Plugin Alliance has released today Lindell TE-100 EQ plugin, an emulation plugin of one of the most known tube equalizers in the history.
TE-100 is the almost perfect emulation of Klein & Hummel’s UE-100 EQ Unit
In 1961, Klein & Hummel’s has unveiled UE-100, an all tube equalizer which used six filter modules to create a dynamic band-pass curves for that warm response on any audio track or bus and most of all on master summing track by boosting or / and cutting certain frequencies.
Lindell Te-100 EQ plugin emulates that Germain monster EQ machine for only $149. You don’t have to pay $20,000 for a stereo unit of Klein & Hummel’s EQ Hardware “plant”. The recreation of the UE-100 is almost on-to-one on Lindell Audio TE-100 EQ plugin as Plugin Aliance press release states.
The Klein and Hummel’s UE-100 EQ machine delivered that warm sound from a total of 14 vacuum tubes going into 8 musical bands of equalization from the classic Runfunk broadcasting EQ. TE-100 from Lindell Audio simulates that behavior as close as it can be in software part of things including the “workflow” by having a Pultec Style Band-Pass Curves which let the engineer cut and / or boost at coincident frequencies as the original hardware EQ. Low-Pass and High-Pass knob are sideways on the TE-100 interface while the dual parametric Band-Pass filters are in the mid section. The push button frequency allow you to select accurately a specific frequency.
More features on Lindell Audio TE-100 Plugin
More than emulating the original hardware EQ, TE-100 EQ brings a lot of modern functions from the digital domain. Level Calibration and Adjustable Oversampling are just two examples of that features. The Analog Mode of TE-100 emulates the process of over driving the transformer of the hardware along with the noise floor. The best thing is that the transformer over-driving is independent of the filters circuit. The filters can be bypassed and disabled while you can use only that warm of over-driving.
“Without a doubt, the Klein & Hummel UE-100 is the best-sounding EQ ever made in Germany. It is unrivaled in punch and sweet-sounding high frequencies,” said producer/engineer Michael Zimmerling, who has worked with hundreds of artists, including luminaries such as David Bowie, George Clinton, Depeche Mode and Maceo Parker. “I never thought it would be possible to model this iconic EQ, with its 14 tubes and 25kg of weight, but Lindell cracked Pandora’s Box. If you’re after that vintage sound like me, then this is it!”
Download Lindell TE-100 from Plugin Alliance
Lindell TE-100 EQ Plugin is available on Plugin Alliance site in AAX, AU, VST2 and VST3 format for MAC OS and also for Windows. Lindell Audio TE-100 is also included into Vintage Emulation Collection of Plugin Alliance along with other four dynamic plugins at a discounted bundle price. All the plugin Alliance products are available as fully functional 14-day demos with a registered account. More details and also the purchase /download link can be found here.
