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 …
Waves Renaissance Compressor - "Analog sound with digital accuracy"
Compression has been probably the number one effect ever since The Beatles started using it heavily. There is always a battle between trying to find a compressor that sounds organic and vintage, yet…
Waves Renaissance Channel - "Awesome audio mix chain"
Channel strips have long been something that's been emulated in the digital world. However, a lot of them don't seem to capture that awesome sound that so many channel strips have (SSL for example).…
Waves Renaissance Bass - "Beefs up the bass"
Bass can be one of the hardest things to mix. The low frequencies itself are harder to hear than midrange frequencies, and there are a lot of sound systems out there that have trouble capturing the …
Waves Signature Chris Lord-Alge - "A modern Rock - Pop guru in your DAW!"
Waves Native Chris Lord Alge Artist Signature Collection. 6 Pc and Mac Compatible mixing and reamping plugins that have some unique processing underneath, created with Chris Lord Alge and some of …
Waves Renaissance Axx - "Simple "dynamics compressor""
Compression has long since been a staple of today's music. It's been one of the most used and abused effects to ever hit the market. A lot of compressors out there are extremely complex and contain…
Waves Q-Clone - "Vintage hardware EQ clone"
The Q-clone is basically a unique plugin that allows you to select between different EQs out there by utilizing different impulses. You can even create your own from your hardware you have. That al…
Waves PS22 - "Solid stereo spreader"
Stereo spreaders used to be all the rage back in the day. Today, they're not utilized nearly as much thanks to you being able to easily do it inside of the DAW with very minimal effort. Most people…
Waves Q10 Equalizer - "A classic parametric EQ"
Waves has been around for a long time. I think they've officially been around for about 20 or so years now. During the 90s, they released a plugin that was a parametric EQ. This parametric EQ sing…
Waves MV360° - "5.1 surround dynamics processor"
This is meant for anybody who works with 5.0 or 5.1 audio on a regular basis. One of the biggest issues faced with working with audio that's not stereo is trying to find plugins that can adjust ever…
Waves MV2 - "Simple compressor that sounds good"
Compression has been the effect of choice for nearly everything ever since the 60s. This is actually a very simple compressor compared to some of the other plugins out there, including the other Wav…
Waves Morphoder - "A vocoder taken to the next level"
The vocoder has gotten a lot of attention lately. In fact, most people talk about using auto tune and cranking it to snap to the grid, but the vocoder has been doing a similar effect for almost 70+ …
Waves Mondo Mod - "Unique rotation modulator"
Achieving those AM and FM modulation sounds isn't exactly the easiest thing in the world. Way back when, I was using my pickups and a wah to act as an antenna to get some sort of sweep recorded in m…
Waves MetaFlanger - "Awesome flanger"
Flanging has long been a heavily used technique in the rock world. In fact, it almost got to the point where it was overused, but it seems to be going out of style at the moment. That's good for th…
Waves MaxxVolume - "Watch your clipping levels carefully"
Volume is easily the most overused and abused thing in the music industry today. Low mixes make things sound lacking in production, and overly hyped volume causes extreme ear fatigue. Waves tries t…
Waves MaxxBass - "Neat bass shaper, but easy to overuse"
In electronica music, the number one thing you always want is some huge bass that really thumps you in your chest. Because of that, Waves made this plugin to help those who are trying to achieve tha…
Waves Maserati GRP - "Interesting master buss finalizer"
Tony Maserati is one of the top music engineers and producers. He's done stuff from the Simpsons to Tupac and nearly everything in between, but his major focus tends to be on the more R&B/rap/rock s…
Waves Maserati VX1 Vocal Enhancer - "Solid vocal enhancer"
Tony Maserati's music mostly focuses on things like vocals, and this plugin is a great plugin to show off how he approaches things. The plugin itself has knobs for sensitivity, bass, compress, trebl…
Waves Maserati HMX Harmonic Generator - "Very nice on the master buss"
Harmonic generators can be a true godsend to certain mixes. They can really add some cool depth and life to something that would otherwise sound a touch dull. Tony Maserati has been a long time mas…
Waves Maserati GTi Guitar Toner - "Solid, but I prefer other methods"
Tony Maserati mainly deals with stuff in the R&B field, so it was interesting to see him help co-design a plugin where guitars aren't the prominent instrument. Because of this, I feel our philosophy…
