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Waves Renaissance Vox

Software compressor from Waves belonging to the Renaissance series

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Published on 11/18/10 at 13:26
The Waves Ltd. Renaissance Vox is a vocal compression plug-in that comes with a variety of different Waves bundles, but not as an individual plug-in as far as I know. I've got the full bundle of Waves plug-ins at home and have also used this plug-in at the studio where I work since I do a lot of going back and forth between home and the studio. I installed the plug-in along with the rest of the Renaissance plug-ins and the full set of Waves plugs. It should be a quick and easy process, as virtually every DAW will be compatible here. Learning the plug-in is also pretty easy if you understand the basics behind using a compressor/limiter/gate. The parameters that it gives you to work with here are for gate threshold, compression amount, and gain make up. Each also has it's own corresponding meter. It's super simple to use, so it would even be a good place to start for those who are just getting into using compression. It's included in some of the cheapest bundles that Waves has to offer as well. A manual shouldn't be necessary with Renaissance Vox.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

I've currently got the Waves Ltd. Renaissance Vox plug-in running in Pro Tools 9 on my system at home. I just upgraded to Pro Tools 9, which I can run as a standalone piece of software or with my Digi 002R audio interface. The computer I'm running everything on is a Mac Book Pro that has a 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 4 GB of RAM. This has definitely been an adequate system for me to run this plug-in on, as I've yet to have any issues with performance with it.

OVERALL OPINION

The Waves Ltd. Renaissance Vox is a nice little compressor/limiter/gate to have in your plug-in suite. It's not anything revolutionary, but gets the job done for simple compression on vocals. I haven't used it for anything beyond vocals as it seems silly to even try since Waves has a Renaissance plug-in for virtually every application. I will say that while it's not my go to plug-in for vocal compression, it has a full sound that's realistic and shares the same sort of quality as most of the other Renaissance plug-ins. Since you can't buy this plug-in on it's own, it's really only worth checking out at all if you're going to buy a Waves bundle. Most of the Waves bundles will have this plug-in it in, but I wouldn't say that it's worth it for this one alone. Check out the full line of Waves plug-ins if you're interested in this one, as they have bundles for users on all levels, most of them including Renaissance Vox...