Presets
Outboard-EQ ships with 133 factory presets across four categories, plus a user library and a personal default slot.
Outboard-EQ ships with 133 factory presets across four categories, plus a user library and a personal default slot.
Categories
Open the Presets pill in the header to see four built-in categories plus your user library:
Instrument
Per-source starting points — kick, snare, percussion, vocals (lead / male / female), bass family, acoustic / electric / synth, pad, strings, brass, live drums, vocal stacks.
Mixing
Bus-processing presets — drum bus, vocal bus, synth bus, metal guitar bus, mix bus commit, smiley & glue, pop parallel, FX return, NY parallel smile, tribal toms.
Mastering
Genre-aware mastering presets — pop, rock, hip-hop, rap, EDM, trance, dance, classical, country, electronic, streaming, podcast, R&B, metal, lo-fi, jazz, reggae, DnB, ambient, vinyl, club, beats, festival — plus correction tools (de-esser, de-mud, low-end cleanup, de-harsh, tilt reference, pop centre M/S).
Character
Hardware-emulation presets — color box, bass drive, console tape, cassette / walkman, Neve console, SSL bus — each in Subtle, Classic, and Pushed variants.
User library
The User flyout shows your own saved presets, stored as XML in:
- Windows:
%APPDATA%\EQUILIBRIUM\UserPresets\ - macOS:
~/Library/Application Support/EQUILIBRIUM/UserPresets/
Save As…
Saves the current full plugin state as a new user preset. The filename is sanitized to be safe across operating systems.
Targets you save from EQ Match with its Save as… action also land here — recall them from User Presets to reuse a captured reference curve as a Match target.
Delete
Removes a user preset from the library.
Default slot
The Default slot is a special user preset that loads when you instantiate a new Outboard-EQ. Use it to set your personal "first impression" state — e.g. Y-range ±24 dB, spectrum on, K-meter scale on K-14.
Save as Default
Captures the current state as your default.
Load Default
Loads your default into the current instance.
Reset
Reverts to Outboard-EQ's factory default (clean curve, all stages off).
Default file location: %APPDATA%\EQUILIBRIUM\Default.xml (Windows) / ~/Library/Application Support/EQUILIBRIUM/Default.xml (macOS).
How preset apply works
Loading a preset writes every preset-stored parameter through the same gesture-wrapped path as a manual edit, so the DAW sees one clean undo step and one automation snapshot. The plugin internally suspends per-gesture history capture during the apply so it doesn't flood your undo stack.
Tips
- Start from a Mastering genre preset that matches your material — they're calibrated for typical streaming-loudness targets and make a solid first pass.
- Save your most-used starting state as the Default. New instances will open ready to work instead of clean.
- User presets are plain XML — they're version-controllable, shareable, and editable in any text editor if you need to surgically tweak a value.