Which two free waves plugins should I choose?

robinbowes

I bought some Waves plugins over Black Friday, and can choose two more for free.

Any recommendations? Any "must-haves"?

R.

Whitecat

Where is the list of what you can choose from? Generally they don't include everything...

What do you already have?

poopot

Vocal rider and cla vocal

robinbowes

https://www.waves.com/black-friday-2020-choose-your-free-plugins - you may need to login.

I have:

• CLA Echosphere
• CLA Vocal
• Scheps OmniChannel
• Waves Tune Real-time

R.

poopot

In that case.

scheps 73
vocal rider (can use this on anything)
torque

robinbowes

Scheps 73 and vocal rider are not included in the list, sadly.

This is the list:

Abbey Road Chambers

Abbey Road Vinyl

API 550

API 560

AudioTrack

Bass Rider

Bass Slapper

Berzerk Distortion

Brauer Motion

BSS DPR-402

C1 Compressor

C4 Multiband Compressor

Center

CLA Bass

CLA Drums

CLA Effects

CLA Guitars

CLA Unplugged

CLA-3A Compressor / Limiter

CLA-76 Compressor / Limiter

Clavinet

Cobalt Saphira

dbx® 160 Compressor / Limiter

DeBreath

DeEsser

Doubler

Eddie Kramer Guitar Channel

Eddie Kramer Vocal Channel

Electric 200 Piano

Electric 88 Piano

Electric Grand 80 Piano

Element 2.0 Virtual Analog Synth

eMo D5 Dynamics

F6 Floating-Band Dynamic EQ

Flow Motion FM Synth

GEQ Graphic Equalizer

Greg Wells PianoCentric

Greg Wells ToneCentric

Greg Wells VoiceCentric

H-Comp Hybrid Compressor

H-Delay Hybrid Delay

H-EQ Hybrid Equalizer

Infected Mushroom Pusher

InPhase

IR1 Convolution Reverb

IR-Live Convolution Reverb

J37 Tape

JJP Bass

JJP Drums

JJP Guitars

JJP Strings & Keys

Kramer HLS Channel

Kramer Master Tape

Kramer PIE Compressor

L1 Ultramaximizer

Linear Phase EQ

Linear Phase Multiband Compressor

LoAir

Manny Marroquin Delay

Manny Marroquin Distortion

Manny Marroquin Triple D

Maserati ACG

MaxxBass

MaxxVolume

MetaFilter

MetaFlanger

Morphoder

MV2

NLS Non-Linear Summer

Nx – Virtual Mix Room over Headphones

OneKnob Brighter

OneKnob Filter

OneKnob Louder

OneKnob Phatter

OneKnob Pumper

OneKnob Wetter

PAZ Analyzer

Q10 Equalizer

REDD

Renaissance Axx

Renaissance Bass

Renaissance Compressor

Renaissance DeEsser

Renaissance Equalizer

Renaissance Vox

S1 Stereo Imager

Sibilance

Smack Attack

SoundShifter

SSL G-Equalizer

The King's Microphones

Torque

Trans-X

TrueVerb

UltraPitch

Vitamin Sonic Enhancer

VU Meter

W43 Noise Reduction Plugin

Waves Tune LT

Z-Noise

poopot

Ah ok... I’ve got most of those in that list...

The three I get the most use out of in that list are j37 tape, Abbey road chambers, and ssl g eq...

but it depends what you will be using them for I guess... the j37 is only useful for adding a bit of grit and you can do that with omni channel anyway!.

John_P

I'd look at Renaissance Vox and CLA Drums 

Legionreturns

Where, if anywhere, is your current library lacking? 

robinbowes

Legionreturns said:

Where, if anywhere, is your current library lacking? 

Good question.

TBH, I don't know. I'm relatively new to this. By "this" I mean DAWs. I worked in studios and live sound in the 80s but tech has moved on somewhat since then.

My current common use-cases are:

mixing live multitrack recordings of my band 
recording/mixing a duo I play in (female vocals)
recording myself doing covers (guitar/vox)

I also quite fancy experimenting with some electronic stuff - think Röyksopp/Goldfrapp 

R.

spark240

R-Vox and Lo Air are cool...

Legionreturns

Have you got a decent synth? If you're wanting to play with electronic music, it's good to have several to call on. 

robinbowes

Legionreturns said:

Have you got a decent synth? If you're wanting to play with electronic music, it's good to have several to call on. 

No, not yet.

I've got Mainstage and a tiny usb Midi keyboard. I want to get a better keyboard/controller soon. Still feeling my way in to try and figure out what I should get.

R.

Legionreturns

I should add, if, like me and most other people, you try a few different verbs/comps/gates/delays and then settle on a favourite. 

If that's the case then just try stuff you don't have

spark240

Ah Yes...Element 2 is a groovy vst ....Ive used it loads for songs here and there.

PolarityMan

L1 if you dont already have it  the CLA-76 I quite like too