Suggest me some nice Waves plugins for mixing:

1. Drums (programmed through EzDrummer2)
2. Guitars (Guitar Rig, Amplitube, etc) (AC30 kinda tone)
3. Bass (Guitar Rig)
4. Acoustic Guitars (recorded through a condenser mic)
5. Pads (Omnisphere)
6. Vocals
7. Backing Vocals

 

Maserati VX1 for vocals.

Bass...Sometimes Maxxbass can beef things up in the right frequency.

Others would know the others better than I.

 

Mesareti GRP (there are drums presets) and DRM for drums.

For guitars there are a few plug-ins actually.

If you wish i can share some of my mixer presets with you

 

@ Mix_to_Master,

As you use several Instruments and Vocals, and above all, because I don't know if you want to particularly 'process' each element separately or the 'whole' Project with some Waves Plugins, despite that your request is related toward : 'Mixing a Pop-Rock Song', here you have my Collection of 'Waves' Presets done by several highly acclaimed Sound Engineers/Producers/Musicians,...

There's several Presets for most of the Waves Plugins (but not all !), nevertheless these will certainly give you very good starting points for your Project(s).
In some cases, maybe only a few adjustments on the provided Settings will greatly help you with your Audio Tracks, Full Song(s),...






'Waves Plugins Artist Presets Collection'



Hope that this Great Collection can help you in some way !

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By the way, the advices and suggestions provided above are GREAT too !!! *yes*

 

SSL Comp
Lo Air
CLA-2A
Trans X
H-EQ
RVox
RComp
IRverbs

 

drums cla-2a with vitman
bass maxx bass with vitaman
guitars ssl comp
pads ssl comp and ssl eq
All vocals izotope nectar

 

Thank you so much man!

 

I love the API 2500, great on busses and master (in feedback mode).
And the other of the API bundle too.
I find a couple of oldies still good, often better than the latest, R-Bass i.e.
Other than these, I always feel less need to use Waves, the alternative are many, and often better.
SSL G-Comp emu -> The Glue
Multiband C6 -> Good but I prefer FF Pro-MB
L3 -> FabFilter Pro-L or Voxengo Elephant

 

It always depends on the mix. My most common ones are Shepps for Buss Eq, Aphex for vox sends. The C6 is my Multiband Comp for Mastering. I love the H-Delay for nice slap qualities. Depending on the sound of the mix I've created, if it lacks a certain sparkle, I'll put the Kramer Tape or J37 on my Main Buss.


Shepps
Aphex Aural
C6
H-Delay
Kramer Tape, J37.

These are great too!

Kramer Pie Comp.
SSL Channel Strip, SSL Buss Comp
Maserati Reverb,
Center Plugin,
REDD
Cla2a, la3a, 1176,
Debreather is really good too.
NLS has great Console Emulation
Real ADT is AWESOME!!!! The effect that you can get for vocals is sweet!

 

Funny you speak about Pro-L or Elephant as best brickwall limiters, it is what i spend my time writting all over the net
L3, Slate and most others distort like hell and mess transients to me.

And i love API2500 too. My fav Waves plugin, with Maxxbass (nothing can replace it). Amazing on drums, but not only.
SSL channels are nice to go "fast and furious". But can be replaced by more "modern" solution like Izotope Alloy if you don't mind several setting pages

Everything else is not so impressive to me, compared to Softube and such good plugs.

 

We are on the same wavelenght
I can't find anything comparable to Pro-L and Elephant.
I use them both, depending on which one sound better in the particular case.

I forgot the SSL Channel Strip (the black one) in the Waves bundle cause it's a long time I don't use it,
it can get a very nice saturation too if you push hard the output gain (I use after it Sonalksis free-g to turn volume down, to avoid clipping).

 

Did you send me pm?

 

Dont for get the the API stuff L2 Limiter the SSL stuff there are a Lot of Good Plugins in the Waves Bundle but there is also Plugins that are not good

and i always put a CLA 2A on My Vocals and look up the C1 on youtube for Vocals to it dose wonders to pull out the Low end Boxy-nis Frequency with out using a EQ

 

@remix

If you like agressive,snappy compressors on vocals, try Molot (freeware)
https://vladgsound.wordpress.com/plugins/molot/
ppl reported nice results on vocals.

For "lush" vocals (and electric bass), i like softube CL1B.
And for "agressive" vocals (rock, metal...), softube FET pushed hard can do the trick to compress AND saturate at the same time. May be too saturated for rap anyway

And if you like Elephant, like copylefter and me, try Fabfilter Pro-L too. You will be amazed how it can be better (sometimes) than Elephant
Elephant tend to bring up some harmonics (especially low mids) "beefing up" signal, Pro-L is more "neutral". If it means anything

 

SSL E-Channel very light on CPU and has subtle saturation,NLS in Nevo setting

 

I like the Scheps 73 Stereo 'overheads' setting on the drums.
Amplitube for bass (Ampeg)
CLA for vocals (or Nektar), also use the Vocal Rider and DeEsser.
Soundtoys Echoboy on the guitars and keyboard
re-verb on most things

SSL compressor, Tape plugin and Ozone on the master bus.

Basically try everything and experiment

 

cla2a for slower music, cla76 for faster. l2 for catching peaks, NLS channel for adding grit . j37 for analog sounding master

 

I prefer to keep it simple. For drums (I use NI drum lab) I like to stem the drum pieces and bus them to parallel compression tracks. On the Drum bus I put a CLA 2A, on each of the drum tracks I put the CLA 3A (and turn the analog off). I use a send for the drum bus reverb (not waves). This is a bit processor intensive but it sounds better than using a a multiband compressor. I prefer to use the stock EQ from my DAW since I don't do much EQ on drums other than rolling off or slightly enhancing frequencies to make sure each part is set in it's own place instead of clashing. I use almost entirely waves plugins on vocals. Vocal rider is a must. De-esser, and De-breath are so good it makes me cry.

 

No love for Waves Doubler? This thing can sound great on ALOT of stuff!
NLS plugs
Scheps 73
Soundshifter
CLA/API 2500

Used to use the SSL Buss comp alot too until Ableton included The Glue for free.