BiquadStack

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 Bass: OrbitKick, Hermepass, BassKit, DubCenter, DubSub, Floor, Infrasonic, FathomFive
 
-Biquads: BiquadNonLin, BiquadPlus, Biquad, BiquadDouble, BiquadOneHalf, BiquadTriple, Biquad2
+Biquads: BiquadStack, BiquadNonLin, BiquadPlus, Biquad, BiquadDouble, BiquadOneHalf, BiquadTriple, Biquad2
 
 Brightness: Air3, PlatinumSlew, DeBess, GoldenSlew, Sinew, SlewSonic, Acceleration2, DeEss, Smooth, EverySlew, Slew3, Slew2, Slew, Air2, Air, PurestAir, Acceleration, DeHiss, Hypersonic, HypersonX, Ultrasonic, UltrasonicLite, UltrasonicMed, UltrasonX
 
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 But right now… enjoy a cleaner, smoother Biquad, plus zipper noise suppression! I needed to come up with my Airwindows way to accomplish this, and got it done. More to come.
 
+############ BiquadStack is a way of making a parametric EQ out of stacked biquad filters.
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+There's already a plugin called BiquadTriple, and it's three biquads simply cascaded to do what they do with steeper roll-offs before resonance. I'd said 'this is to let you mock up effects where you're going to be using filters' and mentioned 'ways to make the Q factors more specific and staggered' but didn't really go there, at the time.
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+That time arrived in a hurry when I started really trying to work out what was so special about SSL channel strips, so I could use similar parametric bands in ConsoleX.
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+So, BiquadStack is out to let you use this right away, without waiting, and see how that goes. The way it works is, it has the same technique used to make very steep Butterworth filters. This is using specific Q factors in combination, so they end up doing a very accurate highpass or lowpass without resonance or irregularities. Typically, when you find this stuff it's carefully designed to behave correctly, and you can make steep Butterworth filters of whatever order you like, this way.
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+Using it for bandpasses instead, and adding nonlinearity, gives you a really interesting response: it's not a narrowing spike as a normal resonant filter would be, instead it's a little region of intensity that you can bring in or remove. The nonlinearity increases as you add more boost, or stays subtle at lower settings. The edges of the region develop little 'moats' to accentuate the effect: some sort of phase interference.
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+The result is what I wanted: tight and effective parametric EQ which is not 'analog modeled', it's designed to do what I'd WANT to do with analog modeling. It's about letting through the energy and sonority (or suppressing energy you don't want) rather than trying to duplicate tone colors of some hardware and muddying things up. This one is full-range, and smoothed, because there's only one of it: if you want to do sweepy automation things keep it around. There will be more, like a three-band that can fit in Airwindows Consolidated, and the full SSL-style four-band that goes in ConsoleX.
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+If you want to get a head start on what that will bring you, play with BiquadStack. If you want four bands of it on every channel in your whole mix… well so do I, and I'm working on it :)
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 ############ BiquadTriple is a handy Airwindows cascaded biquad filter: steeper roll-off before resonance.
 
 Here’s another utility plugin! This is the same as BiquadDouble, except it’s three stacked biquads. Otherwise the same: you get to set the frequency, Q etc. for all the filters in parallel. This saves time over doing three instances of Biquad, plus they’re run in series inside Console inside the plugin, so there will be a deeper tone out of this one.

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@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ BiquadDouble is a handy Airwindows cascaded biquad filter: steeper roll-off befo
 BiquadNonLin is Capacitor2, but for biquad filtering.[coll=Latest]
 BiquadOneHalf is an interleaved biquad filter like Biquad.[coll=]
 BiquadPlus is Biquad plus zipper noise suppression! For twiddling the controls.[coll=]
+BiquadStack is a way of making a parametric EQ out of stacked biquad filters.[coll=Recommended,Latest]
 BiquadTriple is a handy Airwindows cascaded biquad filter: steeper roll-off before resonance.[coll=]
 Bite is an unusual edge-maker.[coll=Latest]
 BitGlitter is an old-sampler style digital lo-fi plugin.[coll=Latest]