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Waves’ latest analogue emulation has unrivalled pedigree. But is there still a role for a mixer that was declared obsolete 40 years ago?
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Waves’ latest analogue emulation has unrivalled pedigree. But is there still a role for a mixer that was declared obsolete 40 years ago?
Making similar signals play nicely together sometimes requires more than just a polarity switch. Enter Waves’ phase-manipulation tool.
Achieving a smooth, even bass part in a mix can require hours of tedious automation — unless, that is, you cheat!
Waves’ latest equaliser can be five different virtual analogue designs at once — and it has some other neat tricks up its sleeve too.
Most of us cannot afford to have Tony Maserati mix our tracks — but thanks to Waves, we can now use his personal effects and processing chains in our own mixes.
More and more material needs to be delivered in surround formats, but what if you dont have the time or the budget for a 5.1 remix? We test the current crop of unwrap plug-ins that can create a surround master from a stereo mix.
With their Vocal Bundle, Waves look to take voice processing and automatic pitch correction to a new level of sophistication.
Waves are tempting owners of Yamaha digital hardware with an updated DSP board and a new selection of additional plug-in processors.
Software guitar amp modelling has been around for a while, but GTR is Waves' first foray into the field — and as you'd expect, they have made a huge effort to get it right, even hiring guitar maker Paul Reed Smith to design a bespoke preamp.
If you are the kind of person who likes to accentuate the transients in their pitch-shifted recordings, before vocoding them and auto-doubling the results, Waves have the perfect plug-in bundle for you...
Caught between TDM, MAS, DirectX and VST? Tangled up in virtual inserts and aux sends? Never fear! Resident Plug-in guru Paul White is here to answer all your most common question, and to help you get the most from software audio processing.
Mac Audiosuite, Premiere, VST, MOTU / PC VST and DirectX; TDM version also available
Reviewed: PC VST...