Top 10 Waves Vocal Plugins
by The Press Desk
Waves Vocal Rider
Tame the levels on your vocal track without having to set up a compressor or writing automation - you heard it right, that's precisely what Waves Vocal Rider does. This plugin will automatically "ride" a volume fader like a mixing engineer would do by lowering and raising the gain according to the dynamic range you choose. Isn't it wonderful?
Waves Clarity Vx
Clarity Vx is an incredibly powerful AI-powered noise-removal tool geared especially for optimizing vocals. Just turn the big central knob clockwise to hear crystal clear background noise reduction, saving what could be hours of tweaking across multiple processors to sometimes not even achieving a third of the results.
Waves Renaissance Vox
Renaissance Vox, RenVox, R-Vox - doesn't matter what you call it, this plugin will always be a go-to tool for quick vocal processing. It effortlessly works a track within minutes - just use your ears while tweaking the comp and gate sliders and you should be ready to go.
Waves Harmony
Waves Harmony can generate up to 8 voices from a single mono track for instant harmony creation. The plugin can also follow notes played by a MIDI controller, or you can simply draw them with the mouse. You may as well want to adjust pitch, formant, panning, delay, filtering and modulation for each of your composed voices, so go for it!
Waves CLA Epic
The long lasting and prolific collaboration between Waves and Chris Lord-Alge gave us some of the best sounding tools in the market, and the CLA Epic is no exception. Based on Lord-Alge's favourite reverb and delay units, Epic summarizes his workflow on a streamlined plugin that instantly delivers mix-ready effects with minimal tweaking.
Waves Space Rider
More than just a multi-effects plugin featuring delay, chorus and reverb, Space Rider comes with an assignable slider for you to blend its effects without having to do any routing or automation tricks in your DAW. It's all about effortless cosmic effects with this one!
Waves Silk Vocal
Waves Silk Vocal smart EQ & Dynamics Processor is a tool specially designed for enhancing vocals while saving your precious time. An intuitive UI lets you choose between "male" and "female" algorithms alongside streamlined EQ and Compressor parameters. Get rid of unwanted resonances and/or get that in-your-face vocal presence in just a few clicks!.
Waves Abbey Road Studios The Kings Microphones
The custom and super rare EMI microphones made for the British royalty in the 1920s/1930s are revived here in this unique plugin. A great asset not only for vocals but for any sound source that asks for some creative processing.
Waves Sibilance
It's all about precision here: Sibilance is a de-esser that utilizes organic ReSynthesis technology that recognizes "ess" and "shh"’ sounds and surgically reduces them while maintaining the vocal's integrity and original character. Certainly a must-try if you're struggling with tricky sounds from your singer.
Waves Abbey Road Reel ADT
This plugin recreates the precious technique invented by Ken Townsend for tape delay and double tracking effects that were made famous by The Beatles, including the quirky fluctuations that occurred on the reel-to-reel machines of that time.
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