CERTIFIED GROUND UP DESIGN
The new BAX EQ Plugin is a total ground-up redesign that brings the life, vibrance, and dimensionality of the Dangerous Music hardware into your DAW.
Use the BAX to add warmth and gravitas to kick and bass, bring shimmer and air to strings and pads, place vocals in vivid 3D relief, or help an entire mix fall together naturally.
Plugin technology has evolved since 2013. So we demanded a better BAX EQ plugin; which required the ears behind the original hardware.
If you’ve ever adjusted the bass and treble on a hi-end stereo system, a boom box or car stereo, then you’ve used a Baxandall EQ. The Dangerous BAX EQ is the first professional, stand-alone EQ to leverage the famous Baxandall curves, and our version, designed by our own legendary designer Chris Muth, has become an essential classic among mixing, mastering and tracking engineers. It’s so loved, in fact, that most are leaving it patched into their audio path full time where it sweetens and deepens all walks of music day in, day out.
MOST POPULAR EQ
In a category all its own, the BAX EQ will compliment any studio configuration. Outstanding in a mastering rig, on a whole mix or in any tracking chain, the BAX EQ lets you effortlessly sweeten and deepen any music — like the best bass-treble controls you’ve ever used.
EFFORTLESS RESULTS
Since this is as close a digital version as we could conjure from the analog hardware we took some liberties, The LINK button controls all stereo functions simultaneously.
LINK
The bass and treble shelves found on most professional EQs introduce phase delay and other audible artifacts, sometimes called “color.” The BAX EQ’s shelves maintain phase coherence, and because it is built from the same ultra-high-grade components we use in all our equipment, the BAX EQ does not change the characteristics of the original sound. This is the ineffable paradox of real analog transparency: you have the ability to make profound changes without substantially altering the original sonic characteristics. Rather than adding more color, you’ll hear the original colors more beautifully, more openly and more powerfully, no matter how far you push it.
TRANPARENCY PARADOX
As with all of our products, the BAX EQ incorporates a sophisticated circuit design, uncompromising quality, and elegant, straightforward use. Made in USA.
DANGEROUS PHILOSOPHY
The Mid / Side button turns the left channel into a center control and the right as a sides control. Now you can affect a drum kit’s center heft separately from the overhead’s air or crack open a mix.
MID / SIDE
Beyond the simple shelf controls, the BAX EQ is equipped with sophisticated filtering options that vastly expand its versatility. The cut filters on either end of the spectrum dial out unneeded frequencies that will be boosted at the far end of the shelves. On the low end, you can cut below 12 Hz, where headroom-eating, infrasonic rumble and DC-offset live. On the high end, you can dial out ultra-sonics like 70 kHz that can carry out-of-band noise that translates as harshness in many A/D converters. And when you start playing the cut filters against the shelves, a whole world of unique tone-shaping opens up within the audible frequency band – sounds you wont get anywhere else.
SOPHISTICATED FILTERING
Bypassing wordclock will introduce micro jitter and with it, intricate imperfections. This is simply one more tool for exploration and originality.
WORDCLOCK
We added the output control to level match against your unaffected signal or simply to provide more gain from a different source, since everything has a character.