I needed an outboard EQ for my masterbuss chain. It was between this one and the Elysia xFilter Mastering Edition. The Elysia looks great, but this one stuck in my head. It took a while for me to get it, its not a cheap EQ.
When it came, I thought "thats really tiny". It looked like a toy, at first. The build quality and feel of the knobs is solid as hell, but I felt a bit disappointed for a moment.
Then I turned it on and tried it on an old mix of mine, which wasn't a very good mix. A few quick moves with the Zahl got it sounding night and day better.
They say its the most depressing bypass button. It really is.
A quick note on stepped pots, the +5/+15 gain range sensitivity, and the practicality of this units approach.
Some users have complained about a lack of stepped pots.
When the unit is in +5 db mode, its very easy to match the knobs to the markers. I never feel its difficult to recall, and I think they made the right choice not to use stepped controls.
When you want to shape mix level tracks that are problematic, for example - putting it into +15 sensitivity gives you the perfect freedom to really sculpt things.
The Zahl on the master buss shapes your mixes beautifully and lets you really set your level just right going into your converter.
This is a killer EQ, musical and technically brilliant.
