Technical information

McDSP plug-ins
The F202 has just two  lters, high pass and low pass, con gurable as 6, 12, 18,
or 24/dB per octave types. Each  lter has a resonant peak control that lets you
adjust the shape of the  lter, which can be seen in the frequency vs amplitude
display. This type of control, especially when automated, can be used to create
synth-like  lter sweeps.
MC2000 Multi-band Compressor
The MC2000 is a multi-band compressor, which is supplied in three di erent
configurations. Instead of just one compressor operating on the entire
frequency spectrum, the input signal is divided into two, three, or four bands,
spectrum. The width of each parametric band is controlled by the Q control.
Q = 1/bandwidth, so large values of Q correspond to narrow bandwidths and
small values of Q correspond to wide bandwidths.
Note that when the Q control is set to its lowest setting (0.2 which produces a
5-octave bandwidth), the equalizer response approaches that of a very smooth
low- or high-shelf  lter when the frequency control is set to extreme low- and
high-frequency settings – a common characteristic of high-end parametric
equalizers.
The FilterBank P606 was the  rst plug-in for Pro Tools to o er analog saturation
modelling. So even if you overdrive this EQ, although you will get distortion, it
will sound more like analog distortion than digital distortion.
FilterBank F202
Figure A12.17
FilterBank F202.