Heritage Audio and its sub-brand LANG Electronics have revealed the LANG PEQ-2 plugin, emulating the Lang PEQ-2 program equaliser from the ’60s, which was reissued in 2023.
Heritage has given several of its own hardware classics similar treatment in the past, recreating all of its Successor stereo bus compressor’s features as a plugin with new features. It also similarly transformed its Symph EQ, and its BritStrip console channel strip.
Available in both native and DSP formats, this authentic recreation of the PEQ-2 boasts a simple layout and user interface, with independent controls for Boost and Droop (cut) for high and low frequency bands.
The PEQ-2 also features a high peak boost with variable high frequency boost bandwidth settings that range from sharp to broad, covering a multitude of needs.
What’s more, all owners of the existing PEQ-2 hardware unit can fill in an online form to redeem a native version of the plugin for free. Native and DSP versions are also available for free to anyone who owns any of the Heritage Audio i73 Pro family products. For everyone else, a set price of $99 applies.
LANG was based in New York through the ’50s and ’60s before being acquired by Heritage Audio in 2022. The original PEQ-2 was released in the 1960s under the LANG brand, before Heritage reissued it in 2023 after extensive research and backward engineering. The visual design is the same, but it now has additional frequency adjustments for more accurate control. Its passive, inductor-based EQ saw it draw a lot of comparisons to the Pultec EQP-1A, but it’s significantly less expensive.
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