hey what's going on out there I'm Sean Divine hope you all are doing well a couple months ago I was
having a conversation with a friend and we were talking about what plug-in we feel like we really
need as waves users you know what's kind of like a hole in the lineup that needs to be filled now
reverbs are really really tough for me because a lot of times if you get one that's great it's
very CPU heavy it's going to kind of bog down your session or if you get one that's really
lightweight it sounds really cheap and just not authentic also the reverbs generally take a long
time to dial in to get them to work in your mix well the promise with waves new plug-in Magma
Springs is that it's lightweight you can dial in your settings really quickly and it sounds very
Musical and authentic so we're going to put it to the test I'm going to let you hear it on a number
of different sources here so you can judge for yourself so let's go ahead and dive in [Music]
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my life a fight song feeling all the pressure with the lights on what they
say been changing when you're the one the world is rearranging
all right and with Motor City my life a fight song feeling all the pressure
with the lights on what they say been changing when you're the one the world is rearranging
very nice tail there let's play it back in the context of the mix
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so if you're not familiar with what a spring reverb actually is essentially we're talking
about physical metal Springs that are between a transducer which is going to activate the
spring or a series of Springs and then on the other side we have a pickup that's going to
convert that into our signal or our Reverb itself now we refer to the different Springs
as Reverb tanks and magma Springs has seven of these Reverb tanks or different types or
styles of Reverb and these can vary depending on the length of the spring how many Springs there
are and how they're dampened and so on and so forth so you get some really cool Styles
here that we can switch between in the springs interface to give us some instant variations and
then we can also control the length and it just gives you three settings short medium and long
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so it's a very easy interface to navigate you have the controls you need none of the stuff
that you don't on the left we have a drive that is going to control the input section
we can get some harmonics and some saturation out of it if we want to drive that heavily we
have a traditional pre-delay which you see on most reverbs we have a feedback
control which if we do that we can get some really nice sort of artifacts on the tail end
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and on the right we have our tone controls for treble and bass and then we have a mix
so if you want to just put this directly onto your track like I have here you can utilize
that mix control or if you want to use this as a send just set it to 100 and control that send
accordingly you have your output and then we can also switch this between a stereo signal or a mono
Reverb if you prefer I'm going to go through all seven of the tanks here with a vocal and
I'll switch some settings just on the Fly Just so you can hear how this can work in the context of
the mix and just a lot of the variations that we can create here in magma Springs
my life a fight song feeling all the pressure with the lights on what they say been changing
when you're the one the world is rearranging my life fight song feeling all the pressure
with the lights on what they say been changing when you're the one the world is rearranging
my life a fight song feeling all the pressure with the lights on what they say been changing
when you're the one the world is rearranging my life a fight song feeling all the pressure with
the lights on what they say been changing when you're the one the world is rearranging my life
feeling all the pressure with the lights on what
they say been changing when you're the one the world is
so as you can hear they're utilizing the seven Reverb tanks we get a very broad range of tones
and Vibes that we can use and then utilizing our different controls here between the drive
the pre-delay and our tone controls and stereo and mono you know you have a pretty infinite amount of
different options that fit very well in the mix and I know that waves is likely presenting this
more as a guitar Reverb or an instrument Reverb but I really like this on vocals my Takeaway
on this is I'm really psyched to have a capable Reverb and the waves line up like I've mentioned
before I've utilized Renaissance Reverb and rverb a lot just because it's a lightweight plug-in it's
reliable and it sounds pretty good for what it is but I think this one sounds more convincing more
authentic in terms of just the type of Reverb it is but it also matches a lot of different
things well it has a vibe that works for vocals it sounds really good on guitars and drums it
just gives me something that I haven't had in my palette of Reverb plugins now real quick I want
to address the waves subscription conversation I know I haven't really talked about it I've been
getting a lot of questions just asking me how do I personally feel about you know everything that
happened as far as that rollout and how do I feel about subscriptions in general specifically you
know waves ultimate well the the situation as far as how it was actually rolled out in terms
of you know waves users the only choice was to have a subscription for the first period of time
I didn't think that it was rolled out properly and obviously waves realized that as well I also
believe in forgiveness I believe we all make mistakes they apologized and they came back
and brought the Perpetual licenses and I think that they're providing a lot of different options
trying to cater to a lot of different types of users so I think they're doing the best they can
to fix that but that is a separate thing than how I actually feel about the subscription itself the
waves ultimate specifically I feel like that got overshadowed by that all of that rollout sort of
drama the wave's ultimate subscription is actually a tremendous value I am subscribed personally I'm
paying for it because you get over I think it's 230 Waves plugins or 240 Waves plugins it's all
the waves plugins and that includes a lot of really essential industry standard stuff in
there some really cool stuff that I didn't even know was there and I've started using some of the
different waves plugins in that and I've been really excited about it so if you're just not
for subscriptions it's not for you obviously I've been doing Perpetual licenses up until now but I
did subscribe because again just for the amount of plugins you get access to and the price per month
there is no other subscription out there a plug-in subscription that gives you that much value period
that's my personal opinion anyway I hope you all have fun with Magma Springs let me know
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