Waves JJP Artist Signature Collection

Jack Joseph Puig’s irst collaboration with
Waves resulted in The Jack Joseph Puig
Analog Legends bundle, which featured
software recreations of some of his own
personal vintage outboard gear. This latest
efort sits alongside Waves’ Tony Maserati and
Eddie Kramer Signature Collection packages
and includes six application-speciic plug-ins
that claim to give you JJP’s signature sound.
They’re based on his outboard signal chains and
are simply called JJP Bass, Drums, Strings &
Keys, Cymbals & Percussion, Vocals and Guitars.
Easy does it
The methodology here is pretty simple: grab
the appropriate plug-in for your material, and
you’ll instantly get tailored processing (dynamics,
EQ and efects) à la JJP. Stuing all of that
processing into one single-panel plug-in means
that parameter control has been reduced. As
standard across all six plug-ins, you get a main
processing section on the left with low and high
EQ and one-knob compression. Some have an
extra knob – a de-esser on the Vocals plug-in, for
example. Processing levels are inluenced by the
input Sensitivity control, with an amber LED that
lights up to indicate a suitable level.
Moving on, and the central fader bank dials in
processes that are speciic to each plug-in, such
as transient enhancement, tailored EQ, further
compression, exciter, delay, doubling and reverb
(see the Wait for the signal box for details of
signal low). Rounding things of are a number of
selectable instrument ‘types’. These inluence
not only knob and fader positions, but in some
cases the nature or even type of options
included. For example, the Drums plug-in has
options for kick in/out, snare top/bottom and
toms, and your selection determines the reverb
style – it’s diferent for snare and toms, and
unavailable for the kick drum.
Complementing the type selector buttons
are a set of presets, accessed from the Waves
toolbar. All plug-ins come in mono-to-stereo
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Jack Joseph Puig puts his name to another Waves plug-in
bundle, but will this lot really give you his signature sound?
System requirements
PC P4/Athlon 64 2.8GHz, Windows
XP/Vista/7 (32-bit), 1GB RAM (XP)/2GB
RAM (Vista/7)
Mac G5 Dual 2GHz/Intel 1.83GHz, OS X
10.4.11, 1GB RAM
SUB
Low-end shaping makes the Bass
plug-in handy for drums too
VERB
A tailored reverb for
snare and toms
PHASE REVERSE
The Drums, Bass and Guitar
plug-ins all offer this
TYPE
Select the type that best
suits your source signal
INPUT
Drive the preamp stage
with the Bass module’s
‘extra’ Input knob
AT TA CK
Emphasise the snare top’s
transient snap
MAIN SECTION
Set basic compression and EQ,
and sometimes further options,
such as gating
FADERS
Set the levels of the effects.
The leftmost fader controls the
dry signal level
PAN
Mono-to-stereo plug-ins feature
a convenient pan control
SENSITIVITY
Set a suitable level for the
EQ/compression section
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Hear audio examples
and have a good old read
of the manual
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