Pulsar Modular releases P410 Joyride - Tone Flux Graphic Equalizer Plugin

Pulsar Modular has announced the release of P410 Joyride, a 10-band tone-sculpting equalizer fusing harmonic coloration, flexible proportional Q, and musically scaled frequencies. P410 Joyride redefines what a graphic EQ can do. Sometimes, sound isn't about balance. It's about movement. About color that breathes, bends, and glows. P410 Joyride isn't here to fix your mix; it's here to make it feel alive. A journey through tone, texture, and harmonic light. Welcome to your next obsession. The 'Tone Flux Graphic Equalizer' captures the dynamic, fluid interplay between tone, color, and harmonic motion within P410's design. Each EQ band models an LC (inductor-capacitor) resonant circuit instead of purely RC (resistor-capacitor) network like most modern EQs. This gives it that distinctive 'smooth yet weighty' tone associated with vintage passive or semi-passive equalizers. Ziad Sidawi, Audio Equipment Designer & CEO, gives some background Graphic equalizers have a reputation that spans decades. For some, they bring back images of 1980s hi-fi stacks—cassette decks, turntables, and brushed-aluminum preamps flanked by slider-filled front panels. Others consider them to be tools for taming room acoustics in live rigs. And truthfully, that's where most graphic EQs remained: useful, but too rigid for the critical demands of mixing and mastering. With fixed frequency points and inflexible bandwidth, they lacked the precision and adaptability that parametric designs made standard in high-end studios. P410 Joyride was born from the idea of reinventing what a graphic EQ can be. It's equally at home shaping the tone of a single instrument, giving weight and clarity to groups, energizing the mix bus, or delivering the subtle precision required in mastering. By combining the immediacy and visual clarity of sliders with innovations like variable proportional-Q, scalable gain structures, harmonic drive engines, and multiple frequency layouts, Joyride turns a once 'limited' format into a tone-shaping, mixing-and-mastering-grade processor. I call P410 Joyride a 'Tone Flux Graphic Equalizer': the word Flux captures the dynamic, fluid interplay between tone, color, and harmonic motion within P410's design. Each EQ band models an LC (inductor-capacitor) resonant circuits instead of purely RC (resistor-capacitor) networks like most modern EQs. This gives it that distinctive 'smooth yet weighty' tone associated with vintage passive or semi-passive equalizers. The result is an equalizer that doesn't just show you ten sliders; it invites you to shape sound in bold, musical strokes and without compromise. Whether you're making subtle mastering refinements, sculpting a bus, or pushing creative boundaries on individual tracks, P410 Joyride delivers precision, character, and joy in equal measure. P410 Joyride turns EQ into an experience—part precision, part adrenaline, and all about the joy of pushing sound further than you thought possible. Ziad Sidawi, Audio Equipment Designer & CEO, Pulsar Modular Features 10-band inductor-base graphic EQ. Variable proportional Q. SCALE spread frequency bands. 6 drive engines to design your input transformer. Near-zero latency. CPU friendly. Pricing & Availability P410 Joyride is available for macOS and Windows in VST3, AU and AAX plugin formats for the introductory price of $191 (Reg. $225). YouTube.com/watch?v=hQ4KILR856U YouTube.com/watch?v=XmvZiCFbpVQ Read More