Pulsar Audio Pulsar 8200 [WiN]

• Writer: Pulsar Audio
• Product: Pulsar 8200
• Model: 1.0.6-R2R

The paragon of EQs, reinvented. The very best companion on your passive EQ.
Pulsar 8200 is a devoted emulation of the legendary GML 8200 designed by George Massenburg*, the inventor of the parametric EQ. Full EQ management is a formality immediately, nevertheless it was a stunning novelty again within the days.

Identical to the unique machine, Pulsar 8200 offers you a good and strong low finish, a crystalline excessive finish, and surgical management over the frequency spectrum. He completely replicates the all-discrete, Class-A analog electronics that made the unique machine well-known within the 80s, and nonetheless used immediately.

Its parallel topology, coupled with distinctive filtering shapes, permits an intuitive and distinctive spectrum shaping, leading to easy curves, and a extra pure outcome in comparison with traditional digital EQ, sustaining its personal “analog persona”.

AN UPDATED LEGEND
The very best-of-both-worlds method – outdated and fashionable

Pulsar 8200 comes with a whole on-screen curve editor and spectrum analyzer. This best-of-both-worlds method offers an correct overview of your EQ adjustments whereas highlighting the singular behaviors of the unique unit. The simple-to-use graphic interface permits for a a lot quicker workflow in mixing functions.

Get a elegant outcome by eradicating sibilance and harshness as a part of your EQ course of because of the built-in de-esser. Tame aggressive vocal sibilance or management high-frequency transients in overheads with Frequency, Quantity and Band Sort controls.

Pulsar 8200 is a component-accurate mannequin of the unique unit, completely emulating its unique distinctive filters shapes and parallel EQ conduct, producing natural-sounding corrections even for EQ strikes that different models would battle to maintain up with.

Go additional than the {hardware} with extra Pulsar-added advantages. We’ve added excessive and low-cut filtering, a Tilt filter to regulate the general tonal steadiness of all the spectrum, and Air and Sub bands to function on the excessive ends of the audio vary.

Pulsar 8200 takes full benefit of contemporary CPUs to do extra with much less. Regardless of the super quantity of complexity in its audio algorithms, you’ll be capable of use quite a few cases. The resizable interface, coupled with the beneficiant providing of contemporary options, will make Pulsar 8200 your go-to clear EQ.

HOW DOES IT SOUND?

Mastering
Exact & versatile, Pulsar 8200 is the celebrity EQ of your grasp bus. It gives scientific precision once you need to open up the facet and focus the middle of your combine. The lean characteristic lets you effortlessly alter the tonal steadiness of your combine. You possibly can simply create advanced EQ curves that may take your mixes and masters from barely corrected to noticeably polished.

Orchestral / Acoustic
Designed to boost the pure and vigorous character of acoustic devices, stay recordings, natural percussion, and vocals. Its filter shapes and parallel topology make Pulsar 8200 ultimate for fine-tuning acoustic pianos and carving out particular frequencies to disclose the instrument’s full potential. With this EQ, you’ll be able to simply preserve the pure and ‘dwelling’ really feel of acoustic sources, making certain that your combine sounds nice each time.

Digital Music
Whether or not you’re combating the struggle for loudness or simply pushing the frontiers of what bass can do, shaping low-end frequencies in a kick-drum or a bass monitor is important, particularly in digital music or fashionable pop. Pulsar 8200 is a game-changer on this endeavor because of its unparalleled sonic accuracy. You possibly can even make subsonic corrections (15Hz) to attain a cleaner and extra highly effective low finish.

Vocals & Guitars
Make vocals shine by eradicating the sibilants between 6 and eight kHz because of the onboard de-esser. This characteristic can be used to softly compress the harmonic content material of an electrical guitar monitor that’s overly aggressive within the 2k to 4kHz vary, preserving the vitality of the highs whereas eliminating any bothersome frequencies.

Foremost Options

Visible curve enhancing
Manipulate a peculiarly formed analog EQ curve in an intuitive approach. The curve editor is extraordinarily simple to make use of, with a transparent and concise general frequency response show. You possibly can edit all properties of any filter – together with its assigned title – with out touching the decrease panel.

De-esser
An embedded simple-but-efficient de-esser offers you full management over the aggressive or harsh transients of the spectrum, to get a extra polished {and professional} outcome. Within the central panel, select the frequency, the quantity, and the filter kind (bell or shelf).

Mid-Aspect processing
Make EQ adjustments to a sign’s centre or stereo data by working in mid/facet mode. The Hear buttons assist audition every sign in isolation, and the display shows solely the channel you’re engaged on, so that you all the time know what you’re doing.

Auto-gain
This management compensates for quantity adjustments launched by equalization, retaining output degree in line with enter. It makes use of a C-Weighting-based algorithm to introduce a degree compensation primarily based on EQ curve evaluation. Since this compensation solely will depend on your EQ settings, it received’t change throughout playback.

Tilt filter
Some issues can’t be performed with simply bells and cabinets. We’ve added a fancy 6-pole tilt filter to regulate the tonal steadiness of your entire combine in a pure and analog-style approach with a single knob.

Sub & Air band
The Air & Sub bands, impressed by the philosophy of parallel passive equalizers, help you fine-tune the acute high-end and low-end of the spectrum with out including any mud or harshness.

Metering & Spectrum analyser
The on-screen analyzer shows the audio spectrum in real-time (quick and gradual window settings) or over the long-term with the Infinite Spectrum setting. As well as, peak metering gives perception into general dynamics, and RMS meters allow you to monitor loudness and degree matching. An general acquire meter can also be accessible.

Acquire scale
For wholesale discount or will increase in acquire, the Acquire Scale management enables you to intensify or cut back a whole EQ curve, performing like a multiplier for all bands’ acquire settings.