Waves Live

Live

Over 55 essential plugins for superior live sound

Experience Next-Level Live Sound

Enhance your live sound with our comprehensive bundle of 57 plugins, meticulously selected in consultation with live sound engineers. These plugins are designed to provide effective, creative processing for your live mixing needs.

Whether you’re controlling dynamics, creating space, fixing feedback and mic bleed issues, or automatically riding gain on vocals, our Live bundle has the essential tools you need to deliver outstanding performances.

Essential Live Sound Tools for Your Show

Achieve Superior Live Sound with Proven Precision Tools

Mix live with confidence using industry-proven precision tools. From the C4 Multiband Compressor to the L-series limiters to Vitamin, these trusted processors are tested to handle diverse live sound challenges.

Resolve Live Sound Issues

Tackle mic bleeding issues effortlessly with the PSE plugin, eliminate feedback instantly using X-FDBK, and ensure your PA system’s phase integrity by aligning the subs and tops with the Sub Align processor.

Bring Your Mix to Life with Industry-Favorite Effects

From H-Delay and R-Verb to the IR-Live Convolution Reverb, create rich, immersive soundscapes and add rhythm and texture to your mix.

Mix Live Vocals with Precision

The Vocal Rider plugin automatically adjusts volume levels, ensuring consistent and balanced vocals throughout your mix. The legendary R-Vox provides smooth and transparent vocal compression like no other plugin. To control sibilance and harshness, our DeEsser and Sibilance plugins effectively tame unwanted frequencies, delivering a polished and professional vocal sound.

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.

eMo D5 Dynamics

Whether for live mixing or for studio work on music, voiceovers, or narration, eMo D5 incorporates 5 essential dynamics processing solutions: Compressor, Gate/Expander, Leveler, Limiter, and DeEsser. The fast response, and clean, transparent sound, make eMo D5 a superstar on stage or in the studio.

This plugin is all about effective, seamless solutions—and dialing up those solutions fast, thanks to the single-window, touchscreen-friendly interface that places every parameter at your fingertips.

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.

eMo Q4 Equalizer

With zero latency, ultra-low CPU consumption, multitouch response (with a generous interface size), transparent sound quality, and full integration within the channel strip of the eMotion LV1 live mixer, this 4-band paragraphic EQ comes fully optimized for live sound.

On stage, you don’t have time to dig into menus. With eMo Q4, all parameters are on one screen, and touch-sensitive—you can probably fix an issue before anyone even knows it’s happening.

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