Waves PuigTec EQs

Waves PuigTec EQs - Classic Passive Equalizer Suite | Recreating Legendary Analog Tone

Introducing Waves PuigTec EQs, a premium digital audio plugin that perfectly recreates two legendary Pultec passive equalizers: the EQP-1A and MEQ-5. These classic devices, renowned in the audio engineering world for over half a century, have become indispensable tools in mastering, vocals, bass, guitar, and other mixing applications due to their unique tone-shaping capabilities. Now, you can experience their warmth and purity directly in your digital audio workstation, without the need for expensive physical hardware.

Under the personal guidance of Grammy-winning producer/mixer Jack Joseph Puig (who has worked with superstars like John Mayer, Lady Gaga, and the Rolling Stones), Waves meticulously modeled the well-preserved, handcrafted legendary units from his personal collection. This ensures that the Waves PuigTec EQs plugins faithfully reproduce the sonic essence of the original hardware, delivering unparalleled analog warmth and depth. Whether you're seeking rich, powerful lows, pristine highs, or smooth, articulate mids, this set of Pultec EQ emulation plugins will fulfill all your desires for perfect tone.

Key Benefits & Application Scenarios

Faithful Recreation of Classics
Waves PuigTec EQs precisely model two well-preserved Pultec EQP-1A and MEQ-5 units from Jack Joseph Puig's studio. These handcrafted legendary equalizers are renowned for their pristine sound quality, and under Puig's guidance, Waves has ensured a high-fidelity digital recreation, allowing you to experience authentic analog tone.

EQP-1A: Rich Lows & Pristine Highs
Utilize the EQP-1A's unique capabilities to create full, powerful low frequencies while ensuring highs are clear and never harsh. It offers three high-frequency cut-off frequencies, along with independent boost and attenuate controls for four low-frequency bands and seven high-frequency bands (with bandwidth parameters), making it an ideal choice for mixing bass, drums, and synthesizers.

Exclusive Pultec Trick
One of the EQP-1A's most famous features is its ability to simultaneously boost and attenuate the same frequency, creating a unique resonant curve. Thousands of classic recordings have cleverly used this function to enhance low-frequency effects, and now you can easily achieve this legendary 'Pultec Trick' to inject unique vitality into your tracks.

MEQ-5: Rich Mid-Range Shaping
The MEQ-5 is specifically designed for the mid-range, capable of creating rich, smooth tones for instruments like vocals, acoustic guitars, and pianos. It offers five low-mid frequency boost bands, eleven mid-frequency attenuate bands, and five high-mid frequency boost bands, allowing you to precisely sculpt mid-range details and make your tracks more expressive.

Detailed Features & Included Software

Technical Specifications (Tech Specs)

• Product Name: Waves PuigTec EQs
• Product Type: Passive EQ Plugin Suite
• Modeled Units: Pultec EQP-1A (High/Low Frequency Equalizer), Pultec MEQ-5 (Mid-Frequency Equalizer)
• Modeling Source: Grammy-winning producer Jack Joseph Puig's private collection of physical hardware units
• EQP-1A Low-Frequency Control:
  • Independent Boost control for four selectable frequencies
  • Independent Attenuate control for four selectable frequencies
• EQP-1A High-Frequency Control:
  • Independent Boost control for seven selectable frequencies
  • Independent Attenuate control for seven selectable frequencies
  • Bandwidth parameter control
• EQP-1A High-Frequency Cut-off: Three selectable frequencies
• MEQ-5 Low-Mid Frequency Boost: Five selectable frequencies
• MEQ-5 Mid-Frequency Attenuation: Eleven selectable frequencies
• MEQ-5 High-Mid Frequency Boost: Five selectable frequencies
• Main Applications: Mastering, vocals, bass, guitar, drums, synthesizers, and other track mixing and tone enhancement
• Supported Platforms: Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) plugin formats (for detailed supported formats, please refer to the Waves official website)