SPL EQ Rangers User Manual

SPL Analog Code ® Plug-in

Manual

EQ Rangers

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EQ Rangers Analog Code® Plug-ins

Manual

EQ Rangers
Analog Code® Plug-ins

Model Number 2890
Manual Version 2.0 – 12 /2011

This user‘s guide contains a description of the product. It in no
way represents a guarantee of particular characteristics or results
of use. The information in this document has been carefully com­piled and verified and, unless otherwise stated or agreed upon,
correctly describes the product at the time of packaging with this
document.

Sound Performance Lab (SPL) continuously strives to improve its
products and reserves the right to modify the product described in
this manual at any time without prior notice. This document is the
property of SPL and may not be copied or reproduced in any way, in
part or fully, without authorization by SPL electronics GmbH.

SPL electronics GmbH

Sohlweg 80, 41372 Niederkruechten, Germany
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-Mail: [e-mail]
Website: spl.info

© 2011 SPL electronics GmbH. All rights reserved.

The SPL logo, The Analog

Code

®

, Vitalizer® and Atmos® are trademarks of SPL electronics GmbH.

All other

logos and bra n d names ar e registere d tr adem a rk s of the i r respec tive owner s.

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EQ Rangers Analog Code

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Content

Installation 4

Plugin Alliance Activation 4
System Requirements and Compatibility 4
MAC and Windows Installation 4

Introduction 5

The Analog Code

®

5

EQ Rangers 5

Control Elements 7

Mouse Wheel Control 7
On 7
Power LED 7
Signal LED 7
Overload LED 7
Settings A, B, C, D 8
Output 8
Faders 8
Bass Ranger: Fader Settings 9
Vox Ranger: Fader Settings 10
Full Ranger: Fader Settings 11
Vox Ranger: filter curves 12
Bass Ranger: filter curves 13
Full Ranger: filter curves 13

Applications 14

EQ Principles 14

Your Notes 15

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EQ Rangers Analog Code® Plug-ins

Plugin Alliance Activation

Your Analog Code plug-in must be activated in your Plugin Alliance
account. You can set it up and log into your account anytime at

http://www.plugin-alliance.com

For details about the activation process, read the Plugin Alliance
Activation Manual. The PDF file is stored in the same folder of your
computer like this product manual file.
Alternatively, the following web page provides the same informa­tion: http://www.plugin-alliance.com/activation

System Requirements and Compatibility

For details about system requirements and supported platforms or
formats visit http://www.plugin-alliance.com/compatibility

MAC and Windows Installation

1. Check for the latest plug-in software version before installation:

http://software.spl.info/download

2. Execute the installer file and follow the instructions.

Installation

EQ Rangers Analog Code® Plug-ins

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Introduction

The Analog Code

®

For more than two decades, SPL of Germany is well-known as man­ufacturer of handmade analog hardware processors. Innovations
like the Vitalizer™ and Transient Designer™ are accompanied by a
complete analog range from frontend to backend and culminate in
the Mastering Series with exemplary specs thanks to SPL’s propri­etary 120 V rails technology.
While SPL’s hardware has been fascinating audio professionals
from home studio owners to mastering engineers in the world’s
most famous facilities, there has been a continuing and ever grow­ing demand for digital (DAW) users to be able to enjoy this technol­ogy.
Our software design team has managed to transfer the class and
excellence of our analog processors into the digital domain. Latest
methods for high-precision modeling of our analog circuit designs
now give us results beyond a pure mathematical approach. The
digital products are so amazingly close to their analog equivalents
that we call them the Analog Code plug-ins.

EQ Rangers

The EQ Rangers plug-in is modeled from the SPL RackPack Ranger
EQ modules. These EQ modules are specialized to specific fre­quency ranges and combine the unique sound results of passive
fiters with a graphic EQ interface.
The concept of the SPL EQ Rangers plug-ins is characterized by two
decisive features that separate them from traditional designs:
First there is the basic idea of specialized modules for typical
instrument or vocal ranges. In contrast to static graphical EQs with
always the same center frequencies in repeating octave distances,
the Ranger EQ modules are much better suited to work with specific
instruments and their peculiarities—and only different frequency
ranges do allow to effectively separate instruments in a mix. >