WESAUDIO Hyperion & Prometheus Eclipse EQS | Full Demo and Review

The future is bright with WesAudio's next-generation 500 series! Introducing the Prometheus and Hyperion Eclipse: a pair of Polish EQs with tasty tone perfection for manipulating and melding your 500 series audio dreams.

Today we're looking at the Titan lunchbox, loaded with two brand new next generation 500 series stereo EQ units, the WesAudio Hyperion Eclipse and the Prometheus Eclipse, the Phoebe preamp, and their Rhea and Dione compressors.

The Titan 500 series chassis is your regular kinda 10 slot lunchbox with a solid external power supply, except there’s an extra connector slot up the top of each connector along the back to accommodate the Wes recall and software interfacing componentry. Each of the Wes units I’m looking at today has a plugin equivalent that you can use to control the hardware, and it sits seamlessly in your plugin stack in your mix window, like any other plugin. So you can control all these via the hardware or software but it’s all hardware processing. It recalls settings, making hardware automation easily replicable every single time.

If you don’t have the Wes lunchbox you can connect each module via the micro usb slot on the front, but with the Titan it’s just a matter of a single USB or ethernet cable on the back to get all this up and running, which is what the ng in the ‘next generation’ 500 series stuff is.

Looking over at the Prometheus, we’ve got a Pultec style, inductor based passive EQ - a low frequency boost and cut (which also does the ‘Pultec trick’), a single boost, and a high frequency cut. In addition it’s got the ability to work in stereo, dual mono, and MS, 15 dB of output boost or cut, and selectable total harmonic distortion. Kinda an upgraded, solid state, digitally recallable Pultec.

The Hyperion is a fully analog 4 band selectable frequency parametric equaliser, with the ability to switch boosts and cuts from a conservative 5dB to a large 15dB, plus a high pass filter that runs up to 350Hz, at either 6 or 12dB slope. The unit is switchable between stereo, dual mono, and mid-side processing, has 15dB of output cut or gain, and the ability to switch total harmonic distortion from off, to medium, to high. Plus you can have an A and B EQ set up and cycle between both to find your perfect EQ variation. It’s got everything you’d want out of a solid state parametric EQ.

The Phoebe preampgives you up to 75dB of gain, it’s got variable, up to 15dB pad, phantom power, phase, an input impedance switch for 1200 to 300 ohms, and a front input too. And how does it sound? It’s a Neve 1073-esque, Carnhill transformer-based solid state number, and it sounds like a good volume boosting preamplifier

We’ve also got the Rhea Vari-mu tube compressor (featuring a pair of Russian 6N3P tubes) and the Dione SSL style solid state compressor. Both are stereo pieces with THD options, and I’ll put both to work in just a moment.

So, these units will all run as standard hardware pieces without connecting em to a computer, no computer necessary. But connecting 'em up is pretty easy. You need to download the WesAudio GCon manager, select your hardware, and connect em up, then the firmware will update, and you can rip straight into the plugin controller. Or even better, just have the control window open while you watch your EQ moves on the hardware unit appear on the screen. It was super easy to set up!

#WesAudio #Hyperion #PrometheusEclipse #EQS #proaudio