of the bunch TruVerb is probably the weakest, and it still has some neat tricks up its sleeve. Not my favorite channel strip, but it can be just the thing, especially for live tracks.Īll the effects are excellent, and probably the reason Waves is still installed.ĭoppler, Doubler, Enigma, Hybrid Delay, MetaFlanger, MondoMod, Morphoder, S1 Stereo Imager, SoundShifter, SuperTap, TrueVerb, and UltraPitch Renaissance Channel - another nice surprise. Trans-X - a transient shaper, I prefer the SPL, but this has some neat tricks that the SPL can't do. I still don't need a compressor on most sample library projects, but I do try this one when I do. This works really well on sample libraries, and especially mixes of sample libraries. It really is a matter of the right tool for the job. I have other 'surgical' equalizers now, but I still return to this one sometimes. Probably not all that often for sampled instruments, but for live tracks they can be very handy. They are a little screwy like that.Ĭ1 & C4 compressors - these are not meant to be emulations of anything, they are very flexible compressors, and sometimes that is exactly what I need. I still use quite a few of the Waves Plugins - at some point I upgraded to the Diamond bundle, it was less expensive than buying the few plugins I wanted to add. Depending on your experience and needs the Silver or Gold bundles make an excellent starting point. If you need a comprehensive collection of plugins, and you are just getting started it is really difficult to go wrong with a Waves Bundle.

I know I used the C1 compressor and Q10 equalizer a lot, as well as all their effects.

My first 'pro' plugins were the Waves Native Power Pack volumes 1 & 2, complete with parallel port dongle, and honestly I can't even remember which plugins were included.

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