Here’s a cool one for the Gift Guide that has nothing to with holidays, or specials or Q4 sales incentives. **** DDMF-The home of Equalizers-DDMF ****.

Try as I like, I’m not an EQ geek by any means. I respect the hell out of those that really understand this shit on a deep level but not only are the nuances lost on me but so is a lot of the science. I’m kinda a masher when it comes to EQs. I don’t use presets, but I just shape and sweep until it sounds like I want it to.

Nevertheless, I tend to follow these discussions like a good trainspotter. And I pick up little bits here and there. And fortunately there are developers and engineers out there that *do* get this, and who make this stuff available to punters such as myself.

In recent months a lot of discussion has been going on here and also at gearslutz about how all IIR equalizers are basically the same. While the topic is still not completely settled, it is clear that the differences are at most rather subtle and that the basic ingredient of basically all IIR equalizers is a variant of the good old RBJ cookbook formula.
This was the reason I’ve assembled ColourEQ: it is a 4th order IIR equalizer and follows a completely different approach to generate its frequency response. Nevertheless it is zero-delay and almost-zero-CPU. Due to it’s higher order there are more degrees of freedom to play with, which is why it is (to my knowledge) the first “super-parametric” EQ: basically there are four knobs per band instead of three!

What really makes this project a thing of wonder is that the developer has adopted a Pay-What-You-Will policy that is a total gift to we users. Sliding scale is something that more software companies should factor into their pricing plans.

A lot of minds and ears way better than myself are gushing over this new addition to the DDMF line. I bought it and tried it sight unseen and it’s a great EQ.