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Published on 12/08/10 at 13:11
The Waves Ltd. Jack Joseph Puig Bass plug-in is one of six found in the Jack Joseph Puig Signature series collection of plug-ins. I don't know exactly how these Signature Series bundles work in terms of the amount of input put in, but as far as I know JJP and Waves worked together in creating these plug-ins. You install the bundle at once, which should be a straight forward process considering nearly all DAWs will support them. As far as learning to use the plug-in is concerned, all of the plug-ins in this bundle share a similar interface style, so once you're familiar with one you should be able to navigate through them all. It's really a simple interface to begin with, with parameters in the form of knobs for sensitivity, compression, input level, and low and high EQ's. It then has sliders for main, edge, attack, sub, presence, length, and master, as well as three modes - DI, amp, or synth, the choose from. It's pretty easy to use, so I wouldn't think you'd need a manual.
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
I'm running the Waves Ltd. Jack Joseph Puig Bass plug-in and the full bundle on my system at home mostly, but have also used it at the professional studio where I work since I do a lot of interfacing between the two systems. My home studio consists of Pro Tools 9 and a Mac Book Pro computer that has a 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 4 GB of RAM. I run Pro Tools with a Digi 002R audio interface and monitor with a set of Adam A7's. I've yet to have any issues at all running this plug-in...
OVERALL OPINION
The Waves Ltd. Jack Joseph Puig Bass is a great one stop shop for getting a great bass sound. In general I like to use individual processors when I'm doing serious mix downs, but for getting a quick and easy bass sound, this is a great plug-in to use. It's awesome because now that I've used the plug-in a bit I've been storing my settings and they work great as starting points for getting bass tones. It's pretty in depth considering the amount of different processors here, but you're still going to get more individual control if you use separate processors. All of the plug-ins in this bundle are like this, so it's cool to have one for each major mixing application. The Jack Joseph Puig bundle isn't my favorite of the Signature Series, but still absolutely worth checking out...
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
I'm running the Waves Ltd. Jack Joseph Puig Bass plug-in and the full bundle on my system at home mostly, but have also used it at the professional studio where I work since I do a lot of interfacing between the two systems. My home studio consists of Pro Tools 9 and a Mac Book Pro computer that has a 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 4 GB of RAM. I run Pro Tools with a Digi 002R audio interface and monitor with a set of Adam A7's. I've yet to have any issues at all running this plug-in...
OVERALL OPINION
The Waves Ltd. Jack Joseph Puig Bass is a great one stop shop for getting a great bass sound. In general I like to use individual processors when I'm doing serious mix downs, but for getting a quick and easy bass sound, this is a great plug-in to use. It's awesome because now that I've used the plug-in a bit I've been storing my settings and they work great as starting points for getting bass tones. It's pretty in depth considering the amount of different processors here, but you're still going to get more individual control if you use separate processors. All of the plug-ins in this bundle are like this, so it's cool to have one for each major mixing application. The Jack Joseph Puig bundle isn't my favorite of the Signature Series, but still absolutely worth checking out...