Logic Pro 10.4’s new Vintage EQs

Logic has historically offered nice but unremarkable EQs. Now, however, there is an included trio of awesome emulations of some of the most famous equalisers ever built, as seen here

VINTAGE CONSOLE EQ

The Vintage Console EQ brings the sound of Neve’s vaunted 1073 to Logic. We see four bands including Low Cut (parametric, but with fixed gain reduction), Low Gain (parametric, shelving), Mid Gain (parametric) and High Gain (shelving). Like others in the collection, the output model is selectable between that of any of the three included units.

VINTAGE GRAPHIC EQ

This one looks rather like an API 560 EQ module turned on its side, though with the aforementioned Output Model feature added. On the face of it, it looks like a 10-band job, and indeed that’s what it is. However, a Tune function will allow you to incrementally bump the affected frequencies up or down by a full octave each way.

VINTAGE TUBE EQ

No collection of vintage equalizer emulations would be considered complete without a Pultec clone. Here we have the familiar slate blue panel with a handful of big, chunky knobs used to perform the fairly broad strokes for which the Pultec is known. And yes, you can do the Pultec trick of boosting and cutting simultaneously.