Drewcifer's Tone Zone

It’s a mono box with big knobs, tubes and transformers. It was made in a little shop in New Jersey between the 1950s and 1970s. The company was called “Pulse Techniques” aka Pultec! The design they pioneered is called the “passive inductor” style of EQ, using passive filters to peak or dip the tones, and then making up the resulting gain-loss with a tube-amplifier on the output. Pultec program EQs are universally considered the the sweetest most musical eqs in history, and are a big fat deal in pro audio. Vintage units are hard to get and demand big bucks. That’s why so many modern companies make Pultec-type equalizers. Here are just a few….