Metering plugins are essential for mixing and mastering. Dorrough provides loudness monitoring for all stereo scenarios. Overall, the API’s parameters are extremely musical, making it a go-to for engineers. The dual channel 2500 can be run as two mono channels with a single compressor setting. The API 2500 dynamics processor is no exception, letting users carefully craft the punch and tone of their mixes with accuracy. Waves has worked very closely with API to faithfully reproduce each plugin’s hardware counterpart. Try it out on a drum buss or an entire mix. Like the two previously mentioned hardware emulations, the SSL buss compressor has an optional “analogue” switch to add or remove noise generated by the devices. You’ve likely heard a hundred engineers talk about the compressor’s ability to “glue” elements together, which Waves’s version has sought to reproduce. SSL entrusted Waves, under license, to develop a replica of their renowned 4000 G console master buss compressor.
By combining both the EQP-1A and the MEQ-5, you’ll have access to a full vintage, analogue EQ chain. If you’re unfamiliar, Pultecs offer the unique ability to both boost and cut a single frequency at the same time, creating a resonant shelf. PuigTec EQs (Pultec emulation)Įmulations of the iconic Pultec EQP-1A and MEQ-5 equalizers of the 1950s. You’ll likely find that the smooth, frequency-dependent quirks of the original unit are accurately, if not uniquely, represented by the Waves plugin.
There’s just a lot of them that you should consider trying yourself! As its name and look suggest, the CLA-2A is based on Teletronix’s LA-2A leaving amplifier developed in the early ’60s. It sure seems like it, but Waves doesn’t only model fantastic compressors.
There’s also an included 50 or 60 Hz analogue hum for some added flavor, if desired! CLA-2A Compressor/Limiter (LA-2A emulation) Waves offers two revisions inspired by the mid-1960s compressor, including both a “Blacky” and a “Bluey.” With attack settings as fast as 50 microseconds and the famed “all buttons in” mode, the CLA-76 is an excellent choice for in-the-box mixing. UREI’s original 1176LN compressor/limiter is one of the most used and desired pieces of hardware ever produced. They are all now provided to you in one flexible yet fully cohesive channel strip plugin.” CLA-76 Compressor (1176 emulation) The Omni Channel is designed to provide the best of the analogue and digital worlds: “Through years of mixing diverse music genres, Andrew Scheps has perfected certain combinations of go-to processors – some based on classic hardware units, some being innovative modules developed from scratch – each with its own unique character.