Eventide has released SplitEQ, an advanced equalization plugin offering the company’s patented Structural Split technology in a new tool for corrective and creative rebalancing, enhancing, repairing, and widening any musical signal or other audio source.SplitEQ is a parametric EQ with eight bands of precision musical filters. The Structural Split engine divides the incoming audio into separate transient and tonal streams that feed the eight bands in a design intended to make common EQ problems easier to solve, even in complex mixes, while opening new musical possibilities.
“We’re incredibly proud of what our developers have accomplished,” states Eventide founder Richard Factor. “They’ve built on the Structural Split technology at the heart of our earlier plugin, Physion, to do something truly groundbreaking. SplitEQ is a fundamentally new type of musical tool.”
SplitEQ is designed to take the sound of structure into account. It splits any sound into two streams, mimicking human perception of its tonal and transient elements. After that, the user can cut or boost only that part of the sound. In addition, it can be used to add dimension to mixes through its independent left/right and mid/side panning options.
In addition, the new plugin offers real-time spectrum analyzer so users can see and hear the sound — solo only the transients, a single band, or only the transients on a single band. The analyzer can also be used to track down problematic resonances or transients by displaying the tonal and transient streams separately.
