Arturia EQ SITRAL-295 User Manual page 5

Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of Arturia's EQ SITRAL-295...!
Arturia's passion for synthesizers and sonic purity has given demanding musicians the best
software instruments for professional audio production.
Arturia also has a growing expertise in the audio field, and in 2017 launched the AudioFuse,
a pro studio quality audio interface that features two proprietary DiscretePRO® microphone
preamplifiers and a set of top-notch AD/DA converters. This line was recently expanded with
the launch of the AudioFuse Studio and the AudioFuse 8Pre. Arturia has also been busy
making effect plug-ins, launching in 2018 the first Arturia effects bundle, which included
the Pre 1973, the Pre TridA, and the Pre V76. This was our first step in the field of audio
effect processing plug-ins, and a logical one, considering all the experience gathered while
programming the effects sections for our own synth plug-ins.
These also allowed us to take a first step in analyzing and reproducing retro and vintage
analog audio processing units.
Other bundles followed, dedicated to compressors, filters, delays, and reverbs. More
recently, Arturia added three new effects to the collection, this time dedicated to modulation,
this way consolidating its position as a leader in audio effect plug-ins.
The ARTURIA EQ SITRAL-295 is part of a set of three new effects plug-ins, dedicated to one
of the most important tasks in audio processing: bus sound processing.
ARTURIA has a passion for excellence and accuracy. This has led us to conduct an extensive
analysis of every aspect of some of the most famous and iconic equalization units built
in the 70s by a famous German manufacturer. We have carefully studied and reproduced
the behavior of their electrical circuits and components. We also came up with the idea of
combining them in a completely new equalizer, that would feature the best of each of these
vintage units.
The result is an effects plug-in that, although inspired by these sought-after EQs, includes
what may be considered our vision of what vintage equalization can be nowadays, suited
for the modern studio environment.
EQ SITRAL-295 runs as a plug-in in all major formats inside your DAW.
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Arturia. The trademarks of other manufacturers mentioned are used solely to identify
the products of those manufacturers whose features and sound were studied during the
development of this plug-in. All names of equipment inventors and manufacturers have
been included for illustrative and educational purposes only and do not suggest any
affiliation or endorsement of EQ SITRAL-295 by any equipment inventor or manufacturer.
The Arturia team