waves are having an early black friday sale and i wanted to go through the list of plugins that they
have on for sale and pick out my top nine picks from that list and i think i've come up with nine
pretty amazing plugins i could have easily come up with like 25 or more because they have some
excellent plugins available in this sale right now i'm zane welcome to audio tech tv i've included
links to all of these waves plugins down in the description in case you want more information
on any of them this video is not sponsored it's just something i wanted to create so
what is this early black friday sale well basically most of the plugins that are
included in this sale are just 29 and you can buy a second one for thirty percent off a third
one for forty percent off and a fourth one for fifty percent off so the more you buy the more
you save now the first plugin on my list is one that was released not too long ago this is waves
cla nx it's an excellent virtual mix space plugin that's based on chris lord alge's
studio if you mix with headphones then this type of plugin is a huge help to get your mixes
to translate across devices what i like about this one is that in addition to giving you an excellent
mix space to monitor your mix through with two sets of speakers to switch between you also get
this little boom box that you can switch to and then you can hear what your mix will sound like on
smaller consumer grade devices during this sale you can get this plugin for just 29 the next
waves plugin that i would grab during this early black friday sale is the puigtec eqs you actually
get two eqs with this you get the eqp1a and this is a replication of the pultec eqp1a
that's in jack joseph Puig's studio and i use this plugin all over the place and i love it the other
plugin that you get is the meq5 and this is based on the mid-range focus pultec of the same name
use this one on vocals or guitars and you're going to get great results this package is currently
going for 29 during this sale plus whatever savings you get from purchasing multiple plugins
next up is the waves abbey road plates reverb this is one of my absolute favorite reverb plugins
i use it all over the place it's a replication of the four plate reverbs found in the legendary
abbey road studios you can switch between the four plates and each one sounds different plus
you get a bit of an eq a drive setting analog settings mix controls and more
the reverb that this is made from has been used on huge records from some of the biggest
bands in music if it's good enough for them it's way too good for me but waves makes it
affordable for me to use so i do it's just 29 during this black friday sale and well worth it
up next is the waves api 550 eqs this is another one that includes two plugins and one
you get the api 550a and api 550b plugins the b version gives you more eq centers to work
with but i always use the api 550a i like how it sounds it's easy to set up and i use this
all the time on my electric guitars but lately i've also been using it on my drums as well
these plugins are modeled after the hardware api 500 series eqs of the same
names and despite the limited controls they can really enhance whatever track you add them to
for 29 this is one that i would definitely grab if i didn't already own it
here's another abbey road plugin to grab during this black friday sale this is the waves abbey
road tg mastering chain this one is modeled after the emi tg12410 transfer console that's been used
in all of abbey roads mastering suites since the early 70s and they continue to be used today
this is a modular mastering chain plugin and it's primarily designed for mastering
but you can also use this on tracks and buses as well it can process audio in stereo, duo
and mid-side which i like to widen my mixes with i use this one as part of my final master processing
after i do the final mix down of my song but i've also used this on drum busses and some
other tracks as well it's an excellent tool to have in your arsenal and for 29 it's a
steal
the next waves plug-in that i would grab during this early black friday sale is the scheps 73.
i actually think i purchased this one during another black friday sale a couple of years ago
Scheps 73 is modeled after the classic neve 1073 console eq and mic preamp you can use this one
to add some excellent color to your tracks the eq is great on vocals and guitars plus i'm sure
many other tracks as well and i really like the saturation that you can get from this plug-in
i use it on vocals and bass guitars to get that classic neve sound if you're
after a plug-in that's going to add some nice vintage character the scheps 73 can deliver
the next plugin that you should consider is the waves cla mixhub this is such a cool plugin
first off it's modeled after chris lord alge's mixing console so you get the subtle coloring
of that console even with no settings changed with the dynamics section you can switch between
the console compressor or clas legendary bluey compressor which is very cool you get a great eq
section plus you can use the mic control to add some nice saturation plus there's a slot where
you can insert another waves plug-in into the chain so having this very cool channel strip is
great on its own but if you really want to emulate the console you can add the light version of this
plugin to all of your tracks and control them all from the bucket view within a single instance of
this plugin so it's like working with a console you don't have to switch between plug-ins or
anything like that you just go to the bucket view and select the track that you want to control
and you can set it to control up to 64 tracks as each bucket can have eight tracks and you have
eight buckets it's a very cool idea and for the channel strip alone it's worth the 29 dollars
now another abbey road plugin on this list this is the waves abbey road
reel adt and i know i have several abbey road plugins on this list already but
anytime these go on sale they are a must get for me
and there are some others in this black friday sale that i really wanted to add to this list
but then it would have just been all abbey road plugins and i wanted to give a little variety now
the real adt is based on the abbey road artificial double tracking process which was used in the 60s
quite a bit and i love this on my backing vocals and depending on the project i'll also use it on
lead vocals as well and sometimes i even throw it on lead guitar it's a very cool effect to
have in your collection and it can be used all over the place for 29 this is an excellent
plug-in to grab
and here's another one from the waves cla collection this one's actually a bundle of
plugins this is the waves cla classic compressors when i was making the list i started adding these
individual compressors that are included in this bundle and then i noticed that the bundle
itself is on there so i added that instead and with the wave cla classic compressors
you get the cla76 which includes the blacky and bluey versions you get the cla2a and the cla3a
all of these are excellent classic compressors that every studio should have
the 76 and the la2a i use very often now this bundle isn't $29
it's $69 and that's a great value because of the compressors that you get with it
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