P440 Sweet Spot EQ
Overview
P440 Sweet Spot Mastering Equalizer audio plugin.
You have very likely heard words similar to the following uttered many times about mastering: “it makes the music come to life” or “it is the final polish that transitions into something breathtaking” or “It is like… magic!”. The wizardry lies in the hands of the practitioner of course, but surely, as all wizards wield an unassuming yet infinitely powerful device that is a conduit between their mystical knowledge and the physical world, so does the mastering engineer. To the wizard, it is the magic wand and to the mastering engineer, it is the equalizer.
Forget everything you have been taught about “High Passing” frequencies below 30Hz, and welcome to Sweet Tremor boosting infrasonic frequencies! Attenuate frequencies and you end up with a punchier and open sound! Boost frequencies and end up with sweet cotton candy all over your ears! Scream in horror when you check in Plugin Doctor the low shelf at 200 Hz or the high shelf at 2 kHz with a “stairway to heaven” graph, but then melt in your chair when you listen to it- like candy on a hot summer day. Nothing makes sense …visually but your ears tell you otherwise.
P440 Sweet Spot EQ will let you rethink what an audio equalizer can do. P440… your mystical magic wand.
Features
- Mastering Equalizer grade.
- Organic hardware-like feel & behavior.
- 3 Band mastering grade EQ combining fixed and proportional Q.
- New Tremor circuit.
- New Bias circuit.
- Innovative Gain Scale dial.
- Custom Shelving curves (boost & cut).
- LP & HP filters with resonance.
- Zero sample latency!
- Dual-mono behavior from within the plugin.
- All parameters are exposed to your DAW for automation.
- macOS: Silicon ready AU, AAX and VST3 formats.
- Windows: VST3 and AAX formats.
- Linux LV2 format coming soon!
Videos
Audio Examples
Artist Reviews
Scott Weiser (AKA Jackal & Hyde)
Lunar Lander is INCREDIBLE! Realistic BBD Delay behavior.
Scott is responsible for some of the most head strong electrocore bass-bangers such as Dark Star, Go Bang, Beyond, This is the Sound of Underground and Bad Robot.
Marc Codsi
Extremely lush melodic plate reverb emulation. I use it when I want to add character to a sound.
Marc Codsi is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and film composer.
Jérémie Regnier
I am stuck on Lunar Lander plate reverb 3- so much cream – Wow!
Composer, producer and performer.
Specification
Supported Plugin Formats
AU, VST3, AAX (Apple Silicon ready).
Supported Operating Systems
macOS 10.14+
Windows 10+
Mac
Apple RISC M chip and Intel CPU (Universal 2 Binary)
PC
x64-compatible CPU
System Requirements
Display resolution: 1440 × 900px or 1280 × 960px or higher
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Copy Protection
A one-time challenge & response over the internet. License works on up two separate machines.
Downloads
User Guides- Dark Mode
User Guides- Print Mode
For previously authorized computers
- Frequency Spectrum Analyzer added.
- Proper limiting of the LPF freq. slider depending on your DAW sample rate.
- P440 code updated for the JUCE 8 framework.
- P440 VST3 and AAX are now placed in a “Pulsar Modular” subfolder in the plugins directory, while AU stays in the general directory.
- Bug fix mouse hover for Fine Tune Hz.
- Studio One DAW fix for Bypass and OS delay compensation reporting.
- Saturation artifacts during fast knob movements.
- Updated user guides (Print and Dark mode).
- EQ band visualizer.
- Updated English user guide.
- Inverse proportional Q option per band.
- Smooth circuit for Mastering grade sonics.
- Fixed “Value Display Label”. Enlarged the size and modified the font.
- Fixed the initialization bug when loading the plugin without opening the GUI.
- Changing preset name from within the Preset Folder.
- Low & High Shelf attenuation.
- Scale for EQ bands.
- DAW crash with fast movement of EQ bands.
- Added Chinese and French user guides.
- Bug fixes.
- TIBO circuit.
- Added Italian, Japanese and Spanish user guides.
- Loading presets bug in Live and Studio One.
- The 3 EQ bands are more stable when automating.
- Smoothing of EQ band movement while audio playing- lessen clicking and digital noise.
- Official Release.
40-Day Free Demo
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With the deep and carefully designed features of this deceptively simple and most powerful device, audio sorcery is boundless. P440 provides the appropriate magic on the 2-bus, stems, or stereo mastering. With P440, Pulsar Modular continues its line of original audio designs, consistently creating plugins that equal or exceed the quality of hardware.
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The Ultimate Mastering EQ. Great for mixing with your ears and not your eyes. Every feature sounds great and is incredibly useful. A real tone machine for adding and balancing mixes!
The EQ points and curves are very musical and forgiving. Even with larger boosts or cuts, it’s difficult to make things sound harsh or unnatural.
I boldly state that the P440 encourages experimentation, as it took me more than half a year to fully comprehend its capabilities. The latest addition of the EQ band visualizer is amazing, although I wish it had a spectrum analyzer as well.
“Sweet Spot” focus: The plugin lives up to its name. There’s a certain “magic” to the way the EQ interacts with the audio, making it easy to find pleasing tonal balances.
One of the things I really enjoyed about this piece is that it is very simple to dial in a great sound. It doesn’t feel overwhelming and has just enough control to not be too simple. I’ve used this on vocal, instrument and drum buss to dial the mix in a bit and then I use it while mastering to give the overall mix a little more depth and detail.
C’est plus qu’un EQ, il apporte un beau son analogique, un peu comme un exciteur. Il est propre, neutre ou coloré, c’est au choix. Il apporte des basses fréquences organiques et les courbes sont bien pensées pour le mastering. Maintenant avec l’ajout de la visualisation des courbes, c’est superbe.
It would be easy for some, I suppose, to pass this off as “just another EQ” and an expensive one at that. Now, I’m not a professional audio engineer, just a keen amateur producer/engineer but I can tell this is no ordinary EQ. For a start, Pulsar Modular’s exquisitely designed GUIs make me want to use them. The interface is clean and the clearly laid out controls belie the complex functionality and processes happening under the hood. There’s a learning curve to the P440 because it’s much more than just an EQ but once the fundamentals have been grasped, it’s easy to use. As I’ve said, I’m just an amateur so it’s difficult to explain just what it is that sets this apart from many other plugins of the same category. What I do know is that it sprinkles that magic fairy dust on all my mixes and, like pretty much all the other PM plugins I own, gets used on almost every project. That alone makes it worth the investment. The continuous development and improvement of these products and the excellent post sales support makes this and all Ziad’s product line excellent value for the money in my opinion.