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Mobilize your mashups and mixes with the Mashup app from Waves Audio and Musicsoft Arts. With its advanced playback engine and effects, the app gives iPhone / iPad DJs the tools to scratch, time stretch, pitch shift, and manipulate tracks in their music library.  

Get the sounds and feel of the Fairchild 670 with the PuigChild Hardware Compressor -- the emulation offspring of Waves Audio and famed engineer / producer / mixer Jack Joseph Puig. The new compressor was modeled on the rare beauty in Puig's personal collection.  

With the Waves WLM Loudness Meter plugin on hand, you will never have to wonder if your audio is too loud or not loud enough. The new loudness metering effect plugin provides precision loudness measurement and metering functionality for content creators, post-production houses, and more.  

According to Waves, the new Bass Rider plugin is exactly what you need to get if you want perfect bass levels all the time. A companion to the Waves Vocal Rider plugin, Bass Rider rides bass levels automatically and keeps them in check without changing the natural sound of your bass.  

Waves introduced Eddie Kramer – Tape, Tubes & Transistors, the company's bundle of effects developed in association with producer / engineer Eddie Kramer. The plugin pack includes Kramer Master Tape, PIE Compressor, and HLS Channel.  

Put the finishing touches on your productions with Waves H-EQ Hybrid Equalizer, a mixing and mastering EQ plugin based on popular British and American consoles.  

Don't you wish you could make your drums or bass sound like they were produced by Eddie Kramer or Chris Lord-Alge? Oh wait, you can, with the new Waves Signature Series Bass & Drums Collection. This bundle features nine plugins created in collaboration with Eddie Kramer, Chris Lord-Alge, Jack Joseph Puig, and Tony Maserati.  

The new Waves Signature Series Vocal Collection delivers custom processing chains for vocals, all created in collaboration with super producer / engineers Eddie Kramer, Chris Lord-Alge, Jack Joseph Puig, and Tony Maserati.  

Enrich your tracks with the warmth of tape saturation with Waves MPX Master Tape, a virtual tape effect plugin modeled in cooperation with Eddie Kramer.  

With the new Waves plugin, The King's Microphones, you can work up the skill and the courage to address the nation, just as King George VI did in real life and in the recent film starring Colin Firth as the stuttering, stammering royal highness. The microphone simulation effect plugin recreates the look and sound of three original mics used by King George V, King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth.  

Waves Audio released Waves Aphex Vintage Aural Exciter, the modeled plugin version of the original hardware Aphex Aural Exciter.  

Rather than a full serving of vegetables, Waves Audio V8 gives Waves plugins updated interfaces, the addition of V-Series plugins to selected bundles, improved toolbars and presets, Pro Tools AudioSuite improvements, and more.  

Enter the Waves Audio JJP Mixing Competition for the opportunity to win the JJP Artist Signature Collection or the JJP Analog Legends bundle of plugins. For this contest, entrants are invited to submit their original mixes to be listened to and judged by celebrity mix master Jack Joseph Puig.  

If you're a seasoned sound designer like Scott Martin Gershin or a game audio expert like Charles Deenen, you might want to invest in the Waves Sound Design Suite, a bundle of plugins selected just for sound designers and post-production facilities.  

Video editors, rejoice: Waves has introduced the Waves Video Sound Suite, a bundle of six Waves plugins designed to reduce noise, clean up dialog, maximize volume, re-create room acoustics, and much more.  

The Waves Audio C6 Multiband Compressor sports four crossover and two floating bands plus a sidechain feature, making it a nifty sound-shaping plugin for the studio, live sound, and post production.  

To the Tony Maserati Artist Signature Collection, Waves Audio has added the new Maserati GRP Group Processor plugin designed to put the finishing touches on group tracks and more.  

With the Waves Audio W43 noise reduction tool, you can get features similar to that of the sought-after Cat. 43 hardware noise reduction unit in the form of an easy to use plugin.  

"Now we're getting close to the end here and [HONK] scored a [TOOT] and leading player [HONKKK] has [HONKKK TOOTTT] the game!" Oh, is that annoying? Did you really want to hear the play-by-play of the soccer championship? This time around, Waves Audio wants to make sure that you hear what's going on, and has so created the Vuvuzela Noise Reduction processing chain designed specifically to reduce the sound of the Vuvuzela from televised soccer games.  

With the Waves WSG-Y16 Mini-YGDAI SoundGrid I/O Card, you'll have a direct connection to the Waves SoundGrid platform, plus the capability to run a lot of Waves plugins directly from Yamaha mixing console.  

Get schooled in the art of taking advantage of student pricing, bargains, and special offers -- Qualifying students can now get 50 percent off the list price of certain Waves plugin bundles by completing an application and showing ID.  

We speak with Grammy Award-Winning engineer, mixer, and record producer Jack Joseph Puig about his Waves Analog Legends Plugin Collection and the principals that guide him in the studio.  

Is that Faramir from LOTR? Not quite. It's Jack Joseph Puig, the Grammy-winning producer / engineer who collaborated with Waves on his namesake plugin collection. The Waves Jack Joseph Puig Artist Signature Collection features six application-specific audio plugins: JJP Bass, JJP Drums, JJP Strings & Keys, JJP Cymbals & Percussion, JJP Vocals, and JJP Guitars.  

Waves and Grammy-winning mixing engineer Chris Lord-Alge have packed six Lord-Alge's audio weapons / plugins into the new Chris Lord-Alge Artist Signature Collection.  

Naturally, Waves wants you to be able to run as many of its plugins as possible, so the company has announced new SoundGrid techology, which will allow you to do just that and get low-latency performances using standard components.  

True to their names, the new Waves HLS Channel and PIE Compressor plugins are the faithful re-creations of the the vintage Helios console channel and Pye compressor from the recording chain at London's Olympic Studios.  

Waves devotees can now get more than 50 of the company's most popular plugins in one bundle. Horizon brings together plugins from the Waves Platinum bundle, plus CLA Classic Compressors, JJP Analog Legends, Vocal Rider, and many others.  

Working with multiple plugins at the same time can be cumbersome, so Waves is giving you a way to rack 'em up and organize them as you would hardware instruments in the new software host / virtual studio, WavesLive MultiRack Native  

Get the same functions, features, and ease of use as hardware effects units at a fraction of the price, with the yet to be released Waves MultiRack plugin platform. The software host is like a virtual studio that stores all your effects, plugins, and more.  

Ride the new Waves line of post-production mixing tools: Vocal Rider, WNS Noise Suppressor, and LoAir. Vocal Rider automates the vocal riding part of the mixing process (hence the name), while the Noise Suppressor offers broadband noise suppression on dialog tracks and LoAir creates and enhances LFE content.