The slow part of EQ work is rarely the filtering. It is finding the spot: sweeping a bell around, hunting for the thing that bothers you, and second-guessing whether it was really there. EQ Pro 1.2 adds a tool for exactly that, and it is careful not to pretend it knows your record better than you do.
Spectrum landmarks
Turn on the new icon in the top right and EQ Pro marks the frequencies where something keeps going on. Not the loud moments, the persistent ones: it listens over a few seconds and only raises a marker once a frequency has stood out of its surroundings consistently. Momentary peaks never surface.
Hover a marker and it gives you the exact frequency and the nearest note. Press and hold it and you hear that spot on its own. Drag down onto the curve and the audition sweeps across any frequency, snapping back to the markers when you return to the top strip.
The important part is what it does not do. It does not decide that anything is wrong. A landmark is a place to look, not a verdict: whether the note, room mode or resonance it points at is a problem or the character of the instrument is entirely your call. Nothing is created, nothing is changed. It is purely a listen.
The rest came from the people using it
A good part of 1.2 is not our idea.
- The analyzer reads the way you wanted it to. Tilt the spectrum by 3, 4.5 or 6 dB/oct so the top octaves are legible and a typical mix sits flat, and set how fast the display falls back after a peak, from snappy to heavily damped.
- A preset browser in the header, with factory templates that are starting points rather than finished mixing decisions, plus your own presets.
- A/B compare, to hold two versions of a setting and flip between them.
- Hover help on everything, so you never have to guess what a control does.
- Stepless scaling in the VST3, from 75 to 200 % at any size instead of fixed steps, remembered with your project.
It also sounds better
Two changes you hear rather than see.
Automatic dynamic bands now level gently instead of limiting. Before, every automatic band acted as a brickwall at the threshold, so anything musical meant switching to Full controls and dialling the ratio down by hand. Now the strength follows the range you set: a small range eases its region down softly, a large one grabs firmly. Projects saved with an earlier version load exactly as you mixed them.
Shelves respond to Q more musically. Raising Q grows the resonant bump near the corner gently instead of jumping to extreme peaks after a small turn, the way the leading parametric EQs voice their shelves. A shelf at the default sounds exactly as before.
Still free. Still no gate.
Everything that was free stays free. No account, no email address, no registration, no trial timer. Download it, put it on your records, and if something is missing, tell us: that is how a good part of this version happened.
Read the full changelog for every change, including the fixes.