ZL Eq, a free Pro Q alternative ? – Effects Forum

Just tried it. It’s not as intuitive to use as Pro-Q3 but the features are absolutely top shelf! Very nice dynamics section. Exceptionally flexible and very good sounding. This is probably the finest free Pro-Q like alternative out there.

Usability wise it’s still got quite a bit of development to be done to be close to Pro-Q3 in operation. For instance, if you select multiple filters and then change gain, it is only added to the overall gain of the filters instead of relatively controlling each bands gain.. so you can’t easily select 4 filter nodes and reduce or increase their gains proportionally.

Sound wise ZL Eq sounds “cleaner” than Pro-Q3 in my opinion. Noticeable when dragging a filter node around high frequency content. It’s just less “grainy” sounding around the edges somehow. Probably the filter shape is a bit different compared to Pro-Q3.

Overall this is a real winner!