Tonelux® Tilt EQ
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Intuitive, powerful EQs to get
your mixes in shape — fast.
Designed in partnership with Softube, the Tonelux Tilt EQ plug-ins for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo hardware will speed up your EQ workflow and enhance your creativity. Designed by Paul Wolff, the former owner of the iconic API brand, the Tilt’s circuit is one of Wolff’s most ingenious creations — a super-simple, yet effective EQ tool that’s become a must-have for tracking and mixing.
now you can:
Quickly EQ mixes with a single control
Speed up your workflow to make mixing more intuitive
Easily craft a killer headphone mix, live mix, or onstage monitor mix
Skillfully dial-in sounds using smooth high and low pass filters
Enhance synths and guitars with the Tilt’s ultra-musical transformer response
Run Tilt on every channel, thanks to its low DSP load
“My new addiction is the Tonelux Tilt. How brilliant is Paul Wolff?”
– Joe Chiccarelli (Jason Mraz, Beck, The Strokes, Morrissey)Customer Reviews
s. loridan
March 4, 2015
One of the cheapest plugin... and one of the best!
We are all dreaming about plugins ( or hardware ) with a few controls and a great and sure effect. Tonelux Tilt is one of these. The "loudness" presets, with some adjusments for...
Read MoreC. Powell,
October 24, 2014
Practical!!!
Good sound! Easy to use! Doesn't hog quad card resources! And compared to other UAD EQs it's cheap! Very simple EQ that you can easily find use for.
Read MoreM. Walker
October 22, 2014
Invaluable
What a brilliant little thing, really useful so simple and quick to use. It's great on just about everything and has quickly become invaluable. If you only ever buy one plug-in make it the...
Read MoreJ. Kostolias
October 15, 2014
Tonelux Top !
Another fantastic EQ plugin from UAD , but rarely I've seen a eq as easy to use as the Tonelux® Tilt EQ Plug-in. I mean you can quickly get a good sound and good levels out of this plugin...
Read MoreS. Brown
October 13, 2014
spot on
when things are recorded properly this is often all you need to get them to sit in a mix. it sounds natural open and gentle. It can even prove useful in mastering. very good value for money...
Read MoreS. Lay
October 10, 2014
great sounding easy to use EQ
this eq is a dream. fast and easy. sounds great. good for quick mixes or rough balancing. many times I use it as a placeholder thinking I will come back and fix it later. but the plug in...
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Key Features
A one knob equalizer that quickly gets your mix in shape
Models the entire electronic path of the Tonelux Tilt hardware designed by Paul Wolff
Speeds up your workflow and makes mixing more intuitive
Forces you to use your ears instead of your eyes when mixing
Smooth high and low pass filters
Two plug-ins included — Tonelux Tilt Live excludes analog audio transformer model to conserve DSP power
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Customer Reviews
Tonelux® Tilt EQ
s. loridan
One of the cheapest plugin... and one of the best!
We are all dreaming about plugins ( or hardware ) with a few controls and a great and sure effect.
Tonelux Tilt is one of these.
The "loudness" presets, with some adjusments for my songs, are just perfects.
I was thinking a Pultec or a Manley Massive did the same thing.
Not at all.
Not so easily and so smoothly.
And the highpass and lowpass filters are not just like the others....
This plugin is, for me, really a must-have, on each track, or group, or Bus Master.
Definitively the best price-quality rate on UAD, and dispite the price, on the top 5 plugins on UAD platform for me.
Because so useful everywhere, and so simple to do it.S. Mccoy
Simple, But Not For Prime Time.
Uses very few resources and is very easy to use. Great for quick rough mixes and massive projects where using lots of resource-heavy alternatives isn't possible. However, the lack of frequency control and overall lower quality quality compared to other options, UAD and otherwise, really does—and should—limit its usefulness in a final mix. The danger will be in getting used to how easy it is to put it everywhere, tweak it, and forget about it. I will use it, but only time will tell how and how often.
C. Powell,
Practical!!!
Good sound! Easy to use! Doesn't hog quad card resources! And compared to other UAD EQs it's cheap!
Very simple EQ that you can easily find use for.M. Walker
Invaluable
What a brilliant little thing, really useful so simple and quick to use. It's great on just about everything and has quickly become invaluable. If you only ever buy one plug-in make it the tilt eq... and it's cheap !
J. Kostolias
Tonelux Top !
Another fantastic EQ plugin from UAD , but rarely I've seen a eq as easy to use as the Tonelux® Tilt EQ Plug-in. I mean you can quickly get a good sound and good levels out of this plugin and that can be practical if you are in a hurry for example, then it can be very helpfull.Also for a first glimpse with a mix that is not well balanced , you can from the beginning understand what that music is all about, then by tweaking around ,it can only get better.It's also possible to take your time and get very precise sound out of it.That's probably when you are going to get the best out of it .
The sound is wonderfull and I would strongly recomend to anyone who wants to get a very good sound from the beginning.Strongly recommended !S. Brown
spot on
when things are recorded properly this is often all you need to get them to sit in a mix. it sounds natural open and gentle. It can even prove useful in mastering. very good value for money too....
S. Lay
great sounding easy to use EQ
this eq is a dream. fast and easy. sounds great. good for quick mixes or rough balancing. many times I use it as a placeholder thinking I will come back and fix it later. but the plug in just stays there. just like all the UA plugs. Great sound.
J. Cuniberti
Very useful mastering tool.
I'm a big fan of "less is more" or "do no damage" when it comes to mastering. The tilt EQ technique is not new in mastering. It's commonly done with a high and low shelf EQ although how one adjusts the EQ's Q is critical and difficult at times. The beauty of the Tonelux Tilt EQ is in it's simplicity and sound quality. There have been songs I have mastered where I only use the Tonelux Tilt EQ and it's high pass filter. It has a way of balancing a mix without changing the mix with only a dB of tilt. Very useful tool.
W. Plummer
A biased review yet honest
Paul Wolff is one of my friends. I've known "Fix" for 35 years now.
That said, I'd tell Paul in a second if the Tilt wasn't up to what engineers and musicians expect from his designs.
We talked a good bit when he was starting Tonelux and the Tilt EQ was a major part of the first Tonelux mic preamp. When he told me that he was going to enter the plugin world via Softube, and now UA, the Tilt made perfect sense. Simplicity plus high quality is essential with the tools we use to make music. Having too many choices can derail the creative process. As engineers, mixers and musicians it is wonderful when a tool becomes available that enhances our drive to get to the music. The Tilt does that job very well.S. Duignan
Super simple, super useful.
Bought this purely to make use of some free vouchers. Great little plug-in, very clean sounding, very simple and works well when you just need a gentle rebalancing of mixes or individual tracks. DSP light and easy to deploy across lots of channels.
Worth taking the time to understand the various parameters fully, great results can be had without deploying more complex/DSP intensive EQs.
Has breathed some lovely sparkle into previously mixed projects from the bad old (pre-UAD) days!
I'm only keeping a star back because the day after my purchase the Roland Space Echo dropped to the same price point - In all honesty I would have bought that first, but hey, can't complain at what is essentially a really useful freebie. Thanks UAD.S. Hurtow
How can utter simplicity be so incredibly effective?
At first glance, it looks like something noble, humble and simple. Once switched on it is so incredibly effective! It is like the filter that should be on every track before I go to EQ. Such an amazing determinant of the tonal quality of each instrument and voice. Low occupation of DSP usage on my PCI card also means I can run many instances! Fantastic plug-in!
E. Ho
good but normal
it's a good EQ plug-in but it's not a special one.
J. Smyth
Have to ask
If this review actually gets posted, I was just curious, then not even using it or owning it (yet) I can write a review.. So that would mean that reviews mean nothing.. Technically, pun intended!
J. West
non existent
I bought this plug but it is unavailable . UA does not say what OS versions are required for various plugs so if your OS is not supported, you wasted your money.
I use OS 6.8 with an older MacPro and evidently, this plug needs a later OS to use it.
US needs to be up front with this. How hard is it to have a system analyzer that prevents one from buying a plug you can't use? Come on.....R. Narvaez Rodriguez
Simple but great!
I never thought a so simple eq would be so versatile. It sounds fantastic even when you push it to the limits. You can boost low, mid or high frequencies without getting any undesirable sound. And with the high-pass and low-cut filters, it gives you the possiblity to be more precise for the frequency range you are interested in. Try it and you will love it.
N. Reygate
Simple and fast !
A simple to use little EQ for quickly refining your tone on mix down without using heaps of your valuable DSP resources.
R. Gun
useless
I got it for low but it is not worth anything. Never used it.
The idea is great but any DAW tool will do that too.
So that is it good for? Sound, where is it?P. Aleksashin
Tonelux Tilt Eq
Bery clean sound! Good for group instruments!
UAD User
sometimes you just wanna twist one thing to fix your problems
this is great for when you're in the middle of it and you're just like "man can i just tilt this whole track toward the bright side really quickly?" or "can i just warm this bass up a bit by doing one thing instead of three things?"
A. Heinzelmann
Good Soundig EQ
You can use the Tonelux Tilt EQ Plugin on every Channel and you may be satisfied. For me it´s a great Tool in everyday´s use. Try it.
