What is your favorite EQ this year?

Love this, and your videos. This is the spiritual successor to my beloved Air EQ (I wrote the manual for that). To have the EQ they used on Thriller. Yum!

It would by interesting to listen to TDR Nova in comparison, because it is also a parallel EQ. There is even an EQ out there where can be switched between serial and parallel: IIEQ from DDMF.

The TDR Nova dynamic EQ (which can be operated in non-dynamic mode) also does parallel EQ (the bands are not in series).

@White Noise Studio Just a tip when analyzing aliasing in Plugin Dr, you'll want to make sure the plugin output isn't clipping, so lower the gain of the signal feeding it from PD and also 400Hz won't show you aliasing, you need to be up closer to nyquist to see the aliasing harmonics bouncing back down.

Fabfilter and pulsar audio are pretty much my top brands for digital eqs and compresors

The Pulsar Audio 8200 sits on my 2 bus, running mid side. Adding small corrections with it. Added features like De-esser, tilt, sub, air, and the M/S ability make it great for me. It expands the usefulness. I have almost every Pulsar Audio plug-in, and they've not let me down in quality. I did have to put Mu on the shelf as I got the UAD Manley Vari-Mu on sale.

Eiosis AirEQ Premium has the option to label frequency however it looks like Pulsar 8200 is more affordable, better looking and has more functionalities. I already own two of their plugins and maybe this will be the third 🤞

Sorry but they need take it beyond the hardware and offer things like steeper cut filters and frequency solo, especially for 150 bucks. The analog style interface with every knob at a glance would actually make it a great every day EQ but it needs more features.

Just bought Kirchoff Eq last week, no more room at the Inn for this fella

🍀🎶 Every few days a new "Non plus ultra" plugin comes onto the market along with a "nicely laid out" KZfaq tutorial. Most of us, for whom home recording is "just" a very committed hobby, easily fall into the belief that this or that new "super plugin" will take our music or production to another level. But that works basically also with the stock plugins of Cubase Pro. I suspect that most users underestimate Cubase Pro plugins or, lacking the necessary know-how, do not know how to use these plugins "correctly". But hope for this through the plugins from third parties. I now see it with a "healthy distance". Quite apart from that: In no time at all you have 500 or more plugins on your SSD - and which plugins do you really use?! Maybe a tenth. Or? 😅

🧐 One would not think that EQ plug-ins would still be “a thing” anymore, yet somehow developers are indeed finding a way to create things that actually justify the effort. Fascinating. 🤷‍♂️

I wouldn't say that this EQ has more detail/focus. If you look under the hood you will see that this plugin has a natural hi pass cut already set in the algorithm at around 20hz. This is a hard-coded cut therefore it gives the illusion that it is sharper in detail/focus. The other EQs are leaving simply leaving the low-end untouched which is fooling our perception of the high-end. Much respect though because it would take some level of great ears to notice the difference in the first place. I dare say, that if you had matches the soft hi pass filter along with the Bell EQ curves for your illustration, the EQs would fairly sound more or less the same (regarding detail/focus). In my honest opinion, for specific reasons), I think it's the perfect EQ for bass synth or bass guitar tracks (if you are looking for a cleaner sound). It's pretty amazing as a cleaner all-arounder mono EQ where you would be cutting the lows anyway.

Really nice comparison !

Good review man

Great stuff - thanks for this one... subscribed, thought I had before...!

$59 loyalty offer yeah it is worth it. SMASHER!

kirchhoff is the King 🕺💃

The most important compare Is with Amek 250 and 200, birn as clone of gml8200 and its hw clone by Sontec

How about the cpu usage?

I love that song push me away what remix is this one?

@White Noise Studio how did you match the settings between each EQ? Was it by values only or did you match the curves and gain in Plugin Dr?

6:49 Eiosis Air Eq

Great plugin 🙂

On vocals , i use Plugin alliance maag eq4. Do you say this one is better ?

bro, you could compare it with TDR Nova but you chose to compare it with serial EQ. 😥

AirEQ has had that type in your own band names feature years ago.

The other KZfaqr compared pulsar 8200 vs. AA Green 4 and Green 4 won in public opinion. That made me think twice before buying this.

I want some new Fx plugins

Hey man please I beg u make a tutorial on the exact vocal mixing chain used in this video. I can’t explain u this is that electronic sound That Im trying to achieve from years but can’t. 🙏

Its not the tool its your ear !

Wow, Pulsar really have gone all out and paid a lot of content creators/youtubes to do paid promo's on launch of their new plugin. Try the plugins, don't take any paid youtubers word for anything. They often will not disclose that it's a paid review/content video.

i dont think this is a good aproach for a comparisson, you shouldn't try to match the settings, instead you should try to match the eq curves or do it by ear and find if you can match the sound.

Meh. ProQ 3 is still king.

I heard no difference between proq3 and 8200.