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Published on 07/01/11 at 17:59Probably one of the most famous engineers out there is Jack Joseph Puig. He's done everything from 311 to U2 and beyond. Considering his popularity, it was only natural that he would get some famous mixing/mastering plugins, and Waves stepped up to build and offer them to the public. This plugin features toggles to select between clean, rock, R&B/Amp and chub, a sentsitivity, lows, highs, comp, and master knob, a meter switch to select between output modes, mains control and faders that adjust edge, warm, sustain, doubler, verb, attack and presence.
This plugin is a plugin for those who are looking for an all-in-one solution to his or her guitar mixing. It has its own built-in EQ, compressor, reverb and more. I never experienced any compatibility issues with this plugin, so no problems there. I can't say anything regarding the manual as I never read it, but the plugin is fairly simple to use.
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
Waves is king when it comes to things like stability and performance. JJP Guitars is nice and solid, and I've yet to experienced a single crash when using it in my main DAW -- Logic Pro. The plugin itself is also cross platform compatible, so there shouldn't be any problems running this on both Windows and OS X. I do have a fairly minor issue, however. All of these plugins are 32 bit plugins, but my DAW is a 64 bit DAW. Because of that, there needs to be some sort of bridge program to utilize these. In an ideal world, these plugins would be 64 bit so I wouldn't have to run a separate application to use these. That said, the plugins don't take up much RAM, and that's a good thing as you'll probably have multiple instances of these things.
OVERALL OPINION
I don't really use this plugin that much. I like to do things differently when mixing guitars. The first thing I always do is add a high pass and low pass filter. That'll give the guitar some room in the mix to stand out and filter out the useless frequencies that may muddy up the mix. Next, I'll add a multiband compressor to help even out those boomy palm mutes. The final thing would be adding maybe a touch of compression or reverb, but it depends on the overall mix that I'm doing. In essence, I don't mess with the guitar tone that much. Because of that, i never found a ton of usage for this plugin, but it's not a terribly bad plugin.
This plugin is a plugin for those who are looking for an all-in-one solution to his or her guitar mixing. It has its own built-in EQ, compressor, reverb and more. I never experienced any compatibility issues with this plugin, so no problems there. I can't say anything regarding the manual as I never read it, but the plugin is fairly simple to use.
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
Waves is king when it comes to things like stability and performance. JJP Guitars is nice and solid, and I've yet to experienced a single crash when using it in my main DAW -- Logic Pro. The plugin itself is also cross platform compatible, so there shouldn't be any problems running this on both Windows and OS X. I do have a fairly minor issue, however. All of these plugins are 32 bit plugins, but my DAW is a 64 bit DAW. Because of that, there needs to be some sort of bridge program to utilize these. In an ideal world, these plugins would be 64 bit so I wouldn't have to run a separate application to use these. That said, the plugins don't take up much RAM, and that's a good thing as you'll probably have multiple instances of these things.
OVERALL OPINION
I don't really use this plugin that much. I like to do things differently when mixing guitars. The first thing I always do is add a high pass and low pass filter. That'll give the guitar some room in the mix to stand out and filter out the useless frequencies that may muddy up the mix. Next, I'll add a multiband compressor to help even out those boomy palm mutes. The final thing would be adding maybe a touch of compression or reverb, but it depends on the overall mix that I'm doing. In essence, I don't mess with the guitar tone that much. Because of that, i never found a ton of usage for this plugin, but it's not a terribly bad plugin.