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Key Features
The Waves Manny Signature Series Native Bundle is a collection of six hybrid plugins developed with four-time Grammy award-winning mixing engineer Manny Marroquin, famed for his work with stars such as Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Jay-Z and Justin Bieber.
Product Ref: 38353
The Waves Manny Signature Series brings Manny Marroquin's unique workflow to your studio. His main goal was to create a set of high quality plugins that were innovative, effective and easy to use.
Alongside his personalised versions of studio favourites like EQ, reverb, delay and distortion, Manny introduces the new Tone Shaper and Triple D plugins which are destined to become mixing essentials also.
Combining inspiration from his impressive collection of unique and boutique hardware, together with the fruits of his imagination, the Manny Marroquin Signature Series gives you direct access to the same tools Manny uses to mix hit after hit after hit.
Waves modelled 18 of the very best reverbs in Manny's room. Six different reverbs with three room sizes for each one. There is also EQ and compression which Manny uses to shape the reverbs so that they sit perfectly within the mix. Plus, Manny has added what he like to call the 'fun' section, with phaser and distortion. This can be used to create unique reverb tails on a really big reverb.
Eliminating a "boxy" sound, harshness or sibilance can be painstaking work. Waves MM Triple D is designed in a way to make it easy to remove unpleasant, sometimes even painful, frequencies. So why is it called 'Triple D', you may ask? Here's why: DeBoxy, to remove 'boxy' sound from the low mid area; DeHarsher, to eliminate harshness in the mids/high mids; and DeEsser for all those high 'sss' and 'shh' sounds. With Triple D it's easy to get your vocals sounding the way they should do.
"One of the things I also love is distortion. Whether or not it's audible, sometimes I just want to feel it." By adding a touch of distortion, this will aid that. Not just on guitars, it can really add attitude and edge to Rhodes, wurlis, even vocals. This is a simple plugin but incredibly effective.
Delay is all about depth and is one of the key elements of every mix that Manny does. Delay can really enhance a groove and create layers which can make a mix much more exciting. There are some nice little extras with this plugin; Some nice reverb, a little bit of distortion, a doubler/harmonizer to fatten things up plus a phaser, when you want to add some movement or really go wild.
The MM Tone Shaper is a parallel compressor with four seperate bands plus EQ and a few other "secret ingredients" which make it quick and easy to change tonality of a track. Parallel compression adds richness and can reallyt bring out the full character of any sound and make elements stand out in a mix. "I've found that when a mix is like 80 there, instead of EQ or volume, adding the Tone Shaper makes things jump out, without sacrificing space in the mix."
The MM EQ is a four-band equalizer plus a high and low pass filter. Waves and Manny captured the very best of his favourite EQs and put them all together into just one plugin. Manny uses different EQs depending on the cutoff frequency, which includes legendary hardware such as the Neve 1073, SSL 9080XL K, Quad 8, Motown, the API 550B and lastly the Avalon 2055.