DarkQPro2

DarkQPro

A clean, surgical-and-musical parametric EQ with a full spectrum analyzer, dynamic and spectral processing, mid/side capability, and a complete pro workflow (A/B, undo/redo, EQ match). DarkQPro gives you up to 24 fully configurable bands placed and edited directly on an interactive curve display, each capable of static EQ, dynamic EQ, or per-frequency spectral dynamics.

Working surface

CURVE DISPLAY + ANALYZER — The main interactive screen. Drag bands directly on the curve to set frequency and gain; the real-time spectrum analyzer shows input/output. You add/edit/remove bands on this display.

ANALYZER controls — Spectrum mode, view, tilt, speed, peak-hold, and freeze for the display.

Per-band controls (selected band)

FREQ (20 Hz…20 kHz) — Band center/corner frequency.

GAIN (−30…+30 dB) — Band gain/cut.

Q (0.1…30) — Bandwidth/resonance.

TYPE (Bell / Low Shelf / High Shelf / Low Cut / High Cut / Notch / Tilt Shelf) — Band shape.

SLOPE (6 / 12 / 24 / 48 / 96 dB/oct) — Filter steepness for cuts and shelves.

CURVE TYPE (Digital / Butterworth / Linkwitz-Riley) — The filter curve math used for cuts/shelves.

SOLO — Audition just the selected band.

BYPASS (per band) — Disable an individual band.

STEREO MODE (Stereo / Left / Right / Mid / Side) — Each band can act on the full stereo image or just L, R, M, or S — full mid/side EQ.

Dynamic + spectral processing

DYN (dynamic EQ) — Turns the selected band into a dynamic EQ band that acts only when the signal crosses a threshold, with:

• RANGE (−30…+30 dB) — Max dynamic gain change.
• THRESH (−80…0 dB) — Where the dynamic action kicks in.
• ATTACK (0.1…500 ms) / RELEASE (10…2000 ms) — Dynamic timing.

COMP MODE (Downward / Upward / Both) — Direction of the dynamic action.

SPEC (spectral dynamics) — Per-frequency dynamic processing across the band (each frequency moves independently), for transparent resonance/harshness control.

SC Hz (sidechain frequency) — Tunes the band’s detector.

EXT SC — Use an external sidechain input to drive the dynamics.

M/S BALANCE — Mid/side balance for the band’s processing.

EQ character / quality

EQ MODE (Clean / Medium / Analog) — Overall voicing, from fully transparent to subtly analog-flavored.

PHASE MODE (Zero Latency / Natural) — Zero-Lat is minimum-latency, Natural is analog-matched phase response.

OVERSAMPLING — Higher quality / more CPU for the filtering.

Workflow

A/B — Compare two full settings snapshots.

UNDO / REDO — Step through edit history.

CAPTURE + MATCH — Capture a reference spectrum and apply EQ Match to shape your source toward it.

AUTO GAIN — Automatic output compensation so EQ changes don’t shift level.

GAIN SCALE — Scales the magnitude of all your moves at once.

PRESET / SAVE — Preset management.

FREEZE — Freeze the spectrum display.

Global

OUTPUT (−24…+24 dB) — Output gain, plus separate MID and SIDE output trims for M/S balance.

BYPASS / BYPASS ALL — Global bypass.

THEME — UI color theme.