DMGAudio | EQuilibrium

£149.99 / 30 Day Demo available [owners of EQuality + EQuick login to get discounted price]
http://www.dmgaudio.com/products_equilibrium.php

Overview
•Massively flexible EQ suitable for all critical professional applications
•Audio Engine can be incredibly low CPU usage, or incredibly high for mastering applications
•EQ features pristine digital curves, plus circuit models of vintage EQs, and engineering filters
•Completely reconfigurable UI with set-up wizard to suit to your specific workflow
•Extensive routing, grouping, channel and metering control
•Extensive analyser functionality, including 1/3 octave, 1/12 octave, spectrograph
•Even in lowest CPU mode, generates super-high-quality prototypes - clear undistorted top-end
•In FIR mode, Linear, Analogue, Minimum, Zero-Latency Analogue or even Free phase control
•32 bands of EQ, Q 0.1->50, +/-36dB range
•Each band can be Peak, HPF, LPF, High Shelf, Low Shelf or Notch
•In stereo, each bank can process Mid, Side or the full stereo image
•Surround support for channels groupings in DTS
•Fully parametric filters (high and low-pass), 6/12/18/24/30/36/42/48db/oct
•Windows VST, VST3 and AAX as 32+64bit, RTAS 32bit
•Mac VST, VST3, AU and AAX as 32+64bit, RTAS 32bit
Sound
•Circuit models of vintage EQs from history, model numbers including: 4000, 3 (4 modes), 110, 550, 88, 32, 250
•Filters include: Coincident, Butterworth, Chebyshev, Bessel, Critical, Legendre, Elliptic, Allpass types
•First-order, second-order, vintage, and tilt shelves
•Classic DMG Bells and notches, with a +/-36dB range, and a Q range from 0.1 to 50
•Classic DMG Shelves which let you move the resonance above or below the curve
•Classic DMG Filters at 6/12/18/24/30/36/42/48 db/octave, sweepable resonance
•M/S processing mode, allows you to process Mid, Side or the Stereo image
•L/R processing mode, for independent Left and Right EQ
•Surround sound support upto 7.1 DTS, with channel grouping matrix, and per-pair M/S processing
•Per-band phase control, plus quick access to Linear, Analogue and Minimum phase modes
•Extensive Impulse Response design controls, including a selection of parametric windows, length and padding
Vision
•Flexible, modular, configurable UI
•Big, clear, antialiased graph
•Hi-res Spectrum analyser with multiple modes
•Range, to scale the EQ response, both +ve and -ve
•Frequency shift, to allow you to retune the response
•Configurable multi-channel metering, supporting K-metering and variable ballistics
•8 banks of A/B
•Full preset management system
•Undo/redo
•Autolisten mode, for quick finding/adjustment of frequencies
•Clip LED
http://www.dmgaudio.com/index.php

Have to say this does look interesting - in fact on first viewing I thought this is something I should download and try - then I saw the price!!!!!!!
Needless to say I shall not even bother to download just in case I should get tempted!!!!!!
Crazy
Nigel

July4, 2013
EQuilibrium updated to1.05:

• AAX2.0 and PT11 compatibility.
• Small manual update
• Fix Butterworth and 4kg shelves.
• Fix Logic Surround layout
• Fix tooltip fadeout.
• Fix spurious locked-in-autolisten bug.
• Added 8k2 peak...
• Added 4ke peak... (brown,black)
• Fix crash bug with AAX2.0 AudioSuite in PT11
• Added pref to show meter readouts as peak or live. (peak is default)
• Added new Units presets
• Preference to control compression for presets/session saves.

I've used the EQuality since it was first released. I was online looking for a temporary Linear-Phase EQ that I could use in lieu of my Algorithmix PEQ Red, which had been giving me some headaches at the time. The DMG is now 64-Bit, and does a fabulous job, while I wait (with bated breath) for Algorithmix to update their VSTs to 64-bit. I've really enjoyed the flexibility and total makeover of what/how an EQ works.
 
If you have $200 to spend on any VST EQ you want, the DMG EQuality is by far my top suggestion. EQualibrium is great as well, but you better REALLY understand EQs before jumping into such an advanced, albeit easy-to-use, VST.
 
I'm not advertising for DMG, but this IS my own objective observation and experience you may value. If that doesn't hold any weight, understand that the Algorithmix PEQ Red, boasted by Bob Katz as the best software EQ he's ever heard costs in excess of $1200! It's a killer-sounding Linear-Phase EQ, but that's all it does. DMG has all but replaced that Algorithmix EQ for me.