Softube Empirical Labs Lil FrEQ

Freakishly powerful.

The warm and punchy analog sound of the Empirical Labs Lil FrEQ makes it something of an oddity in the world of equalizers. But it’s no sideshow. With its heart-shaped box of tricks, mighty analog tone, and de-essing chops, we’re hard-pressed to think of a more powerful analog EQ. It’s what makes Lil FrEQ the ace in the hole for so many high-profile recording engineers and mixing professionals. When your equalizer features eight different processing sections, you can ditch the multi-plug-in setup and get on with it. Our native software version— expertly modeled under the watchful eye of Dave Derr himself —gives you all that tone-shaping and correction power, plus supernatural sound quality, and flavor galore. In a word, it's un-freakin-believable.

This product supports Extended Features

We love VU meters, Bakelite knobs, and analog quirks. But we want modern precision and workflow. The answer? Softube Extended Features. Easy-access panels with the innovations you need close at hand.

Console 1 Ready

This plug-in can be used within Console 1, our mixing system.

Highlights

• An expertly modeled recreation of the ELI Lil FrEQ hardware
• Available for the first time as a native plugin
• Developed in collaboration with Dave Derr and Empirical Labs Inc.
• Eight process sections with bypass switches to A/B the effect of each section
• 4-band fully parametric EQ with sweep-able frequency and bandwidth (Q)
• De-ess (Level independent dynamic EQ)/ HF Limit (High Frequency Limiter)
• Extremely powerful and punchy
• Featuring the legendary ELI sound
• A potent sound shaping tool with eight processing sections to achieve the sounds you want faster
• A flawless recreation of the Lil FrEQ hardware unit, featuring de-essing
• Developed in conjunction with Dave Derr and Empirical Labs Inc.