Universal Audio UAD Plug-Ins ver.7.5 - Manual (Page 386)

UAD Powered Plug-Ins Manual - 386 - Chapter 39: Pultec Passive EQ Collection
Pultec Plug-In Family
The complete Pultec family is comprised of five individual plug-ins, as seen on
the previous page. Each variation has its own unique sonic characteristics.
Pultec Passive
EQ Collection
The Pultec Passive EQ Collection (introduced in UAD v7.1) provides access to
three historical and highly coveted revisions in the Pultec product line.
The plug-ins in the Pultec Passive EQ Collection benefit from the additional
processing power afforded by the UAD-2, plus more than 10 years of UA’s
evolving sophistication designing plug-ins. While the original EQP-1A Legacy
and Pultec-Pro Legacy plug-ins remain an excellent rendition of the hardware,
the plug-ins in the newer Pultec Passive EQ Collection add the transformer and
complex tube amplifier nonlinearities for even more authenticity. The sophis-
ticated modeling technology used in the newer plug-in collection captures all
of these tone-enhancing characteristics.
Pultec EQP-1A
Used on a myriad of recordings from the 1950’s to today, the three-band,
tube-amplified EQP-1A Program Equalizer has long been a studio staple of re-
cording and mix engineers for its ability to bring out individual frequency
ranges without significantly altering neighboring frequencies. This unit is
equally famous for its ability to dial in seemingly dangerous amounts of boost
and famously smooth-as-silk vintage tone. The EQP-1A is also known as the
quintessential “magic” studio piece that makes audio simply sound better just
by passing through it.
Pultec MEQ-5
The Pultec MEQ-5 Mid-Range Equalizer is the richly colorful tube-amplified
companion piece to the EQP-1A. With two bands of midrange boost and one
band of midrange dip, the MEQ-5 is designed to enhance and control the
“power region” where sound energy is often concentrated, covering the finer
tone requirements in the Pultec Collection with an abundance of band overlap
and filter interaction.
Pultec HLF-3C
The HLF-3C completes the Pultec Passive EQ Collection. This plug-in has
12 dB per octave low and high cut filters, providing broad retro-tonal sculpt-
ing or bygone-era special effects, without the inconvenience of insertion loss
found with the unamplified passive hardware.