Waves Gold

Gold

45 plugins for top-quality professional mixing in all genres

The Music Industry’s Most Popular Plugin Bundle—for Decades

Over 1 million producers and mixers have bought Gold—the most popular plugin collection in the history of modern mixing. You’ve heard these plugins time and time again on hit recordings, movie soundtracks, and videos because they truly are the gold standard for high-quality, creative plugins that can help build a hit.

Gold delivers the complete mixing experience. Whether you need to bring vocals up front, give instruments punch and power, add spice with special effects, or solve problems—go for the Gold.

AudioTrack

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. Optimize tone with four bands of parametric EQ, banish noise with gating, and tame or boost peaks with compression/expansion.

Because of its low CPU power, AudioTrack can also save time: to have EQ and dynamics available as soon as you start a project, insert an instance in every channel of a basic song template.

C1 Compressor

The classic C1 combines a musically pleasing dynamics sound with rich features and functionality: Compression, expansion, upward expansion, gating, dynamic filtering, sidechaining, and internal sidechain filtering—all in one plugin.

C1 isn’t about ‘color’—it’s about solving problems. The clean, neutral sound complements any sound, because its sole goal is to deliver every type of dynamics processing any project needs.

C4 Multiband Compressor

The C4 blends an optimum combination of compression, expansion, limiting, dynamic EQ, and standard EQ to edit both dynamics and EQ with ease and accuracy. Whether you need to fix flaws, add

intensity, or create character, this multi-purpose, time-tested tool is the answer.

Unlike multiband dynamics processors with rigidly defined capabilities, the C4 is a sonic chameleon that adapts its processing and functionality to your needs, and your tracks.

DeEsser

Inspired by the vintage gear used for precision de-essing and high-frequency limiting, DeEsser tames “ess” and “shh” sounds. As recordings boost high frequencies for greater intelligibility with narration, audiobooks, vocals, and podcasts, de-essing is now more important than ever.

However, de-essing isn’t only about voice. DeEsser’s gentle de-essing action can reduce amp sim harshness, tame cymbals in drum loops, sweeten the sound of digital synthesizers, and more.

Doppler

Speeding cars, airplane fly-bys, railroad trains moving past you—the Doppler effect is an essential sound design tool to create the impact of space and motion. Now, the Doppler plugin provides the aural cues that recreate a realistic environment, and place your sounds within a realistic space.

But as Doppler users have found out, this isn’t just about sound design. Add motion to mixes—percussion, hi-hats, guitars, synths, background vocals, and more—that no other effect can create.

Doubler

Thicken voices, spread mono instruments, suffuse space in mixes, beautify background vocals, augment acoustic guitar parts, do stunning sound design—then go even further.

The secret to Doubler’s sound is that it can reinforce doubling with another layer of doubling. With 4 voices, up to 100 ms of delay, and modulation, Doubler is a classic vocal doubling solution.

Eddie Kramer Drum Channel

Eddie Kramer’s acclaimed production and engineering with Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, and the Rolling Stones tells all you need to know about his drum sound. For a huge Zep-like sound drenched in atmosphere, to a squashed Hendrix sound, to dirty like the Stones, Eddie’s drum expertise can now grace your projects.

Designed for multi-tracked drums, the Drum Channel captures Eddie Kramer’s drum mixing chains in detail. The plugin has optimized settings for toms, kick, snare, high-hat, overheads, and room mics—everything you need to make each part of the kit come alive.

Electric Grand 80 Piano

The CP series of electro-acoustic pianos were integral to the sound of late 70s/early 80s pop giants, from Phil Collins and Elton John to ABBA, U2, Toto, Hall & Oates and Billy Joel. Occupying the space between acoustic and tine-based pianos, the CP series made touring with a piano possible—without needing to haul a grand.

With a more focused sound than acoustic pianos, and a more complex sound than tine-based electric pianos, Electric Grand 80’s reverberant chords and shiny, polished leads slide into mixes with ease.

eMo F2 Filter

So many issues need only a simple high or lowpass filter—prevent bass buildup, reduce hiss, keep low frequencies out of reverb, fix acoustics issues, reduce amp sim harshness, minimize mic p-pops, and more. So why dig through multiple parametric EQ stages to find what you need?

eMo F2 Filter’s touch-friendly interface, full LV1 compatibility, zero latency, and low CPU consumption make it a natural for fixing live performance problems—quickly and simply.

eMo Generator

A test tone generator may not be glamorous… but it sure is useful. When used with a spectrum analyzer (like those in the F6, GEQ, and H-EQ), pink noise reveals filter curves, differences among EQ designs, and distortion components. Or, gate sine waves or noise to supplement drum sounds.

Mix in pink noise to emulate listening to mixes while driving. Use sine waves to find room resonances, ring out PA systems, check your hearing, and more—don’t miss out on this useful tool.

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