TOKYO DAWN Slick EQ User Manual
VARIETY OF SOUND & TOKYO DAWN LABS
Slick EQ – Owner’s Manual
Product version: 1.3.0
Revision: 152, last update: October 27, 2019
Editors: Herbert Goldberg, Fabien Schivre
The Concept ............................................................................................................................................................ 4
Main Controls .......................................................................................................................................................... 5
EQ Model............................................................................................................................................................. 5
Model: American ................................................................................................................................................. 5
Model: British ...................................................................................................................................................... 6
Model: German ................................................................................................................................................... 7
Model: Soviet ...................................................................................................................................................... 8
EQ Saturation ...................................................................................................................................................... 8
High Pass Filter .................................................................................................................................................... 9
Low Frequency Band ........................................................................................................................................... 9
Mid Frequency Band ........................................................................................................................................... 9
High Frequency Band .......................................................................................................................................... 9
Output Stage ..................................................................................................................................................... 10
Output Gain And Auto Gain .............................................................................................................................. 10
Bypass ............................................................................................................................................................... 11
Quality ............................................................................................................................................................... 11
Process-Target ................................................................................................................................................... 11
Secondary Controls / Toolbar ............................................................................................................................... 12
Undo/Redo ........................................................................................................................................................ 12
Preset Management .......................................................................................................................................... 12
A/B Control ........................................................................................................................................................ 13
Help Mode ......................................................................................................................................................... 13
Settings .............................................................................................................................................................. 13
Info/About Page ................................................................................................................................................ 13
Context Menu ................................................................................................................................................... 13
Installation ............................................................................................................................................................ 14
Get in touch! ......................................................................................................................................................... 14
Technical specifications......................................................................................................................................... 14
Credits ................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Disclaimer and License .......................................................................................................................................... 16
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Thank you for choosing a Tokyo Dawn Labs product!
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THE CONCEP T
TDR VOS SlickEQ is a mixing/mastering equalizer designed for ease of use, musical flexibility and impeccable
sound. Three (and a half) filter-bands arranged in a classic LOW/MID/HIGH semi parametric layout offer fast
and intuitive access to four distinct EQ modes, each representing a set of pre-defined EQ curves and behaviors.
In order to “warm up” the material with additional harmonic content, SlickEQ offers a switchable EQ nonlinearity and an output stage with various saturation models. These options are meant to offer subtle and in-
teresting textures, rather than obvious distortion. The effect is made to add the typical “mojo” often associated
with high quality analogue audio gear.
An elaborate auto gain option automatically compensates for changes of perceived-loudness during EQ (within
reasonable limits) and a gain-trim feature helps controlling peak overloads with ease.
The 64bit multi-rate processing scheme (a.k.a. “oversampling”) practically eliminates typical problems of digital
EQ implementations such as frequency-warping, quantization distortion and aliasing.
Beside the primary controls, the plug-in comes with an array of additional helpers: Advanced preset management, undo/redo, quick A/B comparison, copy & paste, an online help, editable labels, mouse-wheel support
and much more. Finally, SlickEQ allows to exclusively process the stereo sum or stereo difference without addi-
tional sum/difference encoding (see “M/S” microphony).
SlickEQ is a collaborative project by “Variety of Sound” (Herbert Goldberg) and “Tokyo Dawn Labs” (Vladislav
Goncharov and Fabien Schivre).
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MA IN CONTROLS
EQ MODEL
One of four different EQ models (curves and behaviors) can be selected via the central drop down menu or
cycled through with the help of prev/next buttons. The interface’s background color changes depending on the
selected model.
The models represent a specific set of curves and EQ behaviors each providing their own musical “feel”. The
different names and colors have no deeper meaning, they are meant to help with memorization and identification of the different models.
MOD EL: AMERICA N
Classy and gentle slopes, American style. Proportional Q design.
American model: Bell filter cut/boost range
American model: Shelving filter(s) cut/boost range
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