Waves X-Crackle - "Crackle and pop remover"
With old analog recordings, especially those that have been transferred from vinyl, most people tend to experience the infamous crackles and pops that occur. This can be a real pain to remove manual…
Waves WNS Noise Suppressor - "Solid noise suppressor"
Noise is something that's inevitable with recording, especially guitars. While you don't tend to experience it in a purely digital world with modelers and such (meaning they don't actively induce no…
Waves V-EQ 4 - "4 band vintage EQ"
This is very similar to the V-EQ3 that Waves also has. The main difference between this and the V-EQ3 is that this has an extra band. This plugin is actually modeled after the famous 1081 EQ. Wave…
Waves V-Comp - "When you need vintage comp look no further"
Waves is a solid company that really hasn't failed me yet. Normally I use the SSL plugin for compression but when some of my clients started asking for a more vintage sound I picked this up. Out of…
Waves SSL 4000 Collection - "Great single channel eq and compression"
Install is quick and easy. I wouldn't expect any less from Waves. It comes with some VERY usable presets including the ones from CLA if you want fast results. But I expect most users will read the…
Waves IR-1 Convolution Reverb - "Crazy versatile reverb"
The IR-1 is like the mack daddy of reverbs. It has everything you can think of and then some. They have some crazy algorithms going on in this, and tons of different spaces were pre installed on th…
Waves V-EQ 3 - "Vintage style EQ"
The mixture of vintage sound with the precision, reliability and response of digital stuff is always something that software engineers in the music industry are working to achieve. This is another v…
Waves V-Comp - "Vintage sounding comp"
Waves has a TON of different compressors. In fact, they have so many that I tend to forget which ones to use for which genre most of the time. This is yet another vintage style sounding (and lookin…
Waves Vocal Rider - "Level rider for vocals"
Levels are something that should always be watched, and when you have vocals with a huge dynamic range, constantly tweaking the level with automation gets to be a real pain. Waves has released a voc…
Waves UM226 - "Stereo to 5.1 surround plugin"
Stereo to surround is a huge issue that a lot of people face when they start remixing old movies for today's sound systems. There are two different versions of this -- the UM225 and the UM226. They…
Waves UM225 - "Stereo to 5.0 surround plugin"
When mixing movies today, the biggest thing that people seem to be paying attention to, besides the overall remaster of the video, is the sound. Converting stereo to surround sound can be quite a ch…
Waves UltraPitch - "Crazy good pitch shifter"
Harmonized lines have long since been a staple in music, especially in melodic death metal. Ideally, you want to use two different takes (one root and one harmony) to do a proper harmony, but there …
Waves Tune LT - "Simplified version of Tune"
As I said in the previous review, being off pitch is one of the three main things that can really destroy an otherwise perfect take. Waves has a plugin called Tune that works great for fixing this. …
Waves Tune - "Solid pitch corrector"
Clean singing tends to have a few major drawbacks that come with it. One is pitch, one is "ess"ing on certain notes and the last is breathing. All three of those things can totally ruin what would …
Waves TrueVerb - "Flexible reverb and reflections plugin"
There are quite a few reverb plugins in the Waves lineup, and it's no surprise as reverb is almost always used in a mix somewhere, in some form. A good sounding reverb can make a mix really breathe …
Waves Trans-X - "Transient adjusting utility"
Transients are very important in music, especially in drums. Getting them right can make a mix sound extremely dynamic and realistic. Get them wrong, and it can sound very flat, almost as if a robo…
Waves SSL 4000 Collection - "Waves SSL, "Carve out your sound""
I use the Waves SSL native bundle. The install was very simple. If your planing to buy this then there is no need for the manual as you should already know what you need to use it for. However, shoul…
Waves SSL 4000 Collection - "The SSL Sound "in the box"!"
Waves SSL 4000 Native Collection developed under license from Solid State Logic. Four modeled plugins: SSL E-Channel SSL G-Channel SSL G-Equalizer SSL G-Master Buss Compressor Mac and Pc Co…
Waves SuperTap - "Extremely powerful delay processor"
This is like the mack daddy of delays. This thing has nearly everything you could ever want, and then some. If you ever wanted to do some multi tap delay, it can do it. If you wanted to do some cr…
Waves Sound Shifter - "Awesome time and pitch shifter"
Pitch shifting is an awesome tool if you know how to utilize it. You can do all kinds of different crazy effects with this, and you can even fatten up a mix by imaging the actual track, micropitchin…
Waves S1 Stereo Imager - "Audio spreader"
Stereo spreaders are great, assuming you use them for the right kind of music and use them sparingly. Explaining exactly how the plugin works is pretty difficult, but it basically turns something mo…
Waves Renaissance Vox - "Dynamic processor for vocals"
I'll be up front about this in that I don't use this plugin too often given that I'm a death metal guitarist. When I do vocals, it's mostly guttural stuff with tons of compression and gain boosts. …
Waves Renaissance Reverb - "Fairly nice digital reverb"
Reverb is probably one of my favorite effects to really add depth to a mix. It's been a staple of the 80s LA studios, and it's works awesome on clean passages. This is a pretty powerful plugin, and…
Waves Renaissance Equalizer - "Very powerful paragraphic EQ"
EQ is easily one of the most abused tools in today's audio world. One of the biggest issues I always find is that people tend to boost way too much and bloat up the entire mix. With paragraphic EQs…
Waves Renaissance DeEsser - "Solid DeEsser"
DeEssers can be life savers in mixes, especially when it's something regarding spoken words. I've used plenty of DeEssers throughout the years, and this has always been one of my main choices. For …
