Waves Pluggins

  • Thread starter Thread starter foreverain4
  • Start date Start date
F

foreverain4

New member
what makes them so good. i hear people saying they are the best all the time. why? anybody use them? i am thinking about getting these, but they really do have a heafty price tag......
 
They are excellent plugins and well worth the money but you have to know how to use them. It takes time like anything else..
 
They are excellent plug-ins, and i use them all the time. Especially the Renaissance Compressor and the Renaissance EQ.

But what makes them so useful is not just the sound quality, as there are many other companies making plug-ins that sound just as good. Rather, it is the fact that you get both a wide variety of high quality effects and processors in one package, and the fact that different Waves plug-ins can share the same TDM chip, so you can cram more of them into a given session than you might by using similar plug-ins from other manufacturers. (I use them in a Pro Tools TDM system, so not sure if that applies to other platforms).
 
They are awesome. No doubt! I also like Renn. Comp and EQ. I also like RVerb very much. Don't forget L1 Ultramaximizer, it is very useful.

Beezoboy
 
i use the L1 ultramaximizer, the c1 compressor and the q10 eq. I haven't used the renesance collection, are they much different? I also use max bass sometimes and Trueverb.

They are excellent. I have the c4 but i don't use it, too complex and easy for me to sqrew up.
 
oh yeah, i forgot about the L2. that's practically worth the price of the whole package.

TDM is Digidesign's system of using DSP chips on PCI boards to take over the real time plug-in processing from the host computer. In the TDM system, the host CPU does little more than draw the screen, save to the hard drive, and do some other things like sample rate conversion.
 
are these plugs somewhat more taxing on a cpu? does the fact that they process at 32 bit make a difference....
 
Yes they are very taxing on the cpu. Well not THAT taxing, but yea taxing.
 
The Renn. vox rules try it on the 15 day trial, you can at the waves web site. It's 200 for renn 2. I think if you get power pack and either of the renn 1 or 2 (1 is cheaper at 150) you can get a nice discount on the gold package.
 
ambi said:
Whats the difference between the L2 and the L1?
Click to expand...

It functions more or less the same, but it's supposed to sound even better.
 
I got the Waves Gold package a couple weeks ago.
It was very expensive and I admit it is over my head at this point. But................

Like you said foreverain4, there are a ton of people here who sing its praises, and after listening to their stuff I was convinced that I can only do so much with what I had.
I am happy with it and in time I hope to use it to its fullest (where needed!) There are some powerful plugins here and it will take time for me.

You can purchase "parts" of the Gold package. Go to Steinbergs website and search the online store.
Maybe you don't need the whole enchilada, but you can get the L1, C4, and alot of the most popular ones in smaller packages for a fraction of the cost.
Right now I am drowning in the Spectrum Analyzer (PAZ)
I had quite a few "mixed" tunes and I am trying to learn how to compare to others that way.

scottboyer said it best that it takes time.

If you are really serious about getting you finished product to the next level I would say you won't be disappointed!
 
Last edited:
I've been having a lot of luck with the Linear Phase EQ and particularly the Linear Multiband Comp. The mulitband, to me, is world's more useful than the C4 . . . so much so that the C4 is all but useless to me now.

What makes the Linaer EQ cool is the fact that you can apply it after compression without dramatically changing the dynamics again. With the other stuff, if I had even a minor eq tweak to make, I might find what was once a nicely compressed track all of a sudden not being so compressed anymore. :D
 
Chess,

are you using the linear phase stuff on individual tracks or on the stereo buss as a mastering tool?
 
Both, although for the individual tracks, it can sometimes throw off the alignment (it has some natural latency to it) which generally isn't too difficult to compensate for. It's worth it, imho. Just make sure you got some spare RAM. ;)
 
chessrock said:
Just make sure you got some spare RAM. ;)
Click to expand...


A good point !

I had to add 256 to my system after getting the plugins

luckily it is cheap, and easy to do.
 
they are ram intesive as well as cpu? i have a p3 1ghz with 512mb of ram. will i be ok? or will these things push my system. i may have to start using fx sends instead of putting a different reverb on every track. will i not be able to do my normal 12 to 24 tracks?
 
i guess what i am trying to figure out, i have been using sonic foundry's pluggins. are the waves going to be any heavier than SF's?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top