SUPPLEMENT YOUR MIXDOWNS
By Graeme Hague
15 April 2014
Waves has come up with a new plug-in that claims to be “comparable to what you would get from a parallel chain of EQ, compression and saturation processors, but without the hassle”. The Vitamin plug-in is a multi-band harmonic enhancer designed primarily as a mastering effect, but of course like any plug-in don’t be scared to insert over anything and see what happens. Vitamin has a lot in common with most multi-band plug-ins such as varying the crossover points and standard controls on adjusting the gain level of each band, however it adds a stereo width parameter for each band when the plug-in is in “stereo” mode. The operative word is “parallel” with Waves making the point that Vitamin requires judicious mixing with the original signal. You also get a Punch control to add… ah, punch – that rather mysterious quality we all know and can never fully explain over just the one beer. Vitamin comes in all flavours Native and Multirack Soundgrid, and is at an introductory price of US$99.00. A demo download is available at www.waves.com
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