Manley® Massive Passive EQ
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Get mixes and masters with sweet tube clarity.
Included Versions
UAD Native
Runs on your Mac or PC without UA hardware.Apollo Realtime & UAD‑2
Runs accelerated on Apollo interfaces and UAD‑2 hardware.UAD Native plug-ins run on both macOS 10.15 Catalina or newer and Windows 10 and 11. Go to our UA Support page for system requirements.
- Expertly shape tracks and masters with Manley’s ultra-boutique tube EQ
- Dial in punch, air, sizzle, and clarity without adding harshness
- Add weight and heft to an entire mix without adding mud
- Harness complex band interaction and tube amp distortion for organic, musical textures
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UAD Quick Tips
Learn how to add clarity to a muddy acoustic, give body and weight to a drum bus, and add pro sheen to your entire mix with the tube-driven Manley Massive Passive EQ.
Add Effective, Musical Tone Shaping
The two-channel, four-band Manley Massive Passive tube EQ utilizes design strengths from choice console, parametric, graphic, and Pultec EQs — delivering sweet curves with unparalleled clarity and headroom. The Manley Massive Passive EQ plug-in expertly emulates these tone-shaping elements, giving you the same natural and organic sound as the hardware.
Experience Finished Pro Productions
The Manley Massive Passive EQ plug-in gives you a Standard version with continuous bandwidth adjustment, and a Mastering version with 16 steps of easily recallable selections. Perfect for subtle or broad strokes to individual instruments or whole mixes, now you can add presence and sizzle without harshness to drums and vocals, or add weight and heft to an entire mix with clear, punchy bottom end.
“I can't hear any difference between my hardware Manley Massive Passive and the UAD plug-in on any instrument I've A/B'd. It's that good.”
– Michael Brauer (Rolling Stones, Coldplay)“The bottom-line to me is, the UAD Massive Passive sounds @#$%ing great! This is my new buss EQ.”
– Ryan Hewitt (Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Avett Brothers)“It's amazing how accurately the UAD Manley Massive Passive EQ captures the subtle EQ sweeps of the hardware. ”
– Jason Schweitzer (Eminem, Busta Rhymes, Ciara)Customer Reviews
k. Ioannou
February 7, 2022
Verey transparent holy grail eq
This eq is just amaZing what ever you do it enhances the spectrum in sensitive way
Read MoreJ. Loureiro
January 17, 2022
One of The Best Eq for Mix Bus
I love this eq it is so smooth and never sound harsh even if you push it in extremes it always sounds musical.
Read MoreU. PATAPENKA
January 11, 2022
one of the best booster eq I ever seen.
Brilliant, but heavy for DSP.
Read Moreo. martinez lopez
January 11, 2022
Manley Massive Passive
Grrat Eq for mix bus, I like so much!!
Read MoreL. Deane
January 5, 2022
Lama Steve
On a mix just turn the knobs till you find what you want to boost or cut. Then see if the shelf or bell works it's magic ! Use...
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Customer Reviews
Manley® Massive Passive EQ
k. Ioannou
Verey transparent holy grail eq
This eq is just amaZing what ever you do it enhances the spectrum in sensitive way
J. Loureiro
One of The Best Eq for Mix Bus
I love this eq it is so smooth and never sound harsh even if you push it in extremes it always sounds musical.
U. PATAPENKA
one of the best booster eq I ever seen.
Brilliant, but heavy for DSP.
o. martinez lopez
Manley Massive Passive
Grrat Eq for mix bus, I like so much!!
L. Deane
Lama Steve
On a mix just turn the knobs till you find what you want to boost or cut. Then see if the shelf or bell works it's magic ! Use ears not number or lights ! Move to the center and control gain, high and low pass ! Move it around in the plugin order and find the spot ! Done.
A. nicolas
resizeable plugin 2022 you can do it !
can you update all your plugs and make the GUI resizable like the console , you can do it on the console so why not on the plugs, would be nice of you ;) , otherwise plugs are cool
S. Harris
Great but heavy on CPU
can't compare to the hardware, but sounds smooth and refined. only drawback is the amount of cpu it uses.
N. Merrick
Manley Massive Passive
I love all of the Manley products!
D. Chin-Sang
Massive eq
Has very good control and can shape well. Not exactly the same overall tone of the real Manley.
C. Hunter
What!!!!
What was I waiting for....amazing!!!! Just get it!!!!
R. Stokes
Works with console one
With the update I can now have my tape, massive passive and vari mu on my console one as one channel strip. Very powerful.
C. Szekely
Love the sound, UI way too small
I bought the Massive Passive EQ plug-in to use for color EQ on a master chain. I instantly loved the sound I was getting out of some of the presets and found it relatively easy to tweak. I compared it to a lot of different EQ plug-ins including the Chandler Curve Bender but preferred the overall sound of the Manley. (I did, however, end up buying and using the FabFilter Pro-Q3 exclusively for both color and corrective EQ-ing in my master chain because it was just so very surgical.) One negative for the Manley is that the user interface is WAY too small for how many details are on the panel. I find this to be true with all UAD plugs and UA desperately needs to start offering resizability. I probably won’t use the Manley how or as much as I had originally intended, but I will more than likely use it on certain instrument channels similar to how I use the Pultec on my vocal channels. I probably wouldn’t have bought it had I settled first on the FF Pro-Q3 but I’m glad I have it for options.
G. Tasnádi
Massive Passive
Best colorizing EQ ive ever used.
D. Davis
Really great sounding EQ for mixbus and other uses. Manley is cool.
What more can be said, great tone. The top end of this EQ is really cool sounding, as is the thump of the low end. Really like both versions. I bet I could just run the signal through this plug without turning a knob and stuff would sound better. lol.
A. Byallo
This is the secret sauce on all my tracks
Unbelievable sound. I put this gently on the master buss and it just brings everything to life in a very sexy, velvety way. Secret sauce, no doubt. One of my favorite plugins.
O. Olajide
A must have for mix and mastering Engineers
This has become the go to mastering Eq plugin for us in Sophia Studios. It brings to life elements within the mix and makes vocals to be upfront. We have bypassed one of our outboard Eq for this plugin! All we can say is that it is wonderful, I hope one day we will be able to AB it with the real hardware unit it was emulated on
B. Vladimir
I love it!
I use it for mastering. Must have!
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A must-have for Mastering and for Rock/Metal songs
Remarkable EQ, I'm blown away. This is a must-have for Mastering, and also if you mix a lot of Rock & Metal like I do. I've experimented with many different digital EQs from many different companies and whenever I'd try adding boosts (e.g., anything maybe 300Hz or greater) to distorted guitars (or to a mix containing distorted guitars), the resulting sound was kind of harsh/gritty. Not the Manley EQ. This is an amazing technological accomplishment by Universal Audio.
M. Johannes
Massive Passive Active
A cool tool for home & professional recording studio for the acceptable price !!!
K. Beleznay
Good EQ from Manley.
A good tool for the right task! I love!