very close cooperation with Mäag Audio.
• Scalable Ul I/O, Correlation and Balance-Metering
• Plugin-Only Features:
  • Additional center frequencies for all bell filters.
  • Additional Q-factor for all bell filters.
  • Auto Output Gain Stereo and M/S Processing
  • Mono-Maker and Stereo Width
  • Variable THD Soft Clip
  • Additional high and low pass fliters
  • Parameter Link
  • Brainworx's TMT inside: Tolerance Modeling Technology (US Patent No. 10,725,727) simulates 20 channel-to-channel variances in electronic components for the most realistic analog sound in digital recreation of analog characteristics

System Requirements

Mac

• macOS 11+
• Intel, or Apple Silicon 

PC

• Windows 10+
• x64-compatible CPU

AAX DSP, AAX Native, AU, AAX AudioSuite, VST2, VST3