Waves Power Pack

Power Pack

Inspiring core collection for mixing and mastering

Start Your Plugin Journey with these Waves Favorites

Many engineers and producers would nominate these as “desert island” plugins—so start here, and find out why so many pros choose Waves. This compelling package includes all the essentials: dynamics, ambience, maximization, delay, equalization, stereo imaging, de-essing, and more.

Whether for mixing or mastering, these plugins form the core of a signal processing suite that adds power to your productions with immaculate sound quality, flexible functionality, and ease of use.

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.

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.

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.

IR-L Convolution Reverb

For hyper-realistic acoustic spaces, nothing beats convolution reverb—it’s like the difference between a photograph of a concert hall, and a painting of a concert hall. However, unlike traditional reverbs, convolution reverbs can have a daunting collection of parameters and options.

IR-L cuts through the complexity. Featuring the acclaimed sound quality of Waves’ IR1 audio engine, you can bring over 2,000+ acoustic spaces into your studio—from stairwells to cathedrals.

L1 Ultramaximizer

Waves’ first-ever limiter, L1 quickly became a favorite among audio engineers, whether to control peaks, change the dynamics and character of musical instruments, or make louder masters that explode out of the speakers.

Transparent and punchy, L1 offers true peak limiting that eliminates inter-sample clipping. It maximizes both the level of the digital signal and the resolution of the final file. It offers superb re-quantization for all bit depths. Its look-ahead peak limiter enables you to increase sound file resolution and production master levels with precise control and dithering options.

Q10 Equalizer

As it celebrates 30 years of service to the pro audio industry, the reason for the Q10’s longevity is simple: it solves problems. The recent 25th anniversary update retains the transparency, versatility, and efficiency of this industry standard, but raises the bar yet again with significant improvements.

With an added proportional-Q curve, double-precision math, and a modern interface that shows all bands or focuses on one, the Q10 is primed for 30 more years of equalization excellence.

Renaissance Axx

For guitar, bass, and other stringed instruments, all-purpose compressors that also have to handle vocals, drums, stereo mixes, and so on—are unnecessarily complex. You would probably just set-and-forget most parameters, and tweak the two or three you actually need.

So, welcome to Renaissance Axx—which optimizes “under the hood” parameters for stringed instruments and similar sounds like plucked synths. The result: Ease of use, with the gorgeous sound of high-end studio compression.

S1 Stereo Imager

Create a massive spread of background vocals or layered guitars. Push reverb and delay further away from the center. Tilt the stereo image. Correct unbalanced loops and stereo mixes. This suite of three plugins has everything you need to alter width, stereo positioning, and stereo imaging.

Whether using the S1 Imager to enhance stereo, S1 Shuffler to also widen bass (with full mono compatibility), or the S1 MS utility for mid-side processing, this toolkit will upgrade your image.

SuperTap

Multi-head tape delays defined the sound of spacey echoes. SuperTap does everything the vintage hardware did, but its 6 independent stereo delay lines deliver far more flexibility.

SuperTap’s modulation, feedback delay, and filtering enhance echoes even more. From evocative solos, to playful polyrhythms, to thick slapback and early reflections, SuperTap is a classic delay powerhouse.

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.