The Lo Mid band is one of the ugliest EQs I’ve heard, and Hi Mid should be relabeled ‘crunch.’ Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Inserted on a Rhodes-type electric piano in a very dense mix, Tone Shaper helped pop out the track where previously it was lost. I backed it down to “-7,” making the effect more subtle. The default setting for the “direct” slider is 0.
On drum overheads Tone Shaper added presence and sparkle without letting the drums take over the mix. This was my least favorite of the collection, probably because the interface is not calibrated and I didn’t really know what it was doing (thoughI certainly could hear what is was doing).
MANNY MARROQUIN TONE SHAPER PLUS
The Tone Shaper is a parallel compressor with four bands plus EQ and a few “secret ingredients” used to modify the tone of a track. Ditto for acoustic guitar which also benefitted from a few dB added at 320 or 400 Hz. I typically stay away from boosting in the region between 200 and 400 Hz but the MM EQ’s lower-midband is so smooth that you can boost in that region to add weight to a snare drum without causing a midrange bloat. Unlike a lot of EQs, you can boost in the lower mids without causing harm to a sound. On a kick drum +2 at 110 Hz, -4 at 400 Hz and +6 at 5 kHz was wonderful. The high- and high-mid bands can be used to brighten up strings without making them screechy(though things get a bit crunchy when you wind up 1.6 kHz all the way). In general the action of this EQ is more on the subtle side - which is fine by me. On bass it was amazing how much I could punch up 110 Hz without making the bass sound sloppy, and cracking open the mid band at 1.6 kHz brought out finger noise and articulation when needed. By taking it down to 1.6 kHz and raising the HPF up to 40 Hz I could turn a modern kick into a retro Motown-type kick. The low-pass filter (LPF) is sorely missed from other plugins. I found this EQ very useful and musical on a variety of sources.
MANNY MARROQUIN TONE SHAPER SERIES
The tone shaping characteristics for each band were inspired by a variety of analog EQs including the Quad 8 console equalizer,Neve 1073, API 550B, Avalon 2055 and SSL 9000 Series console. Marroquin EQ is a four-band equalizer augmented with high and low-pass filters. The Marroquin plugins include EQ,Delay, Reverb, Tone Shaper, Triple D and Distortion.
Now they are turning to one of the Young Guns to put together a bundle that epitomizes some of his typical signal processing setups. Waves has been doing engineer-specific bundles for a while now with Eddie Kramer and Chris Lord-Alge already in the stable. Folks ranging from Alicia Keys and Lana Del Rey to Linkin Park and the Rolling Stones have turned to him for the certain something.
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