Sound Radix Surfer EQ2 $199

This is a highly individual EQ, the main reason being that it will follow the pitch of a monophonic musical source and adjust each band to remain ‘in tune’ with it. There are sophisticated controls to keep this tracking accurate and they work well with a minimum of octave leaps. The EQ itself is 5-band with switchable curves for each band including a very interesting Harmonic Filter which turns a single band into a four mode tracking filter. Each band can Surf (track) the pitch individually so you can do a bit of low mid removal and just have the high-end ‘Surfing’. It really does give a different kind of presence to a lead line or a voice and, as you are not fixed to just the octave harmonics of the incoming note (you can offset each filter to the pitch), when used with extreme settings you can force some fantastically strange sounding harmonics out of a melody. It’s a good sounding EQ too, and that Harmonic Filter is great. Very creative.