Felt Instruments Releases Kolor: Vintage Equalizer Playground

I have been a fan of Felt Instruments for at least 5 years now. They have an extremely small amount of plugins, it seems like it takes them years to release one. He says hes been working on this one for 2 years. More of a passion project it seems. This one I have been very excited about though - all of their stuff is really good so I have high hopes for this. Its a very small botique plugin company, so I wanted to make an announcement page for them to lend some more visibility.

Warning: Massive images of extremely rare vintage equalizers below. Sorry for the wonky formatting - Im not the Press Desk. If very large pictures of obscure analog equalizers bothers you, I apologize in advance.

Felt Instrument Releases: Kolor Impressionist Equalizers

"Kolor is a cutting-edge EQ plugin, designed to add much needed colour to your digital mixes. Discover a stunning suite of ultra-rare vintage equalizers, presented as an easy-to-use modular equalizer playground. Mix and match different devices to find unique combinations that fit your style - and the track - best. "

"What equalizers made in the post-war Europe have in common? The design philosophy. They all provide wide, musical shelves, sometimes complemented by additional semi-parametric mid bands or tilts. Some are considered iconic. Others remain the hidden gems: made in low quantities for national broadcast industries, ignored by internet hype, uknown to most. Kolor is my love letter to these devices."

Theres more gorgeous pictures of the units he sampled, I encourage you to go to the website and check it out:

https://www.feltinstruments.com/kolor

"At the heart of the plugin lie four shelving equalizers, selected for their vibrant vintage flavour and complimented by a wide range of complimentary modules: tilts, presence bands, a graphic EQ and filters - all meticulously captured from hardware so rare you didn’t know it even existed.

Together with five stunning AI-modeled vintage preamp sections, you get a signal chain you’ll use whenever you want a bit of that analog fairy dust. Which, to me, is pretty much all the time."

Devices Sampled:

SHELVES

- LIE Berlin Tube Equalizer " An ultra-rare LIE Belin tube equalizer, created for French radio. Bold, lively, and characterful. The shelves can be switched between two different center frequencies - each with their own unique character."

- FODU "A one-of-a-kind equalizer, custom-made by a forgotten manufacturer FODU for an iconic Polish animation studio. Most likely, the only one of the 61 made that survived. Clearly inspired by the Klangfilm mastering equalizers, but with a personality of its own. Lush, sweet, and warm. Each band comes with three frequency settings, which bend the curves beautifully."

- Swedish "A passive shelving equalizer crafted for the Swedish broadcast industry. Ultra-open highs, tight bass, and all the ‘oomph’ you need. I prefer its shelves to the Klangfilm RZ062b, which contributed the tilt band to this plugin. To me, that’s the very essence of a hidden gem - sounds stunning, yet nobody sings its praise.

- KINAP "Completely overbuilt using the best components available, this device was made by a Soviet manufacturer, KINAP, for a high-profile recording studio working on sound for movies. Less than 40 were made. The film industry was big in the USSR, and so is this EQ - the coils and transformers are larger than an adult’s head, and the tone is here to match."

- MIDS, BELLS, TILT, AND FILTERS:

- Klangfilm RZ062b "The tilt section was sampled from the inconic mastering equalizer. Quickly change the tonal balance of a track with a single turn of a knob. Many mixes end with this control - find the right balance using the shelves, then fine-tune with tilt."

- KINAP EQ "The mid band of the KINAP EQ has a unique character - turning it left boosts lower mid frequencies, and turning it right provides an equivalent applied to the top frequencies. Combine this with shelves from the main modules to cut and boost at a similar frequency, Pultec-style."

- Tonographie Apparatebau W95c "The boost-only presence section of the Tonographie Apparatebau W95c equalizer allows you to add some 3D vibrancy to your tracks. Unlike a digital EQ, which can quickly get harsh in the mids, this one sounds great, no matter how far you push it."

- French Graphic "A French graphic equalizer, crafted by the boutique manufacturer Picot back in the 1950s. Arguably the least realistic sounding of devices included in Kolor, but that’s also what makes it so nice - it just oozes character."

- Model 560-A "High and low cut filters allow you to keep the frequency extremes under control. Boost with one of the main modules, and then cut with the filter section to experience unusual frequency curves and natural resonant boosts of the filters."

Preamps:

"Kolor comes with 5 ultra-detailed preamp models, cherry-picked from sampled equalizers, and modeled using cutting-edge machine learning technology. Experience euphonic analogue tone and lively harmonics, stunningly captured from some of the rarest and most beautiful hardware devices crafted in the 1950s and 60s."

I think this looks pretty sick and knowing Felt, it will likely be incredible.

Really excited to check it out.

Link is here: https://www.feltinstruments.com/kolor

You can demo it now, but I think it will be officially available for actual purchase on Thursday 6/26 if im not mistaken.

Price: $105 GBP during the intro price ending July 31st according to newsletter email. Not sure what it will be after that