User Guide

Waves V-Series
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• You are seeking fat horns or bass without sacrificing midrange detail.
• You want a very quick, easy to use compressor that will help glue together your
track and deliver a nominal output gain regardless of your operating level.
• You are mixing a song where attitude is more important than transparency.
When should you use a different Waves processor?
The plug-ins in the V-Series create a specific vintage feel. For a modern sound, you can
turn off analogue modeling in the V-series plug-ins, or you may prefer to choose another
Waves EQ or dynamics processor.
• If you need to create very precise bell filters, as in hum removal, you will likely
achieve better results with a Waves Q10.
• If your material demands very high precision processing using large word sizes, try
the Waves Renaissance EQ.
• For a versatile dynamics processor with endless possibilities, try the Waves C1.
However, if you are after the trademark vintage sound of the 1960s and ‘70s, nothing
compares to the V-EQ3 and V-EQ4 equalizers and the V-Comp Master Bus Compressor.
2. Description of the Waves V-Series Plug-ins
V-EQ3 Equalizer
The Waves V-EQ3 Equalizer is three-band EQ with a highpass filter. Like the 1073 and
1066 hardware devices after which it was modeled, the V-EQ3 offers selected cutoff points
and ±18 dB gain adjustment with a bell-shaped curve. The highpass filter can range from
off to 360 Hz, with a slope of -18 dB per octave. Output gain can be adjusted up to ±18
dB.
Metering is in dBFS. A Trim feature measures the output peak level and allows you to set