Internal Affairs

Every Channel Is Under Investigation.

Internal Affairs is a mastering EQ built around one idea, you shouldn’t have to
pick between working on left and right and working on mid and side, so it does
both at the same time. Four rows, Channel 1, Channel 2, Mid and Side, and every
row is a complete EQ of its own, a low cut, four parametric bands and a high
cut. Channel 1 and 2 work on the left and right channels, then the signal splits
into mid and side, the Mid row works on the center of the image, the Side row
works on the difference between the channels, and everything goes back together.
Brighten the center, darken the sides, notch one resonance that only lives on
the left, all in one pass, all in one window.

Six Bands, Four Rows

Each row has a Low Cut from 20 to 400 Hz, a Low band from 40 to 600 Hz, a
Low-Mid band from 200 Hz to 2 kHz, a High-Mid band from 1 to 10 kHz, a High band
from 2 to 16 kHz and a High Cut from 8 to 20 kHz. Low and High can be a shelf or
a bell, every band gets frequency, ±12 dB of gain, a Q from 0.1 to 10 and its own
power switch, and both cuts give you 6, 12, 18 or 24 dB per octave. Everything
starts flat and the cuts start off, so nothing changes until you touch something.

Link, Gain Sync and the Rest of the Panel

Link locks Channel 1 and 2 together, every band and the input and output gains,
so a stereo move stays a stereo move. Mid and Side never follow it, splitting
them is the point. Input Gain and Output Gain run ±12 dB on each channel, Gain
Sync turns the Output knobs to the opposite of the Input knobs so your level stays
where it was while you push, Mono sums the output so you can check what survives,
Delta plays only what the EQ and Saturation are changing, and Bypass is a clean
bypass.

Saturation and Oversampling

Saturation is one knob from 0 to 100%, warm, and level-matched, so turning it up
never fools you with extra loudness, and at zero it’s off, completely. It works
when Oversampling is on, 2x, 4x or 8x, and the EQ rows and the saturation run at
that higher rate together, with a fixed latency your DAW compensates for. Set
Oversampling to Off and it’s a pure EQ with no latency at all, and the
Saturation knob sits it out. Two lights beside the knob tell you whether
saturation is available and whether it’s actually doing anything. When nothing is
engaged the audio goes through untouched at any setting.

Meters, Presets and the Window

Two VU meters show In, Out or M-S, the Mid and Side level of your output, and
they’re average meters, 0 sits at -14 dBFS RMS. Ten factory presets, Clean
Record, Interrogation Lamp, Hard Questions, Wire Tap, Cold Case, Good Cop, Bad
Cop, Witness Protection, Plea Bargain and Evidence Locker, are starting points,
gentle on purpose, and A/B, Save, Save As, Copy, Delete, Import and Export handle
your own. The window resizes and remembers its size. Demo mode runs the full
plugin and silences the audio for 2 seconds every 30 seconds.

Everything on the Panel

Four EQ rows (Channel 1, Channel 2, Mid, Side) with Low Cut, Low, Low-Mid,
High-Mid, High and High Cut, Input Gain 1 and 2, Output Gain 1 and 2 (±12 dB),
Saturation (0–100%), Oversampling (Off, 2x, 4x, 8x), Link, Mono, Gain Sync,
Delta, Bypass, and Meters (In, Out, M-S).

64-bit VST3 for Windows, macOS, and Linux; 64-bit AU for macOS. Perpetual
single-user license with three simultaneous activations.

Internal Affairs. Every channel is under investigation.