PASSEQ @ sonicscoop

“My god, that roundness in the kick drum! The sense of depth of the bass when it enters! And of course, the sheer dimensionality the processor adds – the weight is just what I want.” Nick Messitte of sonicscoop has spent some time with our Passive Mastering Equalizer SPL PASSEQ. The result is a great […]

Mugent Sessions featuring Paul Schal

How do you master a track?Is it possible to get a good result by mastering your production on your own, or should you rather leave this work to a professional mastering studio? These are the topics of the Mugent Sessions #6 (in German) with guest Paul Schal from the 432 studios in Berlin, which aired […]

SPL User Story: 432 Studios

For the second SPL User Story, we visited Paul Schal (Tilman Brejora) in his 432Studios in Berlin and did an interview with him. In 2018 Paul founded the studios, providing production, mastering, mixing and recording service to international and local artist of all genres. Working in the audio industry as an artist, producer, professional mastering […]

SPL User Story: Dan D’Ascenzo Mastering

We are proud to present a new series of interviews we will publish here. For this first one, we visited mastering engineer Dan D’Ascenzo in his Leftright Audio studio in Belgium and did a little interview with him. Dan has been a creative Mastering and Mixing Engineer with Worldwide credits for more than 15 years. […]

SPL PASSEQ Mastering Equalizer in Sound & Recording

“I think we always knew: True beauty is analog!” When developing the PASSEQ Mastering Equalizer, our primary goal was to create a device spezialed for mastering and stereo material – a worthy successor of the legendary original Passeq. A hardware tool, which demonstrates the advantages of analog hardware while displaying the weaknesses of digital plugins. An […]

All Black Edition

All devices of the mastering series are now available in a third color combination – All Black. From a technical point of view these units are 100% identical with the regular color combinations red and black/silver. With the All Black edition, only the silver centerpiece is replaced by a black one. Devices with VU meters […]

SPL PASSEQ in Studio Magazin

“Its passive design could already convince experts around the globe, so that the current new Passeq is a completion of the old but constantly fresh and new concept of a passive filter design. The Pultec is still THE ‘prototype’ of a passive filter, but SPL’s contribution on this issue has acquired such a status, that […]

SPL PASSEQ at Bonedo

“Awesome sound – artful device – high-quality manufacturing” At online music portal Bonedo you will find a review plus audio files about our new PASSEQ Mastering Equalizer which is definitely worth reading. “PASSEQ is a classic dual-mono-hardware-eq, which means that each of its both channels can independently be processed.” “This 10 kg heavy 19-inch monster […]