Waves Audio
Waves Audio is the world-leading developer of audio technologies
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Overview
Waves is the world’s leading developer of professional audio plugins for music production, mixing, mastering, live sound, and post-production, over the past 30 years. Waves is the recipient of Technical Grammy® and Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards in honor of its innovative software, which is used to create hit music recordings, major motion pictures and TV shows, and top-selling video games. Waves also offers licensable algorithms for consumer electronics to dramatically enhance audio performance in products by Dell, Google, Fitbit, Asus, and more.
Waves sells individual plugins and curated bundles, and also offers Waves Creative Access, a subscription that covers more than 240 plugins. Its online services include AI-based mastering, the Voice ReGen tool for removing background noise from audio and video, the ILLUGEN text-to-sample engine, and Waves Stream for real-time audio streaming during remote collaboration. StudioVerse gives users access to an online library of plugin chains from within their digital audio workstation. The company also offers audio courses taught by Grammy-winning engineers.
For live sound, the company makes hardware such as the eMotion LV1 Classic mixing console, SuperRack LiveBox, SoundGrid servers and SoundGrid interfaces. It also offers Tracks Live software for live multitrack recording and the TRACT system calibration suite.
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Recent posts from the Waves Audio blog
- Keep your tracks balanced, punchy, and clear without constant manual tweaking.
Waves IDX identifies and smooths out dynamic frequency buildup as it happens. Watch Steavy D from Sound Spa Productions walk through the primary controls and demonstrate its impact on a lead vocal session.
- Stacking reverbs is a classic analog mixing technique that translates perfectly into the DAW.
By layering three distinct instances of Atlas Reverb (a warm room for depth, a bright mono room for focus, and a non-linear gated patch for crunch), you get massive drum ambience without washing out the snare.