- Product: Insert EQ 33
- Developer: Insert Audio
- Type: Five-band tone shaping with clean curves and analog-style movement
- Version: 0.2.1
- Format: VST3, AAX
- Requirements: Windows 10 or later
- Source: store.insertapp.io/plugins#insert-eq-33
Insert EQ 33 is a five-band tone-shaping EQ built around fast musical moves, analog-style response, and practical mix workflow. It is designed to sit naturally on tracks, buses, stems, and the mix bus: broad enough for quick tonal shaping, but with enough control for more focused corrective work when needed.
The plugin has a clean EQ path for predictable curves, plus an Analog mode that makes the EQ react more like a circuit being driven. Input level, band gain, Analog Drive, Amp Stage, Color, and Trafo all let you decide how clean or animated the EQ should feel.
It can stay subtle and hi-fi, or become more driven, dense, and reactive when pushed.
Main Features
- Five-band EQ: Body, Weight, Presence, Focus, and Air
- Clean and Analog EQ modes
- Analog Drive follows input level and band boost amount
- Extended Drive for denser op-amp style response
- Amp Stage for a detailed circuit-style drive path
- Trafo and Color stages for additional analog tone
- HQ/Auto oversampling for cleaner high-frequency analog drive
- Stereo, Dual Mono, and Mid/Side graph/editing modes
- Mono-aware processing path for lower CPU use on mono tracks
- Input and Output Trim with optional inverse linking
- Shift-drag temporary inverse trim linking
- Delta Listen for hearing only the processed difference
- Built-in FFT analyser with speed, block size, and musical smoothing
- Graph scale options: +/-12 dB, +/-6 dB, and +/-3 dB
- Right-click graph and node menus for fast scale and band options
- LF and HF bands switch between Shelf and Peak shapes
- Mouse-wheel Q control on supported graph nodes
- Momentary band solo by holding Shift over graph nodes
- A/B comparison with A>B copy
- Compact view, factory presets, and built-in user manual