Waves Manny Marroquin Distortion

10x Grammy winner Manny Marroquin (Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Lizzo, Future) isn’t your ordinary mixing engineer, and this isn’t your ordinary distortion. Parallel processing layers distortion that growls and teases instead of crushes—thicken digital synths, add grit to bass amps, toughen up drums, and more.

As Manny Marroquin says, “Whether or not it’s audible, sometimes I just want to feel distortion.” Now, you can feel—and hear—distortion that imparts a distinctive character to any sound.

Features:

1. Created with mix engineer Manny Marroquin (Kendrick Lamar, Lizzo)
2. Excels at making synths sound less sterile, and fit better in mixes
3. Pre-distortion compressor shapes the dynamics
4. Release determines whether distortion lingers with note tails
5. Makes single-coil pickups sound less thin and more assertive
6. 4 pre-distortion EQ stages focus on the frequencies to be saturated
7. Beefs up drums for a bigger, more powerful sound
8. Attack control determines how rapidly the distortion develops
9. With subtle settings, makes vocals punch more than with a limiter
10. The ideal fix when some sounds are just too “clean”

Requirements:

• mac
  • cpu:Intel or Silicon Architecture
  • ram:8
  • disk:16
  • version:macOS Catalina 10.15, Big Sur 11, Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14
  • additional_requirements:Minimum: 1024x768
    Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
    USB displays are not supported as the primary display.
• windows
  • cpu:X64 compatible Intel or AMD CPU
  • ram:8
  • disk:16
  • version:Windows 10 64 bit and Windows 11
  • additional_requirements:Minimum: 1024x768
    Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
    

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