Two production hardware units and four design revisions later, Dangerous Music finally signed off on a plugin version of its BAX EQ. Acustica Audio handled the modeling, and the result carries an official license at £179.
The first unit went straight to the Acustica software team. Chris Muth and company President Marek Stycos then pitted the code against their hardware, hunting measurable gaps in response and filter behavior.
A second hardware unit followed, alongside measurement plots and a pair of Convert-AD+ and Convert-2 converters sent over to capture impulse responses. Nobody stopped tweaking until the original designers called it a match.
Extras arrived that the metal box never had. Mid-Side processing joins the stereo and dual-mono options, letting center and sides get shaped separately, and three views named Classic, Expanded, and Dual Mono handle the layout.
Phase-coherent cut filters pull competing frequencies out, Low Cut clears infrasonic rumble for headroom, and High Cut trims ultrasonic noise. An output knob covers gain staging. VST3, AU, and AAX run on Windows 10 and up, alongside macOS 10.15 or later.
The first unit went straight to the Acustica software team. Chris Muth and company President Marek Stycos then pitted the code against their hardware, hunting measurable gaps in response and filter behavior.
A second hardware unit followed, alongside measurement plots and a pair of Convert-AD+ and Convert-2 converters sent over to capture impulse responses. Nobody stopped tweaking until the original designers called it a match.
Extras arrived that the metal box never had. Mid-Side processing joins the stereo and dual-mono options, letting center and sides get shaped separately, and three views named Classic, Expanded, and Dual Mono handle the layout.
Phase-coherent cut filters pull competing frequencies out, Low Cut clears infrasonic rumble for headroom, and High Cut trims ultrasonic noise. An output knob covers gain staging. VST3, AU, and AAX run on Windows 10 and up, alongside macOS 10.15 or later.
