Hmm…UAD called these things ‘bats’. First time I heard that. Anyone seen or heard this term before?
bands? I’ve never heard them called bats.
I kid you not. Neither have I. I thought it was a typo but the manual keeps calling them bats. Whatever…
I can’t see where band or module isn’t sufficient. Like…if I say the orange band, or LMF band, or LMF module…I can’t see where that would fail to communicate a concept.
There’s a ton of short terms out there I’m sure I’ve never heard of. Avid talks about the display screens on the console as an upper garage, a lower garage, and mini garage lol. I didn’t know fader banks were called buckets until I bought this console. But but bats? Hmm…maybe from batch? Who knows.
It’s probably just to make it sound more vintage… Maybe at some point in history, someone referred to them as bats, so if you call them bats, it sounds more exclusive.
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A google and acronym search didn’t yield any information except for references to the UAD plugin.
I found a reference to “Bayesian Analysis of Time Series” and looked at a couple of white papers referencing the term. but didn’t see it being used in audio signal analysis.
Boz is probably correct in his theory.
I’m sure it’s “bats” only because the traces of the eq curves looks a little like flying bats, no more, no less. No acronym involved. Just my gut reaction…
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Ha! - I never noticed that.
That was a new one to me! Lol
Aren’t those curved lines typically “seagulls”? Maybe seagulls didn’t fit as well on the UI. 
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Another reason that came to mind is that in mission planning at NASA, we use schematic summary diagrams that have come to be called “bat charts”, with Earth as the “floor” and the planetary destination as the “ceiling”. The landed spacecraft hang upside down, seemingly, as bats do… hence bat chart. Been doing a fair amount of this sort of work lately, so I had “bat chart” on the brain…!
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is “bats” in all caps?
seems to me what happened was that they used a voice to text converter at some point in the process of making the manual and it just changed “bands” to “bats” and somehow it just slipped thru the editing process. Unless they somehow thought it was going to give them some unique marketing slang so they did it on purpose
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This has the ring of plausibility…!