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If you decide your order isn't suitable for any reason you can return it - just let us know within 50 days of receiving it. Please keep hold of all the original packaging until you're sure you want to keep the order.
Eligibility for Money Back Guarantee
Important: For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered." Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions. Products include:
- Monitors and Headphones
- Earplugs and Ear Protection
- Reeds and mouthpieces for woodwind and brass instruments
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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 50 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package and some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging. For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information guide.
Key Features
The SSL Native X-EQ 2 is a mastering-grade, 24-band parametric EQ with unique anti-cramping technology. The ultimate toolkit for audio professionals, the SSL X-EQ 2 offers an astounding range of 17 different filters in total, with five cut shapes, nine bells, traditional and custom high and low-pass filters and a parallel mode. This is paired with SSL's unique anti-cramping technology to ensure a linear response across the entire frequency spectrum with no cramping to 0dB at the Nyquist frequency. A formidable EQ, X-EQ 2 aims to replace all other EQs in your arsenal.
Pairing excellent sound with functional design, X-EQ 2 includes the expected draggable EQ parameters with a highly visible display with a real-time FFT overlay with phase and step response graphs available also. SSL X-EQ 2 is highly CPU-efficient, enabling you to run as many as you need across your session without worrying about overloading and includes an intuitive preset manager with a range of presets made to emulate some of the world's biggest engineers' secrets at the palm of your hand.
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There is an inherent problem with the mathematics of digital filters. They will bring the level down to unity when they reach the Nyquist frequency of 20kHz. For example, if you're boosting at 10kHz with a wide bandwidth, you may think you are affecting frequencies above 20kHz as read by the graph on your EQ plug-in, but this will likely not be the case. Because of this, you may lose the 'airiness' and high-frequency lift you get when using analog equipment.
SSL have developed a proprietary system to correct this problem, ensuring that you get a symmetrical bell shape when boosting frequencies, even those that extend the Nyquist frequency. Whereas with other EQs you may need to adjust the samplerate of your project or oversample the plug-in internally, with SSL Native X-EQ 2 you don't! This is ideal as these other methods can introduce their own problems of latency or increased CPU usage. Instead, integrated into the plug-in, any filter shape you make won't be affected by this 'cramping', allowing you to get a much more linear response to find the exact sound you're looking for!
Functional for any application, EQ can make or break your session. It could be the difference between a muddy mess of instruments that clash for space or a pristine, clean and professional sound. With that in mind, you might think you need to reach for several different EQs in a session to find the right sound or application to suit everything a production needs? Wrong! The X-EQ 2 looks to replace all your existing EQs and proves a convincing point when you see the 24 bands on display.
24 bands offer 17 different filter types, including five cut filters for surgical removal of unwanted frequencies or carving a space for an instrument and nine bell shapes which can be used to control how the frequencies are boosted. Add to that traditional high and low shelves with multiple dB/oct slopes and custom high and low-pass filters and you have a very powerful EQ plug-in that's capable to be used on any instrument. Lastly, there is a parallel mode in which the EQ runs parallel with the dry signal, extremely handy for in-depth sculpting of your frequency curve whilst maintaining the original character of your track.
It's not just functional with different curves though. X-EQ 2 also includes Mid/Side modes and Left/Right spatial options. Perfect for working with stereo source material, you can independently sculpt the left and right channels for a balanced mix across the entire frequency spectrum and stereo image in one plug-in!
Designed to be as functional as it is exceptional sounding, the X-EQ 2 employs some clever additions to ensure it will be compatible with any kind of modern engineer or producer. It's highly CPU efficient, meaning you can run multiple instances and not encounter any unwanted artefacts or overloading of your computer processors, even on older machines. It also features draggable EQ bands, with per band solo and bypass to hear the moves you're making in isolation for surgical removal of resonances or other applications. Any changes you do make in your X-EQ 2 can be displayed in the real-time FFT analysis, with an overlay option to show the EQ changes you have made to your curve, providing crucial visual information on the response of your audio. This has all been built into a system with an extremely low noise floor with extremely low non-linear distortion algorithms.
