#UAD NEVE 1073 PREAMP REVIEW MANUAL#

I believe Neve EQ's have resonant shelves and LP/HP filters which alot of digital EQ's don't. Speaking about the not subtle part, that comes down to the amount of harmonic distortion (which is variable in the plugs but not in the HW) and the curves themselves.ДЇor instance API eq's have an interesting gain/Q interaction where the peak filters get progressively narrower as you boost the gain. So if american = API, one would think british would = neve or ssl.or Redd, trident or helios.

#UAD NEVE 1073 PREAMP REVIEW MANUAL#

The manual for slick EQ emphatically states that the various modes have no relation to actual hardware. Interesting that you found a match between API and the american curves.

The Neve clones may have different curves but they're still wider boosts than you'd expect if you're used to ReaEq similar. So when you make your 'subtle' 2dB boost at 12kHz on an API your actually boosting at what would be calibrated as a ~4kHz boost on a more conventionally marked EQ like the Slick, this as well as boosting lower down the frequency range also means that at around where you think you're boosting - 12kHz, the actual boost is a lot more than 2dB. If we take the Slick Eq in American mode and compare it to the API clones it's curves match exactly, but you have to divide the HF shelf frequency by approx 3 and multiply the LF shelf by ~3 as well. You'd have to mix and match models.Д«ut I think what gives these 'character' EQs a lot of their appeal is that they're not subtle - for small adjustments they make big differences over wider frequency ranges than I think many of us would choose to do naturally. If you've not already got it you should try Slick EQ, there wasn't a 1073 match among it's various models, but some of the Shelving curves were similar, and some of the mid filters were similar, I can't remember which models though. This of course presumes that the T-Racks Eq 73 is. The 1973 might be good on it's own merits but I wouldn't say it was in any way a 1073 clone. The 1973 doesn't model the harmonic distortion at all. Testing Stillwell's 1973 against T=Racks EQ 73 gave very different results: the HF and LF shelving curves very radically different, the mid filter in Wide mode was similar (within a couple of dB). So I think that it's reasonable to assume that Waves and T-Racks are pretty faithful to the hardware given that they match each other.

I sadly don't own the original hardware so establishing a baseline for accuracy is difficult, but comparing Waves API 550's against T-Racks API's I found the EQ curves matched exactly, also as I've mentioned in another thread this also matches TDR/VOS slick EQ in American mode. I didn't measure time domain differences. I did a bit of testing on various EQs whilst deciding want to get in the Black Friday sales, I compared the filter shapes at various degrees of cut and boost, and the harmonic distortion.

Uad neve 1073 preamp review