Over the long stretch of Black Friday deals and releases, plugin heavyweights Waves made a commotion with the release of three new distortions through their website. And now, less than two weeks later, they're available on Reverb.
Take a peek below for details and pricing on each new entry in the company's roster, and then add some snarl to your desktop.
Abbey Road Saturator
Waves has already built a solid plugin collection dedicated to effects and processors from the studio, plus an immersive 3D mixing room experience earlier this year, but the hits keep coming.
Created in tandem with Abbey Road, the Saturator recreates the same signal chains used in the legendary studio with a faithful emulation of their patented EMI TG12321 Compander for tones from a touch of tube warmth to a blown-out console.
As the studio's first solid-state recording console, the EMI TG12345 was an integral part of The Beatles' Abbey Road sound and other classic albums of the era. The EMI TG12321 Compander, which was originally built for a different purpose, was used to add gain at the input stage of the console.
With the new Abbey Road Saturator, users can choose their virtual signal path, utilizing the Compander, the solid-state console preamp, and that of the studio's REDD tube console, which was heard on earlier albums from The Beatles and others in the '60s.
MDMX Distortions
Three for the price of one? Don't mind if we do.
The MDMX pack gets you three pedalboard staples built for a screen with a versatile set of sonic tools tailor-made for your gain-related needs.
Contained in this triple header is Screamer, a midrange overdrive modeled after a certain green favorite; Overdrive, a hefty dirt box packing a four-band EQ, two distinct drive settings, and a dedicated dynamics section; and Fuzz, a two-mode beast modeled after classic high-gain silicon fuzzes with a built-in octave function.
If you're looking to add spice, depth, or aggression to your tracks, this pack of versatile dirt plugins will prove useful.
Berzerk Creative Distortion
Made specifically for sending a jolt to the creative juices, the Berzerk was built with the effect experimentalist in mind.
Similar in design to a Eurorack synth module, this monster of a plugin sports 10 distinct distortion shapes with pitch/speed-controlled feedback oscillation, a full dynamics section, and a Temperature control for dialing in character and presence.
And for the mad sonic scientists, there's also a wildcard "Go Berzerk" button to generate randomized madness.