Waves Morgan Page EMP Toolbox

Morgan Page EMP Toolbox

9 Plugins for Electronic Music Production Picked by Remix Master Morgan Page

Grammy-nominated Morgan Page is known for taking hits from pop artists like Katy Perry, Madonna, The Police, Stevie Nicks, and Adam Lambert, then remixing them into slamming tracks for dance floors around the world. His secret weapon: the plugins you’ll find in this toolbox.

From enhancing and riding the all-important vocal, to providing the special effects that lift a track up another level, this hand-picked collection delivers creative inspiration and technical refinement.

H-Delay Hybrid Delay

H-Delay’s comprehensive control set delivers chorusing, flanging, echo, tape delay, looping, doubling, slapback, resonance, vibrato, self-oscillating feedback, and more. Best of all, it covers the sonic range from funky, old-school delays to today’s state-of-the-art sound quality.

With its accessible interface, straightforward controls, and a huge variety of presets, H-Delay can kick-start your creativity in seconds—it’s no wonder people call this their “desert island delay.”

H-EQ Hybrid Equalizer

All EQs have different characters, but no other plugin lets you choose one of 7 different console characters for each of 7 bands of EQ. From US and UK vintage, to US and UK modern, to two flavors of digital EQ, this amazing versatility always lets you choose what’s right for your music.

Process left and right channels independently or link them, do mid-side processing, and add variable analog color and THD to the vintage EQs. This is the EQ that does it all—superbly.

L3-LL Multimaximizer

The L3-LL Multimaximizer has the same 5-band dynamics engine as the L3 Multimaximizer, but cuts latency dramatically by using phase-compensated crossovers instead of linear-phase filtering. Now you can use maximization live or for tracking—with the same interface as the standard plugin.

Waves’ proprietary Peak Limiting Mixer, ARC automatic release control, and ability to set band priorities are key to delivering unparalleled maximization while retaining a smooth, musical quality.

L3-LL Ultramaximizer

This special version of the L3 Multimaximizer not only reduces the user interface to essentials, but substitutes phase-compensated crossovers for linear-phase types, to yield a dramatic reduction in latency. Now you can dial up your ideal maximization in seconds—whether for stage or studio.

Suitable for individual instruments, groups, or the final mix bus, the combination of Waves’ Peak Limiting Mixer and automatic release control give maximum level, with maximum sonic purity.

Maserati VX1

Contour 1 provides the sound of studio recording, 2 is a larger chamber, and 3 is a small room with delay optimized for uptempo songs. These aren’t just different reverb or delay settings, but involve incorporating the right effects for squeezing out subtleties, or engulfing vocals in a full production.

Created in close collaboration with Grammy winner Tony Maserati (Beyoncé, Jason Mraz, Robin Thicke, more), this is the easiest way to bring his platinum vocal sounds into your studio.

NLS Non-Linear Summer

Analog consoles are known for richness, depth, and harmonic complexity—not because they’re perfect, but because they aren’t. This is why pro engineers revere how analog summing colors audio. And now, Waves has spared no effort to capture the sound of 3 superlative analog consoles.

Whether you prefer the solid-state console that launched thousands of hits, the tone of vintage British tubes, or even the console used to record The Dark Side of the Moon—NLS brings them to your DAW, modeled from the consoles of master mixers and producers Mark “Spike” Stent (Paul McCartney), Mike Hedges (The Cure), and Yoad Nevo (Sia).

SoundShifter

Without a doubt, the most demanding digital audio processes are stretching time and transposing pitch. SoundShifter offers high-quality results for both processes, with three specialized components provide different, optimized functionalities.

With all DAWs, use SoundShifter as an insert effect. With Pro Tools, you can also shift a selection’s speed and pitch with a fixed ratio, and even change ratios in a selection by drawing an automation graph.

TrueVerb

TrueVerb splits reverb controls into 4 clearly defined sections: early reflections, reverb tail, EQ, and damping. In addition to being a complete reverb solution in itself, the detailed early reflections editing—and low CPU power—also make it an ideal “front end” to augment early reflections for convolution reverbs.

30 included presets get you started quickly, but don’t stop there—the streamlined interface and straightforward parameters encourage customizing the settings for your own needs.

Vocal Rider

Vocals are the focus of almost all popular music, so they need a consistent level that’s never buried in the mix. But automating levels manually is tedious, and using heavy compression to even out the vocal levels ends up coloring your vocal sound.

Vocal Rider saves you time by riding gain automatically, while preserving the vocal’s full fidelity. Set a target level for the vocal, and Vocal Rider will take care of the rest. It unobtrusively raises or lowers the vocal’s gain to maintain the target level—just as if you were making fast, precise fader moves.