LOW · SHELF100 Hz · +12 dB and +6 dB
Set to 100 Hz · G2 at +12 dB, the lift peaks at 82 Hz · E2. The sub gets 10.9 dB: punch over the sub, not mud.
Tone Coloring EQAU · VST3
SALTA EQ56
Tone, with a pulse.
SALTA EQ56 is a tone-coloring equalizer built to shape weight, presence, harmonics and clarity.
01Sounds
Hear the difference.
Real material through SALTA EQ56. Before is the untouched excerpt, after is what came out, matched in loudness: what changes is the tone, not the level.
What SALTA EQ56 changed · after minus before
02SALTA EQ56
A coloring EQ for people who care about feel.
SALTA EQ56 is not designed to simply make an EQ curve. It is designed to change how a sound feels: the weight under a bass, the air over a vocal, the way a drum bus sits forward without getting louder.
Three bands, one row. Low, mid and high each carry a frequency knob, a gain knob and a SHELF / BELL switch. The switch does not just change the shape of a curve, it picks the whole topology of the band. Frequency knobs lock onto the printed marks, so the pointer and the mark it points at can never disagree, and every move shows up in the value window as hertz, note name and signed decibels.
Under each band sits a COLOR lamp. Engaged, the band builds an explicit harmonic layer and adds it on top of the signal. Nothing is subtracted from the clean path and the band's own fundamental stays where it was, so the character comes up without the note draining away. Three lamps, three voices, from a hint of warmth on a vocal to an obvious grind on a bus.
CLARITY, the second lamp on the high band, opens the top of the stereo picture: the sides get a lift, the middle gives a little back, and the top end widens without turning brittle. EQ IN is a crossfaded bypass rather than a hard cut, so you can flip it under programme material, compare, and nothing clicks. CONTROL trims the output, twin VU meters read what leaves, and 26 factory presets ship inside, filed by category, with your own saved next to them.
- Passive-style low end
- Clarity for the top
- Harmonic coloration
- Saturation
- Note-aware windows
- Musical tone shaping
03Measured
What it does, in numbers.
Each band's response and the COLOR stages' harmonics, measured through the plug-in. Not a picture of the idea.
MID · BELL1 kHz · +12 dB
The bell peaks on its own centre: 1 kHz set, 1 kHz lifted. With its lamp on, a little weight under the mud and a little edge off 2-3 kHz.
HIGH · SHELF8 kHz · +12 dB and +6 dB
A boost is a parallel branch: the top opens rather than just getting louder. CLARITY works on the sides; a hard-left source leaves the right at -121 dBFS.
LOW lamp · 60 Hz tonedB below the fundamental
MID lamp · 1 kHz tonedB below the fundamental
All three lamps · 1 kHzdistortion vs level
The harmonic layer sits on top of the clean signal. The second harmonic falls 12.8 dB for every 12 dB the level drops, the way a valve does; the lamps are loudness-matched (+0.4 / +0.5 / +0.2 dB on), so nothing is louder-is-better.
04At a glance
Everything on the panel.
- 01LOW
Low band, 20–300 Hz. Shelf or bell. The knob locks on the printed marks, so what you see is where it sits.
- 02MID
Mid band, 300 Hz–3 kHz. Shelf or bell topology, not just a curve shape.
- 03HIGH
High band, 2–20 kHz. On SHELF a boost is a parallel branch that opens the top rather than just making it louder.
- 04COLOR
One COLOR lamp per band. Engaged, the band adds a harmonic layer on top of the EQ. Nothing is taken away from the clean signal.
- 05CLARITY
CLARITY opens the top of the stereo picture: the sides get a lift, the middle gives a little back.
- 06EQ IN
EQ IN is a true bypass with a short crossfade, so it can be flipped under programme material without a click.
- 07CONTROL
Output trim, with its value printed under the word while it is off zero.
- 08VU METERS
Twin meters reading what leaves the plug-in, after the trim.
- 09WINDOWS
Each band shows its frequency, the nearest note to the cent, and its gain. LOW on SHELF also names the note actually being lifted.
05The details · Purchase
- Product
- SALTA EQ56
- Type
- Tone Coloring EQ
- Delivery
- Instant download · licence key by email
- Platforms
- macOS 11 or later (Apple Silicon and Intel) · Windows 10 or later (64-bit)
- Formats
- AU (macOS) · VST3 (macOS, Windows)
- Tested in
- Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Cubase, FL Studio, Reaper, Reason 12.2+
- Licensing
- Email + key · every machine you own · no iLok, no internet
- Demo
- 7 days, fully working · then it waits for a key
- Latency
- 49 samples (about 1 ms at 48 kHz), reported to the host
- Latency 49 samples (1.0 ms at 48 kHz), reported to the host. Flat to 0.0 dB with every gain at zero.
- CPU: 0.8 % of one core with the lamps off, 1.4 % with them on (stereo, 48 kHz).
- Four times oversampled: at +12 dB of COLOR drive the aliasing sits 46 dB under the harmonics.
- Channels stay apart: a source hard on the left leaves the right at -121 dBFS.
- Measured with the plug-in's own test harness.
Technical notes
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