elysia museq 2-Channel Equalizer

The Elysia Museq is a 2-channel analogue equaliser, completely based on discrete class-A circuitry, with active bandpasses, resonance high and low pass filters, and a boost/cut mode. This analogue EQ is a combination of premium sound shaping capabilities with optimally matched parameters and the highest quality components, enabling the user to find musical results quickly and easily. The five bands and their ample gain ranges as well as some special features make sure that the museq can be used flexibly in any tracking or mixing situation, and the stepped controllers are easily repeatable for mix bus or mastering applications.

Each of the two channels offers three parametric bands with a two-position switchable Q. The outer bands per side are low/high shelf designs which can be separately switched into a low/high cut mode. In the cut mode, a resonance peak keeps the knee frequency from sounding overly damped, reminiscent of inductor circuits in classic designs. Each of the five gain controllers per side can be altered from boost to cut with a single switch, for easy location of problem frequencies and twice the number of available gain steps. Each channel has a switchable option for adding strong harmonic colour of the signal, making two EQs in one.

The circuit design of the museq is 100% discrete analog technology. All signal processing is realised with single transistors in permanent class-A mode, and even the power supply is composed of fully discrete circuits. An oversized transformer, selected capsuled conductive plastic potentiometers as well as special current feedback amplifiers are part of the technical refinement. The combination of these elements aims at maximum signal quality and guarantees clean and powerful sound characteristics even when extreme settings are used.

The main features of the Elysia Museq include:

• 100% Discrete Class-A
• Active Bandpasses with FETs
• Resonance High & Low Pass Filters
• Parallel Filter Design
• Warm Mode
• Pure Transparency Path
• Boost/Cut Mode
• Switchable Filter Quality
• Stepped & Matched Potentiometers: 23 steps
• Frequency response: <10 Hz - >200 kHz (-0.2 dB)
• Low Band (Shelf Filter): 9 - 200 Hz (+/-15 dB)
• Bottom Band (Peak Filter): 18 - 400 Hz (+/-15 dB)
• Middle Band (Peak Filter): 150 Hz - 3.5 kHz (+/-15 dB)
• Top Band (Peak Filter): 700 Hz - 16 kHz (+/-15 dB)
• High Band (Shelf Filter): 1.8 - 35 kHz (+/-15 dB)
• Noise floor: 20 Hz - 20 kHz (A-weighted): -91.6 dBu
• Dynamic range: (20 Hz - 22 kHz) 119 dB
• Maximum level: (Input & Output) +27 dBu
• Impedance:
  • Input: 10 kOhm
  • Output : 68 Ohm