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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
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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 | 30 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.
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Key Features
The Soundtoys Sie-Q 5 is an authentic recreation of a vintage, German hardware EQ, boasting a rich and musical sound that will take your tracks from rough and raw to professional and radio-ready. Using proprietary component level modelling, the Soundtoys Sie-Q accurately emulates the discrete silicon transistor design of the original hardware to deliver a beautiful sound with a simple and intuitive layout to instantly add vintage EQ to your tracks and mixes. An often under-appreciated component of mixing and mastering, EQ is arguably the most powerful and important aspect in shaping and sculpting your tracks. With Sie-Q, you are given the tools to transform and carve out your performances to fit the context of your mix or to simply add vintage flair and character to your sound.
Featuring an intuitive layout of three frequency bands and an output Drive section, the Sie-Q requires a very little learning curve to allow you to add vintage analog tone to your tracks quickly and easily, without tedious boundaries like menu-diving that stifle creativity. Each band is tuned to perfection to provide you with all the character and tonal shaping you need within that range. The low-frequency band lets you add 'oomph' and weight to thin and weak tracks, whereas the frequency-switchable mid-range lets you hone in on a specific targetted frequency to fine-tune the most important part of your instruments tone and the high-frequency range is tailored perfectly for vocal performances thanks to the broadcasting roots of the original hardware counterpart. In traditional Soundtoys fashion, the Drive circuit allows you to take your signal into overdrive and add complex saturation and harmonics to your bass tracks, vocals, drums and much more.
Product Ref: 188800
A true hidden gem in the world of vintage EQ, Soundtoys have accurately recreated the Siemens W295b outboard unit as their first-ever foray into EQ plug-ins. Chosen for its highly musical and impressive sound, the Sie-Q captures all the detail and character of the original in immense detail, giving you the most authentic, analog feel possible. Featuring silky smooth curves full of character and vibe, airy highs, strong and powerful lows with a wide-ranging switchable mid-range, the Sie-Q will quickly become your go-to workhorse for all things EQ within your projects and mixes.
Overall, Sie-Q is a highly musical and subtle EQ that can help you carve out any offending frequencies from your performance to fit better within the context of your mix. Providing you three bands with a switchable mid-range gives you the scope to adjust almost any element of your mix, whether that's a low-end focused instrument such as a bass guitar or a highly complex mid-range instrument such as a distorted electric guitar or a chimey lead vocal in the upper-ranges of the frequency range, Sie-Q 5, Digital Delivery helps you carve out space or add in a subtle vintage flavour that binds your tracks together cohesively.
Although designed to be used at modest levels, the Sie-Q features a hidden weapon in the output Drive section. Here, you can add up to +15dB of output gain to transform your signal into searing overdrive, full of overtones, complex harmonics and saturation that can lift your track above a mix and sit on top to be heard loud and clear. Pushing the Drive section can even be used to creative effect for driving rock electric guitars or vocals to create a stylised sound that perfectly fits the genre!
The true focal point of Sie-Q is the crystal clear top-end frequency band that's unlike anything you've heard before. Originally designed for broadcasting presenters, the hardware counterpart was tailored more specifically for the frequency ranges of vocalists and voices. These roots in broadcasting make Sie-Q the perfect tool for EQ'ing and mixing vocals within your projects and tracks to get the best sound possible from your performance. Although biased towards vocals, the Sie-Q is certainly not limited to the number of instruments and sounds you can apply it to in order to achieve silky, crystal clear highs, it adds space and air to almost any source, no matter how extreme you are boosting! Breathe new life into acoustic guitars or pull out some extra sizzle and smooth-out drum cymbals or use in conjunction with the output drive to add harmonics and cut to a snare drum or even bass guitar. Once you've balanced and perfected the mix of your instruments, insert Sie-Q on your master bus and use a subtle touch of the high-frequency boost to transform your mix to a wide-open sound stage with openness and separation that adds a professional sheen to your mixes.
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