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Q American Series
VERSION 1.1.1
Q American Series Emulates Legendary API 550A, 550B and 560 Vintage American Console Equalizers*
Q American Series consist of API 550A, API 550B and API 560 analog modelling. They are unbelievably fast because they are pure DSP algorithms. You get renowned high-quality sound with the right curves.
They have modern, easy-to-use user interfaces. You’ll love their aggressive structure and proportional Q feature.
QA, QB and QG vintage American console equalizer plug-ins support VST, VST3, AU and AAX plugin formats.
*API is a trademark of Automated Process,Inc. the originator of the 550a, 550b, 560 and is not affiliated with Volko Audio LLC
$199.99
I know an EQ is great when I simply put it on a track, don’t make any adjustments, and the track instantly sounds better. That’s what the Q American Series equalizers do for me! Very smooth, transparent highs, clear defined mids, punchy and warm low end without mud. Knobs and faders have nice ballistics and the EQ’s “behave” like their much sought-after hardware equivalents. And they look like 500 series “lunchbox” units too – a nice psychological benefit. Great product!
I have been mixing several projects with Q American Series and I’m pretty much loving them. One of the projects I’m working on had a very unpleasantly and poorly recorded, bass heavy sounding, male vocal. I chose some other EQs to remove that low end. I wasn’t quite happy with either of my choices, then I reached for QA, just to check how QA will handle it. And I was pleased to hear how it nailed the task! Just one knob rotation and boom, that nasty low-end crap is gone. Great Sound!
New Better User Interface
Easy On Your Eyes
The equalizer will keep you running tirelessly even after hours of hard work. You will not be able to help yourself from falling in love with it!
Harmonious Marriage of API 550a
Modern User Interface
You work long hours and deserve better user interfaces without compromising from the sound quality.
Fast, Intuitive and Highly Responsive
Unleash your inner mad scientist with the QA plug-in and add a special note to
your music.
Quality Comes First
The QA vintage equalizer plug-in is highly optimized to keep your CPU under low stress, while still maintaining top quality sound output.
QA Features
- Low Frequency Shelving/Peaking.
- Five selectable center frequencies: 50Hz, 100Hz, 200Hz, 300Hz and 400Hz.
- Mid Frequency Peaking
- Five selectable center frequencies: 400Hz, 800Hz, 1.5kHz, 3kHz and 5kHz.
- High Frequency Shelving/Peaking
- Five selectable center frequencies: 5kHz, 7kHz, 10kHz, 12.5kHz and 15kHz.
- Band Pass Filter: Fixed bandwidth: 50Hz to 15kHz.
- The amount of boost or attenuation is continuously variable from -12 dB to 12 dB.
QB Features
- Low Frequency Shelving/Peaking.
- Seven selectable center frequencies: 30Hz, 40Hz, 50Hz, 100Hz, 200Hz, 300Hz and 400Hz.
- Low Mid Frequency Peaking.
- Seven selectable center frequencies: 75Hz, 150Hz, 180Hz, 240Hz, 500Hz, 700Hz and 1kHz.
- High Mid Frequency Peaking.
- Seven selectable center frequencies: 800Hz, 1.5kHz, 3kHz, 5kHz, 8kHz, 10kHz and 12.5kHz.
- High Frequency Shelving/Peaking.
- Selectable filter type: Shelving or Peaking. Seven selectable center frequencies: 2.5kHz, 5kHz, 7kHz, 10kHz, 12.5kHz, 15kHz and 20kHz.
- The amount of boost or attenuation is continuously variable from -12 dB to 12 dB.
QG Features
The QG plug-in is a ten-band fixed frequency graphic equalizer divided into one octave increments. The center frequencies of each band are set at 31Hz, 63Hz, 125Hz, 250Hz, 500Hz, 1kHz, 2kHz, 4kHz, 8kHz and 16kHz. The amount of boost or attenuation is continuously variable from -12 dB to 12 dB on all bands.
QA, QB and QG Common Features
- Extremely High Processing Efficiency.
- “Proportional Q” narrows filter bandwidth.
- Proprietary topology which is optimized for low latency, low noise and high dynamic range.
- Built-in reference-quality upsampling algorithm which can be enabled at sampling frequencies 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz to achieve bell shape symmetry at high frequencies.
- Supports sampling frequencies up to 384 kHz.
- Clickless parameter update.
System Requirements
- 80 MB free hard disk space
- Windows 7 or newer, 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor with 2 GB RAM
- Mac OS X 10.7 or higher, Intel Processor with 2 GB RAM
- Display capable of 1024×768
- VST, VST3, AU or AAX capable host program
- ASIO supporting sound card (recommended)
5 reviews for Q American Series
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Bob Davodian (verified owner) –
I had a chance to test out The “Q American Series” by Volko Audio. They state that this series digitally recreates the legendary API 550a, 550b and 560 vintage American console equalizer counterparts. It seems they accomplished that task with a touch of their own character. All three of these Equalizers share the API aggressive, high mid-forward sound. However with Volko Audio’s rendition, they achieved partly a bigger sound and notably, more aggressive harmonic over-tones, in a pleasing way. I think this EQ series can be utilized for drum and bass guitar shaping especially. Each EQ, while retaining the API sound, also offers its own unique sonic foot print.
QA – overall tighter, tad warmer sound
QB – more open top end than “A,” and more sheen
QG – some where between those 2 with it’s own mid range focus
Ridvan Kucuk (verified owner) –
First of all i used orginal API EQs and i have and 550B clone.I compared with what i hear.It’s really aggressive as API EQs.Even only 2dB boost or cut gives you character of real hardware.Tried with kick, snare, overhead, bass guitar and e.guitar.You can get soft or hard effect from these EQs.And i tested with gaussian noise to see curves.It has real proportional Q as hardware.With only 2 or 4 dB you can get punch of centre freq and neighbor freqs.Adding really nice color.With higher gain values, you can get high Q but it’s really sounding musical.Normally high Q values sounding ugly but with these EQs, you will get smooth results.These EQs have what orginal hardwares have.
Aytekin Özer (verified owner) –
Clear and useful interface with rich tone color possibility. A remarkable handy software. Perfect.
Jesper Brunnström (verified owner) –
I like API coloured gear, and these are really great! QB is most suited to me, workflow-wise, but they all sound as good. The analog modeling helps most tracks sit better in the mix, and adds interesting colour.
rick drumss (verified owner) –
they are just an amazing plugins!!. highly recommended. i don`t have an Api hardware but i tested against other plugins and i`m really impressed with the high quality and tone color of their sound.