Precision meets artistry: With the Elysia Museq, precision and artistry unite in perfect harmony. Its unparalleled filtering capabilities allow you to delicately shape each element of your mix, giving your tracks an unmistakable professional sheen. From subtle adjustments to bold tonal sculpting, Elysia Museq delivers an exceptional level of control over your sound.
A masterful touch for mastering: Step into the realm of mastering excellence with the Elysia Museq. Tailored with mastering engineers in mind, it offers an array of features designed to achieve stunningly balanced audio. Experience pristine tonal clarity, precise stereo imaging, and meticulous dynamic control, ensuring your final masters stand tall amidst the competition.
With endless creative possibilities you can fuel your imagination with Elysia Museq’s boundless creative potential.
Elysia Museq is designed for intuitive ease of use, making your mixing and mastering sessions an effortless joy. Navigate effortlessly through its user-friendly controls and access the perfect EQ settings in an instant, enabling you to stay focused on the creative process.
Trusted by industry professionals, admired by artists – Elysia Museq enjoys the trust of audio professionals around the world, earning a spot in the most prestigious studios and the hearts of top artists. Its transparent sound and impeccable performance have contributed to countless chart-toppers and award-winning albums.
Active Bandpasses with FETs
All filter stages of Elysia Museq are active designs without any inductors. The actual layout of the band passes is where the magic happens: Basically, they are composed of only six transistors, two capacitors and the resistor that determines the frequency.
This circuitry forms a bandpass that operates without any feedback, which results in a very musical sound. Especially regarding filters this puristic and compact design is of considerable acoustic benefit.
Parallel Filter Design
Another specialty is the design of the high and low pass filters: in actual fact, the high pass with resonance is a low pass with resonance which is flipped in its phase and then mixed with the original signal.
This has the great advantage that the mid and high frequencies are not affected by the filter and therefore do not change in sound at all. Only the bass frequency region is processed by the filter and the entire signal remains open and transparent.
Resonance High & Low Pass
The outer bands of Elysia Museq show a great amount of flexibility. In their standard mode, they are set up as sweet sounding high and low shelf filters that can be used to tailor the airiness and fundamentals of your tracks fast and efficiently.
As a special feature, you can independently switch these to become high and low-cut filters with 12 dB per octave and an additional resonance peak at the knee frequency. This allows some very interesting and useful filter curves. Especially bass frequencies can benefit from a low cut with resonance by obtaining a clean and punchy character.
Warm Mode
This function is basically a slew rate limiter that reduces the speed of the output amplifier stages. This affects the frequency spectrum, the harmonics and the transient response at the same time.
Fast transients are slowed down a bit and the overall sound appears rounder and more merged. As this function influences the behaviour of the output stages, the effect it creates has an impact on the complete processing results of all EQ stages. In this way Elysia Museq offers two different sound characters at the push of a button: The powerful transparency of the discrete class-A circuitry and the saturated richness of the Warm mode.
Boost/Cut Mode
Each band of Elysia Museq can be switched from boost into cut mode. The advantage is that the complete controller range is utilised for the desired action and the resolution of the stepped potentiometers is twice as large. Another noteworthy fact is that the filters carry a signal permanently, which grants a superb signal to noise ratio and also produces a pleasant number of harmonics.
Not until the gain controller is used, the specific frequency band will come into action. If the gain controller remains in its 0 position, the signal will not be affected at all – the band is virtually switched off.
Switchable Filter Quality
The filter quality of the three parametric bands can be switched between two characteristics: wide (Q 0.5) and narrow (Q 1.3). This does not have any effect on the maximum amplitude. The filters are based on the constant Q principle, which provides an ever-constant filter quality that is independent from the gain controller.
Pure Transparency
All active stages of Elysia Museq are based on current feedback amplifiers which have been optimised for a top-notch impulse response. These amplifier stages operate completely without the use of additional capacitors.
These caps are usually inserted to eliminate high frequency oscillation (at the cost of affecting the frequency response). The result of consequently not using this kind of capacitors at all is an amplifier which sounds natural, open, dynamic and transparent.
Matched Potentiometers
Elysia Museq features stepped conductive plastic potentiometers for all its parameters throughout. The 21 steps make a precise recall very easy, which is very convenient not only for mastering purposes.
In order to keep the component tolerance as low as possible, we measure all potentiometers and match them as stereo pairs with a software routine we have written exactly for this purpose. The obvious benefit of this effort is that the left and the right channel behave exactly the same.
