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Harrison 32C / 32C SE Channel EQ
Add the colorful four-band EQ of a legendary hit-making console.
- Shape your mixes with the same colorfully smooth EQ used on Thriller
- Polish lead vocals and drums with silky analog texture
- Expertly sculpt electric guitars to sit in a mix
- Harness presets from legendary engineer Bruce Swedien
- Accentuate resonance on electric pianos, strings, and more
- Intuitively craft kick drums and overheads
Add the Colorful Four-Band EQ of a Legendary Hit-Making Console
What They Say
Bruce Swedien
Michael Jackson
Hans Zimmer
The Dark Knight, Gladiator
Dave Eringa
Manic Street Preachers, Kylie Minogue
Frequently Asked Questions
The Harrison 32C Channel EQ is worth it if you want a fast, musical four-band EQ that adds analog character while you shape a sound. At $99 it is one of the more affordable ways into a licensed console EQ, and it covers vocals, drums, electric guitar, keys, and full mixes. Its curves are broad and forgiving, so you can push them further than a surgical digital EQ before a track starts to sound processed.
The Harrison 32C Channel EQ models a specific console channel EQ, including the circuit behavior that gives its curves their shape and their interaction with each other. Universal Audio developed it with Harrison Consoles Ltd. and the late engineer Bruce Swedien, working from Swedien's own Harrison 32 Series desk. The boosts and cuts respond like the hardware rather than like textbook filter math, which is why small moves tend to land where you want them.
The Harrison 32C Channel EQ models the four-band channel EQ from the Harrison 32 Series console owned by engineer Bruce Swedien, the desk behind Michael Jackson's Thriller. Universal Audio built the plug-in in partnership with Harrison Consoles Ltd. and Swedien himself. The 32 Series is known for a bright, open top end and present upper mids, and that is the character the plug-in carries.
The Harrison 32C Channel EQ reproduces the frequency response and circuit behavior of the original 32C channel EQ, developed alongside Bruce Swedien with his own console as the reference. Engineers who know the desk point to the same crystalline top end and forward upper mids. Universal Audio models the analog stages rather than approximating the curves, so the EQ colors the signal even at modest settings.
The Harrison 32C Channel EQ gives you four bands of broad, interactive EQ that shape tone rather than surgically correct it. The high band opens air on vocals and overheads, the two mid bands place guitars and keys in a crowded arrangement, and the low band adds weight to kick and bass. The bands overlap, so combined moves create curves you would not get from four independent filters.
The Harrison 32C Channel EQ runs on UAD-2 DSP hardware, which keeps its processing off your computer's CPU. On an Apollo interface, that also means you can monitor and record through the EQ in realtime with near-zero latency. Your plug-in load sits on the interface instead of competing with your DAW, so performance stays predictable as the session grows.
The Harrison 32C Channel EQ works on macOS 11 Big Sur and newer, and on Windows 10 64-bit and Windows 11. Both platforms run the same plug-in and the same presets, so a session opens the same way on either system. You install and authorize it through UA Connect alongside the rest of your UAD library.
Yes, the Harrison 32C Channel EQ requires Universal Audio DSP hardware, either an Apollo audio interface or a UAD-2 Accelerator such as a Satellite or PCIe card. The plug-in runs on that hardware rather than your computer, so there is no CPU-only mode. Licenses follow the hardware, which means you can move your interface between computers and your plug-ins travel with it.
The Harrison 32C Channel EQ works in any DAW that supports VST3, AU, or AAX 64 formats. That covers the major recording platforms on both macOS and Windows, including LUNA. You insert it on a channel like any other EQ, and the UAD Meter shows how much DSP you have left.
The Harrison 32C Channel EQ works on almost any source, though it is best known on vocals, drums, and electric guitars. Lead vocals pick up a silky top end, snares and overheads sharpen without turning brittle, and guitars find their place in a dense mix with a single midrange tweak. It also flatters electric pianos, strings, and brass, where its resonant mids bring out body.
You can track through the Harrison 32C Channel EQ on an Apollo interface using the Console application, monitoring in realtime with near-zero latency. Print the EQ to the recording, or keep the source clean and use it for monitoring only. Committing tone on the way in is how the original console channel worked, and it saves you decisions later.
The Harrison 32C Channel EQ includes presets built by engineer Bruce Swedien, who worked on the original console for decades. They cover common starting points including lead vocals, kick, overheads, and electric guitar. Treat them as a first move rather than a finished setting, since the right curve always depends on the source in front of you.
DSP-based UAD plug-ins are still worth buying because they do something native processing cannot: run at near-zero latency on dedicated hardware while you record. Computers keep getting faster, but the moment you load enough plug-ins the buffer size goes up and monitoring latency follows it. UAD DSP holds that latency down and keeps your CPU free for instruments and editing, which is why the platform still anchors a lot of hybrid studios.
The Harrison 32C Channel EQ is available on its own for $99 and as part of larger UAD bundles, including the pick-your-own UAD Select bundles. If you already own UAD DSP hardware, adding it is a matter of authorizing the license to your system. Everything then lives in one library in UA Connect alongside the rest of your UAD plug-ins.
The Harrison 32C Channel EQ is a UAD DSP plug-in, so it does not have a UAD native version and is not part of the UAD Spark subscription. Running it requires an Apollo interface or a UAD-2 Accelerator. If you want an EQ that runs on your computer's CPU with no hardware attached, UAD native plug-ins are the place to look, and many of them are included with UAD Spark.
You can demo the Harrison 32C Channel EQ free for 14 days with full functionality. With the UAD software installed and your DSP hardware connected, click Start Demo on the plug-in and use it in your DAW as you normally would. That is enough time to put it on a real mix instead of a test tone.