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QB3 is a vintage-style, 3-band EQ plug-in, with its own unique colouring and a few tricks up its sleeve. For each band you can adjust the centre frequency and gain. For the low and high shelving bands you can adjust the steepness of the slope, whilst for the mid peaking band you can adjust the bandwidth. This allows a range of sounds from steep, sharp cuts to smooth and gentle boosts.

But the Queen Bee is not a super clean and transparent plug-in. QB-3 features a pleasing combination of harmonics, saturation and low level noise to bring a subtle mojo to your sound. You also have the option to switch on a 40Hz cut to boost your low frequency headroom and a limiter to curb any peaks.



• Vintage-style, 3-band EQ
• Subtle colouring from a home-made blend of harmonics, saturation and low level noise
• Full Stereo processing
• Centre frequency adjustable for each band
• Gain adjusts positively and negatively for each band
• Low and High bands have adjustable slope, including negative ‘resonant’ like curve
• Mid band has adjustable bandwidth for narrow to wide curves
• Master gain control
• Optional 40Hz cut for low frequency optimisation
• Optional limiting on final output
• Non-linear knobs for precise control at small values, with double-click reset to default value
• 33 Presets covering many different configurations
• Updated to SE 1.1





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The download is 3.7 MB and includes the QB-3 plug-in and a pdf manual




Download demo VST (3.7 MB) - This zip contains the demo version of QB-3 to allow you to fully evaluate it before purchasing. It is fully functioning but you will get 1 second of noise every 20 seconds.

The manual is also included with the demo



The demo VST is the best way to test the capabilities of QB-3, however below are some audio demos to give you a taste of what she can do
The audio demos are purely QB-3, no other effects or processing are used. Each demo starts with the dry audio first, followed by the same audio processed by QB-3. Peak levels are matched in both dry and processed parts, so the difference you hear is the EQ effect, not "louder is better"

QB-3 acoustic - bassy
QB-3 acoustic - bigger
QB-3 acoustic - shinier
QB-3 acoustic - body
QB-3 acoustic - boomer
QB-3 acoustic - dirtier

QB-3 ballistic - bass boost
QB-3 ballistic - boomer
QB-3 ballistic - warmth
QB-3 ballistic - rounder
QB-3 ballistic - drier

QB-3 vox - warmth
QB-3 vox - telephone




Buenas Ideas - Review of QB-3 EQ: Deutsch : English



You might be asking what is the vintage mojo character colouring thing? Well, it's subtle but audible in the audio demos and the VST demos, but here is a visual representation to show you what happens to a 500Hz sine wave. Harmonics, noise, saturation and magic mojo!






QB-3 v1.1 was updated using the latest version of SynthEdit, SE 1.1
Plug-ins developed with this version of SynthEdit have no problems at all with multiple instances on multi-core processors. This problem is only related to plugins developed with SE 1.0



The presets demonstrate the range of QB-3, from subtle to extreme. These presets can sound totally different depending on the source material and may seem too subtle or could clip/distort depending on the type and level of the material that you try it on. The settings will almost always need to be adjusted to suit the audio you are running through it. So the presets are a demonstration and a starting point, but you should expect to tweak each one a little if you want to get the best out of QB-3.



QB-3 has been tested and work in Cubase 4.5.2, Sonar 8.5 LE, Ableton Live Lite 8.1.3, FL Studio 9.1, Reaper 3.6, Renoise 2.5, energyXT 2.5.2, energyXT 1.4 and Podium 2.30

You should however always test the demo versions in your choice of hosts/system before purchase



A big thanks to Jonathan Styles at SUKaudio, for the brilliant toggle graphic used on the GUI

Un grand merci to sink, for some additional presets

Many thanks too to TheOrphan for giving permission to use his vocals for some of the audio examples

Thanks for the 3rd party modules from Chris Kerry, Dave Haupt, Kelly Lynch, Daz Disley, Christian Budde and Scoofster




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