If you haven’t checked out Chris’ videos, visit his website and see for yourself what can be achieved with only five fixed frequency bands – it’s astonishing. The beauty of the Michelangelo EQ is that it’s such a versatile piece of kit it can be very clean if you only need to balance out the frequencies, but it can also add a truckload of grit and weight or sparkle a layer of fairy dust on top of the mix. Words are not enough to describe the vibe of this unit and we strongly encourage you to try this for yourself on anything you want to infuse some character, whether it is a bass line, vocal track or across the entire mix. This is a truly remarkable piece of hardware which works great on individual tracks and in mixing and mastering applications.
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Apart from the six knobs, Agression, Love, Mid, High, Air and Trim, the EQ has two switches to toggle between Flat or Full response in the mids and a Modern or Vintage setting for the highs along with two calibration pots for the left and right input levels. The unit has six intuitively named knobs which control the level of five fixed frequencies manually tuned by Chris himself and a Trim pot at the very right of the unit. Michelangelo is not aimed at precisely targeting certain frequencies but rather it is a sound sculpting tool meant to be applied in broad stroke while also boasting a harmonic generator. The units built to order by Chris and his team are discrete, Class A, all tube, full stereo units, with Jensen transformers in and out. Hendyamps MichelangeloĪ less known sound-sculpting tool, Hendyamps’ Michelangelo is a true hidden gem designed by Chris Henderson in mid-2015. We recommend getting in touch with Mark over at The Audio Hunt who will gladly tackle your tracks and work them through Manley’s brilliant machine for less than a 100th of the price of the unit. It’s the sort of unit that you just have to hear for yourself in action on your own tracks, to get a sense of its full potential and capabilities. The Massive Passive is designed to be a fundamentally different EQ which incorporates the best strengths of Pultecs, choice console EQs, parametrics and graphics. The result is a unit which produces twice as much eq with half the coloration, making it ideal for mixing or mastering uses or for fine vocal shading, to name only a few. Passive equalisers work by shaping the sound through the use of metal film resistors, film capacitors and hand-wound inductors as opposed to active circuitry which can impart artefacts or add distortion to the signal. A passive equaliser, as the name blatantly suggests, the Massive Passive can deliver a pristine sound even when pushed to the limit. Sometimes referred to as sounding ‘like a Pultec on hyper-steroids’, The Massive Passive is a two channel, four band equalizer, with additional high pass and low pass filters.