Variety Of Sound has released BaxterEQ, a freeware transparent mastering and mix buss shelving EQ for Windows.

BaxterEQ features

  • Finest tonal sweetening and finishing which always stays true to the source
    • natural and accurate bass response
    • authentic analog style HF curve rendering
    • smoothest shelving operation
  • Perfectly suited for the mastering chain
    • stepped controls throughout for repeatability and matched channel operation
    • full dual channel layout
    • full mid-side encoding support
    • per channel level control for easy A/B match
  • Artifact free technical design
    • low ripple and distortion filter implementations
    • 64bit floating point internal processing
    • oversampled for superior impulse response
  • Meticulously selected frequencies
    • Baxandall shelving filters
      • LF @ 74, 84, 98, 116, 131, 166, 230 and 361 Hz
      • HF @ 1.6, 1.8, 2.1, 2.4, 3.4, 4.8, 7.1, 11 and 18 kHz
    • 2-pole Butterworth filters
      • LC @ 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 43 and 54 Hz
      • HC @ 7.5, 9, 11.1, 12.6, 16, 21, 28 and 40 kHz
  • An additional analog signal path emulation provides some subtle but precious stereo imaging improvements.

BaxterEQ is available to download as a freeware VST effect plug-in for Windows.

More information: Variety Of Sound