Waves

The special requirements for mixing 5.1 surround require a custom combination of plugins. 360° Surround Tools handles all the fundamentals, and mor...

The unmistakable sonic signature of Abbey Road Studios’ echo chambers was born in the 1950s. This plugin, designed in close collaboration with Abbe...

Since stereo was patented at Abbey Road in 1933, Abbey Road Studios have introduced multiple innovations in recording technology and defined the ar...

The Beatles created Abbey Road, their last-recorded album, using the TG12345 channel strip—but the TG12345 itself was just at the beginning of an i...

Tape’s warm-sounding harmonic distortion made classic tracks come alive. J37 delivers the true sound of the all-valve analog tape machine—Abbey Roa...

In the 1920s and 30s, EMI crafted microphones for British Royalty—King George V, King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth—but these gorgeous mics sat ne...

In the 60s world of limited channels and tube-driven audio, the REDD consoles—custom-built by Abbey Road’s in-house Record Engineering Development ...

Reel ADT is the only plugin that delivers the authentic tape delay-based Artifical Double Tracking effect, created by Abbey Road Studios’ legendary...

Plate reverbs have a diffused, bright, idealized sound quality that’s unlike acoustic spaces. Developed in collaboration with Abbey Road Studios, t...

You've heard the original units on almost everything the Beatles recorded at Abbey Road. You've heard it, most famously, on Paul McCartney’s immort...

Even the most modern productions revere the classic sounds of the 50s and 60s—like those from the RS56, the very first parametric EQ. A silky smoot...

From light saturation for an exquisite vocal or synth edge, to heavier saturation that gives bass and drums palpable punch, to industrial-grade may...

Abbey Road has set a standard of excellence for decades, and mixing there is an experience only a few can have—until now. Thanks to advanced 3D aco...

From the 70s to today, from Pink Floyd to Ed Sheeran, the EMI TG12410 Transfer Console has defined the Abbey Road Studios sound. At long last, Wave...

The warm tonal character of music pressed onto vinyl remains coveted to this day. Now, for the first time, Waves’ close collaboration with Abbey Ro...

In the 70s, the Aphex Aural Exciter had almost mythical status. It ‘excited’ tracks by restoring the highs lost through the recording and playback ...

In studios around the world, the API 2500 has earned a reputation for always being able to deliver the right solution for virtually any compression...

The API 550 introduced visionary EQ curves. Q varies with gain, so boosting adds a more focused musical quality—while reducing gain provides natura...

API 560’s proportional-Q filter topology is known for its smooth, forgiving sound. For mic overheads, pianos, guitars, and other complex sound sour...

Half a century ago, API blazed a new trail in audio processing. The API 550A and 550B EQs prioritized musicality and transparency, while the API 56...

When working in your DAW, there’s no need to put together a basic channel strip from multiple plugins—AudioTrack has already done the work for you....

B360 meets the ever-increasing demand from YouTube, Facebook, gaming, VR, sound effects libraries, and others for 360? mixes using the industry-sta...

Bass Fingers captures the sound, and the naturally warm vibe, of finger-style bass. 14,000 samples feature multiple velocity layers, natural sustai...

Bass is the foundation of most tracks. But mixing bass is a challenge, because low frequencies are hard to reproduce and hear. Heavy compression is...

Slapping bass with your thumb makes such a cool sound, but it’s impossible to sample… right? Not anymore. 3,700 multisamples, with round-robin note...

There’s nothing quite like the magic of huge-sounding analog tube saturation—and this one must be heard to be believed. An original-design plugin f...

Wild and versatile, Berzerk zooms past today’s boutique analog distortion pedals with more parameters, more creative options, and breakthrough feat...

Brauer Motion takes panning into a new world of spherical motion that goes beyond conventional left/right panning. Now sounds can move within a mix...

This comprehensive plugin collection is the audio professional’s choice to master, repair, refine, and polish soundtracks, narration, effects, and ...

The Broadcast and Surround Suite includes high-end tools to ensure a smooth, engaging, highly professional mix for TV, radio, and streaming product...

In the later eras of hardware, this processing powerhouse was huge for live sound, broadcast, and studios—thanks to VCA compression, peak limiting,...

With instantly hyped vocals that cut through the mix and a sound that is dripping with character, Butch Vig Vocals now gives everyone the opportuni...

The classic C1 combines a musically pleasing dynamics sound with rich features and functionality: Compression, expansion, upward expansion, gating,...

The C4 blends an optimum combination of compression, expansion, limiting, dynamic EQ, and standard EQ to edit both dynamics and EQ with ease and ac...

C6 is ideal for serious audio surgery on individual tracks and masters. Its extreme flexibility comes from 4 configurable frequency bands—and 2 add...

It’s never too late to fix a “finished” stereo mix—with Center, you can widen or narrow the stereo image, change the balance of sounds panned to th...

Let mix legend Chris Lord-Alge take care of your sound—while you focus on your music. Each of these plugins distills Chris’s entire mixing chains—f...

Grammy winner Chris Lord-Alge (Foo Fighters, Green Day, Muse) has laid down some of the punchiest sounds ever for modern rock music. CLA Bass trans...

Chris Lord-Alge’s big, aggressive mixes squeeze every ounce of power out of his compressors. Whether he chooses the CLA-2A’s sweet smoothness, the ...

Grammy winner Chris Lord-Alge (Springsteen, Green Day, Muse) says it best: “When creating the CLA Drums plugin, I had one thing in mind—anyone who ...

Sometimes you want to go beyond basic processing—and so does Chris Lord-Alge (Foo Fighters, Bowie, Nine Inch Nails). CLA Effects puts the “special”...

The secret to space, depth, and dimension in your mixes is to blend different delays and reverbs on the same track, and route them smartly to each ...

Guitars are the sound of rock, and Grammy-winning engineer Chris Lord-Alge knows guitars. His hits with guitar-focused bands like Foo Fighters, Gre...

The mix bus is the last stop before mastering, so engineers often add bass shelving EQ, treble for sparkle, a “glue” compressor, and console emulat...

Mixing on a big analog console is magical. Now, CLA MixHub brings the rich sound of mix legend Chris Lord-Alge’s (Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteen, ...

Compared to mixing in a beautifully tuned mix room with world-class monitors, mixing through headphones used to be a poor substitute. But that’s in...

Acoustic instruments play in an acoustic space, so enveloping them with a realistic ambiance is crucial to the mixing process. Chris Lord-Alge (Foo...

We worked with Grammy-winning mixer Chris Lord-Alge to pack his six favorite vocal effect, each with three optimized variations, into a plugin that...