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  • Overview
  • Features
  • Customer Reviews
  • 4.9/5
    (903)
4.9/5
(903)

Get silky‑smooth sounds with a collection of “must‑have” EQs.

Breathe analog life into your vocals, drums, guitars, and synths with legendary vintage tube EQs used to sculpt over 70 years of popular music. Simply run a full mix or single instrument through these EQs and hear the stunning Pultec analog magic for yourself.

These astonishingly accurate EQs are nearly indistinguishable from the original analog hardware, giving you the same rich tones used by the producers of John Mayer, Daft Punk, Mariah Carey, and more.

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.

  • Get instant "Analog Magic" with the world's best emulations of vintage Pultec EQs
  • Sculpt fat and punchy bass, synths, and drums with the EQP‑1A
  • Experience rich midrange textures on your guitars, vocals, and keys with the MEQ‑5
  • Create retro filter effects or reduce unwanted frequencies with surgical precision using the HLF‑3C

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UAD Quick Tips
UAD Quick Tips

UAD Quick Tips

Learn how to extend low end on bass, add warmth and clarity to acoustic guitar, and punch up your drum bus with the analog tube magic of three distinct Pultec EQs.

Get the Rich Sound of the World's Most Famous EQs

Get the Rich Sound of the World's Most Famous EQs

Going far beyond all other Pultec-style EQ plug-ins, the Pultec Passive EQ Collection gives your productions the rich, musical sound of the ultra-rare vintage hardware — the culmination of the world’s most intensive modeling research.

Craft Legendary Low End: The EQP‑1A

Craft Legendary Low End: The EQP‑1A

Make confident broadstroke EQ moves and get the vibiest low‑end you've ever heard. From bass guitar and synth bass to kick drums, you'll be amazed at the tight, focused thump, with the twist of a couple knobs.

Customize Your Mids: The MEQ‑5

Customize Your Mids: The MEQ‑5

Add vibrancy and depth to vocals, guitars, and keys — the important "power region” of your mix — with the MEQ‑5's two bands of mid boost and single band of midrange dip, complete with unique filter interactions of the vintage hardware.

Get Cleaner Mixes and Effects: The HLF‑3C

Get Cleaner Mixes and Effects: The HLF‑3C

With just two controls, the HLF‑3C will give you retro, lo‑fi effects on your vocals and instruments, or let you surgically remove troublesome frequencies like excessive hiss and rumble that can build up and muddy your mixes.

Key Features

Painstaking circuit reproduction of the most popular outboard studio equalizers ever made
Must-have studio staple Pultec Equalizers: EQP-1A Program EQ, MEQ-5 Mid-Range EQ, HLF-3C Filters
Models entire electronic path, including tube amplifiers and transformers, for musical distortion
Silky, vintage highs and tight, focused lows using combined boost/cut resonant shelf dip with EQP-1A
Broad, overlapping frequency selections for fine peak and dip midrange filter control with the MEQ-5
12 dB cut filter tonal sculpting or special effects with the HLF-3C
Includes Artist Presets from Neal Cappellino, Jacknife Lee, and John Paterno

Customer Reviews

Pultec Passive EQ Collection

Overall Rating

4.9/5
(903)

M. Osipenko

November 10, 2024

UAD stands on top!

Tested against a handful of PULTEC emu's and UAD out shines them all!

H. Man

October 15, 2024

goodgood

very good!

E. Rei

October 1, 2024

A wonderful EQ!!!

This is the bee's knees of Pultec EQ plug-ins. I have tried many, and this one offers the most silky sound of them all. It works like it is explained, while the others I have tried just didn't have the "it" factor.

i. vazquez

September 30, 2024

very good

Hello my name is Ivo¡
the eqs are fantastic and very good sound .
Best Regards

A. O'Shee

August 7, 2024

Just love it

¡The sound, the magic, the everything that add to the sound!
I never have the chance to use the actual Pultec, but this is awesome to put everywhere.
Just drop it and is sounding on its own, dial it and make evrything sound even better

B. Gros

July 26, 2024

Muy buena emulación

Excelente plug in , curvas naturales como el real eq, super recomendable

M. Heaphy

July 24, 2024

The Pultec Passive EQ collection> Excellent

Way back in the 70's I remember going to a studio in NJ that had the Pultec EQ in their rack. I could not believe the sound they produced. Now UA has done an excellent job in making this series of EQ's that come the closest to that original sound I heard in that studio...This is a must have for a home studio and I could not be happier with this purchase...Wonderful and keep up the great work...Regards, Michael

J. Grandberg

July 21, 2024

Great product for the money.

I have demo'd many of the other Pultec plugins and owned the new production hardware unit. This plugin version attempts more of the tube mojo than the others, and pulls it off as well as a plugin can. As with any plugin when you start layering saturators etc the signal falls apart somewhat; which is the physics of 0's and 1's vs real analog but buying this plugin anytime it's on sale is a no brainer. Yes you can shape that "Pultec curve" somewhat with other EQ's but sometimes simplicity is best. I'm glad I bought this, hope to own another hardware piece some day!

Y. Xu

July 12, 2024

GME = God Made Equalizer

This thing save my ass, save my ball, save my time, save my life, save my love !

A. Pashka

July 10, 2024

Best Pultec Emulation!

I had the pleasure of using Pultecs at Coney Island Sound, and this is the most true emulation on the market.

t. tooley

July 9, 2024

Pultec Passive EQ

Amazing sounding EQ. Adds analogue warmth and body.

V. Melo

July 6, 2024

UaD Pultec Passive EQ collection

Definitely the best Pultec emulation I've ever used, it brings a very present analog coloring.
UaD's Pultec Passive EQ collection has already earned a place in my Mixing Chain.

d. ruiz

July 5, 2024

La mejor emulacion de Pultec, hermosos

Universal Audio siempre sorprendente, los uso en todas mis mezclas y master

E. Önbayraktar

June 29, 2024

classic

if you want to strenghten up your tracks, give them body and punch, and make them really heard in your entire mix without touching your volume fader, this is what you need..

S. Shin

June 25, 2024

Great EQ!!

Finally, I bought Pultec EQ!
This sound is so great!

D. Black

June 17, 2024

Pultec EQ bundle

Excellent EQ bundle, they're much more useful than you'd think. No regrets here. This is the best one I've heard. And it's doing the Pultec boost attenuate punch quite well.

L. walle

June 12, 2024

Top plugin

Great

d. Music

May 31, 2024

Great...!!!

If you want to shape your sound character, Pultec EQ Style is one of the best choices... Love it so much!!

R. Fukui

May 31, 2024

great plugin

Another great plugin. Thanks. I'm really enjoying music now.

J. Hijlkema

May 18, 2024

A warm blanket for your music with the precious Pultec

Just running a signal through the Pultec EQP-1A, without turning any knob, already can give my music a desired character. I love putting this on my sampled strings, for warmth and a little more energy. It also makes instruments or aux signals sound more lively, coming out of the speakers just a little more (not volume wise). The knobs do react very smooth, blending the sound in, hard to go wrong with this one. And also love the GUI's simple appearance, it keeps you focused on the jmusic. Glad UAD has these big time sales regularly where these amazing plugins are so reachable.