IQ-Series EQ V3

This plugin has the potential to replace all of your EQs and compressors. It takes your productions to a new level. Mixing and mastering has never been so easy …

Only 129,90 

Multiple Grammy Award Winner Norberto Islas:

“I know quite a lot great EQ plugins but the HOFA IQ-Series EQ is the best for me because of the precision and accurate sound…”

Producer, mixer and Recording Engineer from Mexico and six-time Grammy Award winner (3x Grammy, 3x Latin-Grammy)

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The IQ-Series EQ offers unique features and can serve as a complete high-end channelstrip.

This video will show you all of these fantastic features and how to use them in your mixes and masters.

 

Features V3.7.18:

  • Extended frequency range 1 Hz – 40 kHz for each of the 6 bands
  • 16 different filter types (6 shelves, 4 high cuts, 4 low cuts, peak, flat)
  • Stereo, left, right, mid or side processing per band
  • IQ dynamics per band (compression & expansion)
  • Look ahead & live mode
  • Sidechain (external & internal, e.g. 100 Hz controls 10 kHz)
  • High and low cut with selectable 6/12/24/48 dB slope
  • Analyser with hold function
  • Solo mode for each IQ-Series EQ band
  • Scalable plugin window size
  • 64-bit internal processing
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HOFA CEO Jochen Sachse explains a new method for compression, which is not only suitable for challenging vocal tracks. 
Complex recordings like piano, guitars or keyboards can be controlled easily.

 

The HOFA IQ-Series EQ V3 is a powerful equalizer with dynamics and analyser. The IQ-Series EQ is more sophisticated than any other EQ out there. It’s intuitive and straightforward. This is due to its functional and attractive design. 

High-end EQing from 1 Hz to 40 kHz, world-class dynamics and perfect de-essing make for outstanding results in mixing and mastering.
Filtered sidechain, expansion and compression per band and elaborate M/S processing allow for completely new ways of sound shaping.

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With the IQ-Series EQ you can realise:

  • top level mixes and masters
  • innovative sound shaping due to simultaneous dynamics and frequency editing
  • balanced vocals without compromises
  • powerful synths and guitars without muddy resonances
  • powerful bass without boominess
  • extreme processing – but only when it is necessary
  • subtle sound shaping for mastering
  • perfect de-essing

Licenses:

  • The software is installed and activated with the HOFA Plugins Manager. Two licences are available to you. These can be deactivated and transferred to other machines. Find a description of the activation and deactivation process here. It is also possible to activate and use HOFA plugins offline.
  • Licences on USB sticks can be used alongside USB licences from other plugin manufacturers without any issues.

Compatibility:

  • HOFA plugins are compatible with Windows 7/8/10/11 as well as Intel® (64 bit) and Apple Silicon Macs from OS X 10.13 to macOS 14 (Sonoma)
  • Audio Unit, VST3 and AAX.
  • We constantly test HOFA plugins with the following DAWs:
    Ableton Live, Apple Logic, Avid Pro Tools, Bitwig, Cockos Reaper, Image Line FL Studio, Magix Samplitude/Sequoia, Presonus Studio One, Steinberg Cubase/Nuendo/Wavelab

Learn more: Click here to download the IQ-Series EQ manual.
QuickTip Tutorial: Sweet High End   |   QuickTip Tutorial: Finding Resonances

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User feedback & press reviews:

“The IQ-EQ is my main weapon of choice!
The only EQ powerful enough to solve even the most troubled tracks I get for mastering. If you combine its already impressive capabilities with external control signal sidechaining, both corrective and enhancement possibilities are just endless.”

Camilo Silva F.
Mastering Engineer
Chia, Colombia

 

The HOFA IQ-Series EQ is one of the plugins that you do not want to lose if you had it in use once before.
The concept is ingenious …
The dynamic function saved us a lot of work and allows completely new possibilities.
The equalizer is designed for the use on individual tracks as well as mastering.

Buenas Ideas

Because of its excellent sound quality, its clear interface and its low resource requirements the IQ-Series EQ was satisfying in our test across-the-board.
In particular the Dynamic Gain function makes this flexible equalizer an effective troubleshooter, which even enables drastic corrections, which are only implemented when necessary.

Rating 6 out of 6 points / Editor’s Choice

Beat magazine

There’s just so much this single plugin can do. Apart from needing reverbs (which they make and I will write a review for soon) and delays (maybe we can convince them to make an IQ-Series Delay) you could mix and master entire projects with this single plugin and want for nothing. (…)
Since getting IQ-Series EQ, I’ve pretty much used it on every track that needs any frequency processing, (…) I hate overhyping anything but this is the most versatile EQ plugin I’ve used in a very long time.

Everything Recording Rating: 5 Sterne

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I cannot say enough how excited I am about the HOFA IQ-Series EQ plugin.  I have been mixing and recording out of the box for decades and it has been challenging for me to make the transition to ITB mixing.  Mostly because there are a few indispensable tools that have only existed as rack mount devices.  For decades I have relied on the BSS 901 mkii Dynamic Equalizer as a sort of “secret weapon” for fixing problematic vocal recordings or harsh guitar sounds.  FINALLY!  HOFA has created a plug in that does everything the BSS did and much much more.  The extraordinarily tight Q settings, the wonderfully flexible shelf shapes and Being able to automate the controls makes IQ infinitely more useful for me.  Whether I am mixing in the computer or on my console, the HOFA IQ-Series EQ is my new secret weapon!!

Eric Valentine
UnderToneAudio.com
San Francisco | USA

The HOFA IQ-Series EQ really deserves the name “IQ”. Its handling is absolutely intuive; by sweeping in the display you can quickly find the desired frequencies and the appropriate parameters and control them.
I got along with it as fast as with no other EQ.
The sound of the HOFA IQ-Series EQ is sophisticated, clear and pure.

Olaf Hemker
Tonmeister VDT
klang:art Tonstudio

I was almost dumbstruck … Ingenious !!! A big plus, of course, is the variable window size.
The integrated analyser is marvelous! It is very useful even for inexperienced users, because you can see exactly where you need to use it. Especially for De-Essing and sibilance control this is very helpful.
Extremely interesting to me is the editing ability of the middle and side signal – wow!
Conclusion … a high-end plug-in for an unbeatable price

Michael Watzal
studio@livetrack.de
Heidenrod, Germany

IQ-Series EQ is SO transparent and most importantly, extremely flexible.
You guys nailed the sound and the interface as far as its intuitiveness and useability!
Well done again…

Bob Davodian
Taurean Mixing | Mixing/Mastering
taureanonlinemixing.com
Garnerville, New York