Equalizers & Passive-Active Pack Bundle

The Equalizers & Passive-Active Pack Bundle combines modern precision with classic analog character. Equalizers is a highly optimized, feature-rich plug-in with colorful, draggable curves, dynamic bands, and flexible mid/side and left/right channel control. It also has the unique ability to load modeled Softube equalizer plug-ins, such as Trident A-Range, directly within its interface—blending vintage tone with modern features like EQ curves and frequency analysis for a fast, streamlined workflow. Paired with it, the Passive-Active Pack delivers three distinctive equalizers, each offering a unique tonal palette and workflow.

Within the Passive-Active Pack, the Passive Equalizer is modeled on a renowned German passive three-band design, delivering a wide bandwidth with a warm, full-bodied low end and crisp, airy highs—perfect for adding weight or sparkle without harshness. The Active Equalizer, inspired by a Swiss seventies model, offers tight, focused filters with parametric bands, making it a precise tool for surgical adjustments. The Focusing Equalizer takes a more creative approach, automatically adapting its EQ bands in a way that feels like working alongside an experienced sound engineer, with selectable passive or active character and a built-in one-knob saturation control.

Together, Equalizers and the Passive-Active Pack form a versatile toolkit that covers everything from detailed corrective work to broad, musical tone shaping—ideal for mixing, mastering, and creative sound design.

Equalizers

Equalizers is a modern equalizer with all the bells and whistles. It features a super- optimized CPU, colorful and draggable curves, dynamic bands, individual channel control (mid, side, left, right), and more. With more to come.

A unique element of Equalizers, however, is the ability to load modeled Softube equalizer plug-ins within the plug-in. For example, loading Trident A-Range within Equalizers gives not only the full Trident A-Range experience but also modern features like EQ curves, a frequency analyzer, or even an extra band.

With Equalizers, users get the best of both: corrective and vibey equalizing in one plug-in for an ultra-fast workflow.

Features

• Vintage and modern equalizing combined
• A modern EQ with the ability to load vintage EQs
• Modern EQ bands with all the bells and whistles
• Dynamic bands
• Fully flexible M/S L/R routing

Learn more about Equalizers.

Passive-Active Pack

This Collection Includes Three Highly Useable Equalizer Models that are Unique to Softube

The Passive-Active Pack is a collection of three very different equalizers, each with its own character and quirks. The Passive and Active equalizers emulate real workhorse units, used on thousands of recordings from past to present. The Focusing Equalizer combines these with analog sounding saturation and a novel workflow.

Passive Equalizer

Passive Equalizer is modeled from a famous German passive three-band equalizer, and features a wide bandwidth and an unsurpassed clear and open sound. The low boost gives you a warm low end, perfect to fatten up a bass drum or bass guitar track. Cutting the highs gives you a very gentle 6 dB cut which allows you to remove highs in a very musical way. The high boost is open and crisp and breathes life into any track.

Key Features:

• Three bands with an extremely wide and open sound
• Excellent treble control without any “digital harshness”
• Warm low end and a sparkling top

Active Equalizer

Active Equalizer is modeled from an active equalizer design made somewhere in the Swiss alps in the seventies. Whereas the Passive Equalizer is wide, clear and unintrusive, the Active Equalizer is more of a surgeon with a tight and focused sound. It’s a highly useful problem solver when you need to get into details.

 Key Features:

• Tight and focused sounding filters
• Low and High cut
• Three parametric bands with selectable gain in 2dB steps (-/+ 16 dB), selectable frequency with overlapping, but non-interfering, bands (50-500 Hz, 380Hz-3.8kHz, 1.8-18kHz) and a choice between a narrow or wide peak (Q) for each band

Focusing Equalizer

Focusing Equalizer is an inspiring and untraditional take on the EQ concept, which is all made up by Softube. The Focusing Equalizer works in a very musical way and does a lot of thinking for you.

At first glance it may seem like you’re sacrificing versatility by using an equalizer with a limited set of options – why use a three-band equalizer when you can use your digital equalizer with umpteen bands, continous gain, selectable Q and different curves all built in? Well, equalization is all about sound design. Having an equalizer where the designer has already made some of the choices four you is like having an experienced sound engineer helping out and giving you directions.

Key Features:

• Inspiring, untraditional and very useful workflow
• Choose between Passive or Active EQ character
• Three-band EQ that automatically and musically changes with Low and High Cut
• Built-in one-knob saturation with metering and selectable saturation type

Learn more about Passive-Active Pack.