Dangerous Music BAX500 – Single-Slot 500-Series EQ

OVERVIEW

The Dangerous Music BAX500 brings the legendary, ultra-musical Baxandall curves of the acclaimed BAX EQ to a single-slot 500-series module with absolutely zero compromise. It’s the ultimate velvet vocal tracking and mixing EQ, with broad shelves that shape several octaves at once, so each small move delivers a big result: vast open top, solid bottom, and a polished, expensive sense of dimension that makes your mix feel finished – not EQ’d.

Built for tracking, mixing, and mastering, BAX500 gives you the classic Dangerous BAX tone-shaping workflow in a compact format, with High and Low shelves plus High Cut and Low Cut filters to control the frequency extremes that steal headroom and cloud translation. Use one for mono sources or run a pair for stereo buses when you need that audiophilia BAX high-fidelity sweetening on your mix.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

Who It’s For:

Engineers who want to shape tone musically during tracking, mixing, or mastering – without pinching the sound or introducing harshness. Those who seek truly audiophile-level, high-fidelity sonics.

Why It’s Different:

The BAX500 reimagines the common Baxandall circuit, with the purity of design from one of the last great analog designers. It broadly unlocks the depth, sheen, and gravitas to help you stop mixing and finish it.

Applications:

• The ultimate velvet vocal tracking and mixing EQ
• Cut guitars, bass, kick, synths and instrumentation through it
• Mix bus and stem polishing and sweetening (in pairs)
• Mastering EQ (in pairs)
• Clean up infrasonic rumble before it hits compression or your DAW
• Reduce ultrasonic noise during tracking and mixing
• Add air, sheen, and weight without harshness or glare

Tech:

• Baxandall high and low shelving EQ
• High Cut and Low Cut filters with transparent and musical slopes
• DC-coupled signal path up to the Low Cut filter
• Relay-controlled hard-wired bypass
• Mastering-grade custom components
• Hand assembled in the USA

FEATURES

• The BAX500 shelving EQ shapes several octaves at once, so each small move delivers a big result with a vast open top end, grounded bottom, and a polished, expensive sense of dimension.
• High Cut and Low Cut filters remove infrasonic rumble and ultrasonic interference flawlessly to open up your headroom, dynamics and translation.
• Wide-band shelving for smooth and natural sonics, without phase incoherence and harshness that often plague narrow, surgical EQ moves.
• Musical 12 dB-per-octave filter slopes deliver smooth, organic results that sound natural and pleasant while controlling the frequency extremes.
• Gentle ±5 dB gain range crafts simple, musical decisions with small boosts or cuts, delivering surprisingly large results.
• Relay-controlled hard-wired bypass completely removes the filters or entire circuit from the signal path for true A/B comparisons with no buffering or colouration.
• Mastering-grade custom components are selected for both performance and sound, delivering stunning imaging, clarity, musicality, and detail.
• DC-coupled signal path avoids transformers and electrolytic capacitors, preserving transparency, low-end clarity, and phase accuracy.

TECHNICAL SPECS

Format: 500-Series Module (Single-Slot)

EQ Type: Baxandall High and Low Shelving EQ

Shelving Gain Range: ±5 dB

Shelving Behaviour: Broad Bandwidth Shelves Shaping Several Octaves

Filters: High Cut and Low Cut Frequency Filters

Filter Slope: 12 dB per Octave

Bypass: Relay-Controlled Hard-Wired Bypass (Filters and Full Circuit)

Signal Path: DC-Coupled Up to the Low-Cut Filter

Components: Mastering-Grade Custom Components

Dimensions (In the Box):

• Depth — 20.3 cm (8 in)
• Height — 15.2 cm (6 in)
• Width — 10.2 cm (4 in

Weight (In the Box): 0.91 kg (2 lbs.)

Assembly: Hand Assembled in the USA

Warranty: 2 years