

Waves knows that this takes a great deal of diligence, and sometimes even professional engineers end up cutting corners and smothering the dynamic range of their vocals. Then you take the mildly compressed audio and use automation to preserve the dynamic range. You need to use some compression, but how much? The textbook way to address this is to use just enough compression to smooth out the tone, but not so much that you crush the life out of your music. Plugins Like Waves Vocal Rider Intelligent adjustment that preserves the dynamics of you musicĮvery day, even the best engineers struggle to find the perfect balance between enough and too much compression.


Vocal Rider by Waves is a Virtual Effect Audio Plugin. For spoken word, it sounds amazing (like just normal talking, not necessarily rap although I haven't tried it on that). I was expecting to use this on like every track and had been waiting for a sale. I know there are certain vocal lines that it will work well on but it's definitely not for everything. Optimized especially for the frequency range and envelope characteristics of bass instruments, Bass Rider covers all the basses: DI, amplified, acoustic, synth, upright-you name it.

A companion to our popular Vocal Rider plugin, Bass Rider delivers perfect bass levels, without changing the natural sound of your bass.
