Tierra Audio Icicle Equalizer

Icicle EQualizer is a powerful 4-band monoparametric equalizer. A versatile tool fit for every situation.
Icicle Equalizer is your ally for surgically removing any annoying frequency or increasing a region.

Edit without limits!
With Icicle Equalizer you can choose between our cleanest sound, or a more coloured sound with the OOMPH!

Clean sound:
Ultra-clear and clean sound, perfect for equalizing voices, guitars or strings.

OOMPH! sound:
Perfect to add a special colour to your tracks, from the characteristic grain of tape recording, to higher levels of distortion giving a unique personality to your drums and basses.

Benefit from the OOMPH! feature
Icicle Equalizer is empowered to add extra analog color thanks to Germanium Diodes distortion.
OOMPH! will grant your sound with the harmonic’s excitation from a slightly soft distortion to an agressive one. Perfect for all those situations where you are looking for that kind of rich and warm sound.

Broaden your voices
Sure enough, you have envied the broadened voices of your favorite mixes a million times.
Icicle Equalizer comes with a treble filter that reaches up to 29,4kHz.
Therefore, you will be able to enhance your voices’ glow up to the maximum, adding a sense of broadness and proximity.
Want better results? Try the treble bandwidth with a lowered Q to reduce the annoying frequencies and control de Harsh effect.

Down to the last detail
Icicle Equalizer fits perfectly those situations where some annoying frequencies arise, either due to an acoustic space resonance, to the instrument construction, or because of the presence of certain frequency registries unneeded in the final mix.
To get rid of them, we suggest choosing a small Q and increasing that frequency range gain. Search for the said frequency adjusting the FREQUENCY knob until noticing it intensifies. Beware of keeping your monitor’s volume not too high.
Once found, decrease the gain to the minimum and… Voilà! The frequency will vanish.

Boost your FX
Do not leave your delivery channels untreated. The reverb channel often contains unnecessary frequencies that soil the final sound. Icicle Equalizer is ideal for these situations.
Try removing the effects’ low-end or even eliciting a different sensation by creatively emphasizing different ranges of frequencies.

Stereo recording and mixing!
Icicle Equalizer was conceived to meet the needs of the most demanding recording engineers, offering an incredibly clean response in each of its four EQ bands, perfect for recording vocals and instruments, in addition to its now famous germanium distortion that provides fully configurable harmonic content that enriches the sound with a deeply musical THD.

But what about stereo recordings? As professionals using Icicle in their recording chain have been squeezing its capabilities, they have realized its tremendous potential not only in the classical mono recording stage, but also in stereo recordings of guitars or pianos, as well as in the mixing and mastering stages.

That’s why, from now on, we provide you with a set of perfectly calibrated Icicle Equalizers so that you can work in a stereo environment with the same level of precision in both channels.

This calibration process involves the manual selection of electronic components to achieve, by measuring their tolerances, perfect pairs that ensure that each frequency band behaves in the same way in each of the Icicle EQs.

Similarly, for the germanium distortion of the OOMPH! potentiometer, diodes are manually selected to provide the same level of distortion at each of their harmonic contribution levels.

Like all our products, this calibration and matching process is done by hand, in Madrid, by our engineering team. For this, it is necessary to manufacture from scratch both units as if they were one. That is to say, it is not a process that can be carried out later with units manufactured separately.

Now you can enjoy the sonic surgery on your mixes and stereo recordings.


FEATURES

Handmade with ❤️ in Madrid
In order to guarantee the correct electron flux of the analog signal, we put together the finest “through hole" components, instead of robotically assembled miniaturized components. In this way we reduce to the minimum the electronic friction to enhance the thermal response of the equipment and avoid background noises.

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