Jade Starr Music

Things - Flip EQ

by AudioThing

Tilting EQ with mid/side mode, cutoff, boost and soft clip

Nov 16, 202360 minWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 20:57The tilt knob trading lows for highs, and double-tap to recentre
  2. 21:33What the soft clip does to the distortion a hard boost creates
  3. 23:21Mix, mid and side modes, and how the tilt changes the stereo image
  4. 26:19High pass and low pass combined with the tilt to fake a notch
  5. 31:06Routing an LFO over MIDI CC to move the tilt knob automatically
  6. 33:22Stacking LFOs on cutoff and high pass at different rates

What it does

A tilting EQ driven by one large knob: turn right for more highs and less lows, turn left for the reverse. A cutoff control sets the pivot frequency, a boost raises the amount, and a soft clip catches the distortion a hard tilt introduces. It runs on the full mix or on just the mid or side channel, and separate high pass and low pass filters can be brought in on top. Presets, a randomising dice with per-parameter locks and copy-paste round it out.

In the demo

Jade puts it on an ambient chord bed from Scaler into SynthMasters, moving the tilt by hand to show what it does to a static pad. She then patches an LFO to it over MIDI CC and adds two more on the cutoff and high pass, so the EQ animates on its own, and applies the same setup to drums.

Worth knowing

There is no band control or notch, so this shapes a whole balance rather than fixing a specific frequency. Boosting without the soft clip on distorts quickly.

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