BETTERMAKER EQ232D

Having grown from the Addicted to Music studio in Warsaw, Poland’s Bettermaker specialises in modern studio processors that combine the quality and character of high-end analogue circuitry with the convenience of digital control. Not only does this mean that its current crop of hardware sports sleek and attractive colour touchscreen displays, it also allows the analogue signal processing provided by the hardware to be controlled via a DAW plug-in, so that it feels much like using any other plug-in processor.

One of Bettermaker’s most popular products is the discontinued 232P MKII mastering equaliser, a processor that blends classic and modern in a remarkably effective way. The classic comes in the form of a two-band Pultec-style EQ filter that allows both attenuation and boost around the same or similar