From Dangerous Music
The Dangerous Music BAX500 brings the legendary, ultra-musical Baxandall curves of the acclaimed BAX EQ to a single-slot 500-series module with absolutely zero compromise. It’s the ultimate velvet vocal tracking and mixing EQ, with broad shelves that shape several octaves at once, so each small move delivers a big result: vast open top, solid bottom, and a polished, expensive sense of dimension that makes your mix feel finished—not EQ’d. Built for tracking, mixing, and mastering, BAX500 gives you the classic Dangerous BAX tone-shaping workflow in a compact format, with High and Low shelves plus High Cut and Low Cut filters to control the frequency extremes that steal headroom and cloud translation. Use one for mono sources or run a pair for stereo buses when you need that audiophilia BAX high-fidelity sweetening on your mix.
KEY FEATURES
- The BAX500 shelving EQ shapes several octaves at once, so each small move delivers a big result with a vast open top end, grounded bottom, and a polished, expensive sense of dimension.
- High Cut and Low Cut filters remove infrasonic rumble and ultrasonic interference flawlessly to open up your headroom, dynamics and translation.
- Wide-band shelving for smooth and natural sonics, without phase incoherence and harshness that often plague narrow, surgical EQ moves.
- Musical 12 dB-per-octave filter slopes deliver smooth, organic results that sound natural and pleasant while controlling the frequency extremes.
- Gentle ±5 dB gain range crafts simple, musical decisions with small boosts or cuts delivering surprisingly large results.
- Relay-controlled hard-wired bypass completely removes the filters or entire circuit from the signal path for true A/B comparisons with no buffering or coloration.
- Mastering-grade custom components are selected for both performance and sound, delivering stunning imaging, clarity, musicality, and detail.
- DC-coupled signal path avoids transformers and electrolytic capacitors, preserving transparency, low-end clarity, and phase accuracy.
- Format
- 500-series module (single-slot)
- EQ Type
- Baxandall high and low shelving EQ
- Shelving Gain Range
- ±5 dB
- Shelving Behavior
- Broad bandwidth shelves shaping several octaves
- Filters
- High Cut and Low Cut frequency filters
- Filter Slope
- 12 dB per octave
- Bypass
- Relay-controlled hard-wired bypass (filters and full circuit)
- Signal Path
- DC-coupled up to the Low Cut filter
- Components
- Mastering-grade custom components
- Assembly
- Hand assembled in the USA
- Warranty
- 2 years
DIMMS
In box 8X6X4 inches / 20.3 X 15.2 X 10.2cm
In box 2 LBS / .91 KG
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