Acustica Emulation Hardware List:
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Amethyst - Amek M2500 console equalizer + Amek 9098 compressor. Rupert Neve designed gear. 9098 has a 33609 flavor.
Amber - Avalon AD2055 equalizer
Aquamarine - Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor (formerly the Murano)
Blue - Chandler Germanium Tone Control
Coral - A hybrid mastering strip featuring an elliptical filter, transparent equalizer and a soft clipping compressor inspired by SPL Iron Compressor and PQ
Green - George Massenburg Labs Model 8200 equalizer
Emerald - Custom built hardware, loosely inspired by the Klein & Hummel UE 1000 equalizer. The curves practically have the same unique slope as the UE-1000, but the center frequencies are different and the active part of the circuit is more modern/cleaner
Ivory IAE-2 - Maselec MEA-2 equalizer
Honey - 1970s era Harrison 32C equalizer + Harrison console preamp
Lime - A combination of modern AMS Neve gear. A = VR B = 88RS. C/D = 8051 5.1 Surround Compressor/Limiter E = FJ V Series Channel Strip
Magenta - Manley Labs Massive Passive equalizer
Navy - Neve console line input/1081 EQ circuit. Neve 1081 equalizer and unknown (probably Neve 80 series) console line outputs.
Ochre - Acustica Audio homebrew equalizer, inspired by the Scientific Audio Electronics (SAE) 2800 equalizer.
Orange - Orban 672A
Pearl - Siemens ELA 75-15 Universal Equalizer. Limited edition, only 100 Pearl software copies were sold so it’s no longer for sale. Less than 20 physical hardware units were sold. The closest plugin to this that is still for sale is the Emerald, as this was Siemens’ response to the UE100/UE1000 mastering equalizers. (Plugin discontinued?)
Pink - API 512c preamp. modified API 550A/550B equalizers with API 2500 compressor (no Thrust [pink female gender button] variables)
Pink2412 - API 2500 compressor with modifications
Purple P-1 - Pultec EQP-1A
Purple M-5 - Pultec MEQ-5
Red - Joemeek VC5 Meequalizer
Sand - Solid State Logic 4000 (Ea, black knob)/5000 (Eb, brown knob) equalizer + SSL G-Master Buss compressors (2 flavors)
Scarlet MHE-400 - DIY Sontec 432 inspired (close to the original, even cleaner sounding)
Tan - IGS Audio Multicore Compressor (one band)
Titanium - Tube-Tech SMC 2B Multiband Compressor
Ultramarine - Fairchild 670
White - White Sound Mastering WSM PEQ-2.0 (solid state equalizer inspired by the Pultec EQP-1A)