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The veq 5 Black Friday deal is 34% off at $19 until Nov 22, 2026, on Black Rooster Audio's vintage mid-range equalizer plugin for vocals, guitars and keys.
The VEQ-5 is an EQ plugin inspired by one of the best-known equalizers in studio history. It works on the power range of the spectrum, from 200Hz to 7kHz.
The maker says it is aimed at cleaning up and sweetening vocals. It is also said to do a good job on guitars and keys.
Black Rooster Audio uses a real-time, SPICE-type, component-based circuit simulation. The maker says this captures the feel of the analog original in all its nuances.
The parts of the circuit that shape the sound are all modeled:
The DSP code is pipelined with the SSE2 instruction set. The maker says this keeps performance as high as possible despite very complex computations.
Aliasing artifacts are attenuated with a low-latency, linear-phase Dolph-Chebyshev poly-phase design.
Oversampling adjusts itself to your session's sample rate. Black Rooster Audio says this saves CPU while keeping the sound as transparent as possible.
The VEQ-5 VST comes in VST, VST3, AU and AAX versions. On the Mac side it supports M1 and M2 chips as well as Intel Core CPUs. The interface supports high pixel density displays on Mac OSX and Windows.
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If you work on Windows, the manual tells you whether your DAW handles HighDPI.
Yes. The VEQ-5 Black Friday deal takes 34% off, bringing the Black Rooster Audio EQ plugin to $19. The offer ends Nov 22, 2026.
The VEQ-5 works on the power range from 200Hz to 7kHz. The maker says that makes it a fit for cleaning up and sweetening vocals, and that it also does a good job on guitars and keys.
On Mac it runs in VST, VST3, AU or AAX hosts (64-bit), with Apple Silicon M1/M2 and Intel Core support. On Windows it runs in VST, VST3 or AAX hosts. Windows 7 or newer is required.
Its oversampling adjusts automatically to your session's sample rate, which the maker says saves CPU while keeping the sound transparent. The DSP code is also pipelined with the SSE2 instruction set for performance.
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