Mystic offers a refined EQ section designed to enhance your mix with silky-smooth shape control. Ideal for mix and master buss processing, its Hyper EQ delivers brilliance and airy clarity without harshness, while maintaining a fat and clean low end through gentle shelving filters. These EQ curves feature wide bandwidth and minimal phase distortion, allowing for dramatic boosts and cuts that feel natural and smooth. Rather than reshaping sound radically, Mystic excels at subtle sweetening that enhances sources so transparently you might barely notice the effect, paying homage to the timeless tone control principles pioneered by Peter Baxandall.

The preamp section of Mystic captures the warmth and character of vintage valve channel strips from the 1950s and early 1960s, combined with advanced modern technology. This all-tube signal path is complemented by custom-wound transformers on both input and output stages, faithfully recreating classic preamplification and saturation with enhanced performance thanks to Hyper technology. The result is a channel strip that brings vintage charm and modern clarity together, delivering rich harmonic content and authentic valve saturation that elevates any recording or mix.

Mystic’s dynamic section features a dual-mono Opto limiter with natural attack and release, preserving transients while taming peaks gracefully. It is especially suited for vocals, bass, guitars, and drum loops, offering smooth compression that avoids harshness. Custom modes expand its capabilities, providing fast, intuitive control to keep mixes lively and musical. Additionally, innovations like the HyperPre3 and HyperSat3 saturation techniques introduce dynamic, three-dimensional harmonic distortion that maintains transient integrity and delivers exceptional clarity, making Mystic a powerful tool for mastering and mixing with a touch of vintage character.