The Q8 444X CONSOLE EQ AND CHANNEL STRI LUG-IN SUITE brings this classic,
vintage, completely authentic film console to your DAW.
It has been sampled at 96kHz and will convert to any rate directly within the engine. When used
at 96kHz, it uses the maximum sample size and length, and because it is sampled at this rate,
loads very quickly and takes the largest amount of computer resources (unless using a higher rate
than 96kHz). If used at 48kHz or 44.1kHz, the programs will take a little longer to load, but once
loaded, use a smaller amount of computer resources. In fact, at lower rates the programs use the
same resources as they would if sampled directly at the same lower rates. All programs have been
tested for these three rates and remain extremely accurate.
About the Q8 444X CONSOLE EQ AND CHANNEL STRI LUG-IN SUITE
The analog hardware device that this collection is inspired by is a completely custom, top-of-the-
line 1970's Film Console. It is named after a film processing system developed to allow four strips
of 8mm film to be processed on a single professional 35mm film strip. The clever name
symbolizes the revolution of combining multiple channels of variable impedence sources into a
single routing system, which we now know of as the audio mixing console. The entire signal chain,
from transformer to op-amp to eq to make-up gain op-amp, is sampled in each program. If you
have heard of Electrodyne, Sphere, Quad-Eight, Reichenbach, the AM10, A I 2520, Jensen 990,
John Hardy 990C, then you have experienced the heritage of this amazing original vintage
device. To describe the sound, think ink Floyd's "The Wall", which was recorded on four
interconnected Q8's using this preamp! The eq section was originally installed into a custom film
console, made special order to upgrade the standard eq to the 444X, or Super 444. The 444 is the
next generation of the earlier 333. It is quasi-parametric, meaning that variable "Q" is provided
by the choice of narrow, wide, and shelf band choices. The very few 444X eq's, also known as the
QE E 444X, that are in existence, were made to add more features and editing options while
making use of what many consider the best sounding operation amplifier to date, the AM10. The
444X was installed in this single custom console for a brief time and was only in active duty for a
brief time. This makes it one of the most priceless examples of a practically new old stock original
Q8 console channel strip, or as it was originally called, the line input module.
