Whats new in BLACKQ – Version 2 ?
A NEW AND IMPROVED VERSION OF BLACK Q – V2, NOW FEATURES OVERLAPPING BANDS AND NEW FREQUENCY RANGES AS WELL AS OVERSAMPLING FOR MORE “ANALOG” BEHAVIOR
The Philosophy behind Smooth Tube EQ
At Tone – Empire we are obsessed with “Sound”
We recently brought a vintage unit to life by building the hardware version over 6 months, changing tubes, transformers and signal paths.
In this quest, we build a ” Golden Unit ” with “Super Powers” 🙂
We had the idea then to model this circuit with 2 paths involving sowter and lundahl transformers and some choices of vintage valves.
The result was simply “Stunning”
Then combining this with a versatile EQ Design, we developed a monster Tube EQ in the DSP world, a kind of hybrid with a sound going from ” Clean and Silky ” to full-on ” Crunchy ” sounding saturations.
TYPE A gives you a great “FULL” sound including a “Big” Low end and TYPE B gives you a crunchier mid/high enhanced sound.
These choices make it possible to use this eq on a variety of sound materials from Drums to vocals, Piano, string instruments, Bass, Synths and as a mastering unit itself.
The next part was to make this plugin as processor efficient as possible so it could be used as a tracking plugin with very low latency and also allow one to run multiple instances of it effortlessly.
In Black Q Version 2, we have also introduced ” OVERSAMPLING “, now it has up to 8x oversampling option if your system can take that CPU LOAD, Select your oversampling choice to get the more ” ANALOG ” Sound.
We are now very keen to see our customer’s reactions to Black Q V2!
PROMO VIDEO
Black Q is Dripping with Vintage analog tube tone !!!
A wonderful EQ with that vintage vibe from back in the day.
It just adds so much color & character to anything i put thru it with a nice selection of start-up presets
for Mastering, Drums, Gtr’s, Pno’s, Vocals, Synth’s, etc….
its a steal at this price !!
tone-empire once again hits it outta the park !!
Love it !!!!!
Plugin Formats:
MAC OSX – VST3/AU/AAX – 64 bit
WINDOWS – VST3/ AAX – 64 bit
PC/MAC : Windows 10 or later*. / OSX 10.13 or later (Intel/M1 Native Supported) ( NOT TESTED ON MacOS Ventura* )
Minimum System Requirements:
Intel i3 / AMD Ryzen or equivalent
2 GB RAM / 300 MB HD
Screen resolution: 1024×768
VST3, AU, or AAX 64-bit host
Note (A)
1. SOME ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE MIGHT BE ALERT WHILE INSTALLING/DOWNLOADING THE FILES, KINDLY IGNORE THOSE WARNINGS. Those are False positives. We have tested it on Norton Anti-Virus, and the Installers are clean. 2. FL Studio users may experience the crashing of DAW while using Oversampling feature.
Note (B)
M1 Mac users currently using Logic Pro (10.7.2 and above ) or Ableton (11.1) please use ( OSX -M1) . All other Daws please use the regular installer ( OSX )
Installation
OSX:
Download the BlackQ-v2.pkg file
Double click on the package zip and click open
Follow the instructions to install the plug-in(s)
Windows:
Extract BlackQ-V2.zip and BlackQ-V2.exe
Follow the instructions to install the plug-in(s)
Setup and Registration:
Authorizing Tone Empire Products is really easy too.
When you open the product for the first time it will open in trial mode. It will ask you for your authorization code ( You only need to do this once for the product ). You can continue in trial mode by selecting ” Demo: from the Top bar.
In “Trial Mode” the plugin will work as a fully functional software for up to 15 days. After the trial period is over, the plugin will stop working.
To make the plugin work again, Please click the “Get Serial” button on the registration window. This will take you to the product page on our Tone Empire website, Where you may purchase the full version of the plugin.
