A sculpting EQ with real Pultec-style boost-and-atten curves
What it is
SSR31 EQ is built around the classic Pultec trick – boost and attenuate the
same frequency region at once, so you get full weight below the corner and
a musical dip above it – paired with a Chop-Shop-inspired tilt stage and a
GRIT saturator on the way out.
How it works, in plain terms
Signal chain: input trim, then Tilt (Focus) for a symmetric shelf pivot,
then a Pultec-style low section (boost shelf plus a broad dip), then a Lo
Contour stage that switches between a straight HPF and a parallel Lo-Rider
LPF path with its own tanh saturator, then a Pultec-style high section
(peak boost plus shelf attenuation), a selectable-slope hi-cut, a GRIT
saturation stage (ADAA tape/tube/console/grit modes), a soft limiter, and
output trim.
Features
FOCUS (TILT)
- Amount +/-6 dB around a selectable pivot (250/500/1k/2k Hz)
PULTEC LOW
- Freq 20-120 Hz, Boost and Atten up to 12 dB each, true boost+dip curve
LO CONTOUR
- Freq 20-530 Hz, Bump amount and Bump+ (scales the full 24 dB/oct pair),
Slope 6/12/24 dB/oct - Lo-Rider: parallel bass injection path with its own Mix and Drive
PULTEC HIGH
- Freq 1.5-16 kHz, Boost, Bandwidth, Atten, Atten Freq (5/10/20 kHz)
HI-CUT
- Freq 500 Hz – 25 kHz, optional 0.5x octave-down mode with resonance
GRIT SATURATOR
- Mode: Tape / Tube / Console / Grit
- Drive, Mix
SAFETY
- Soft limiter
- Live EQ curve display showing tilt, Pultec dip/peak and atten overlays
Format: VST3, CLAP | Category: Sculpting EQ, Saturation