Thick addresses the lower mid-range, adding warmth and weight, but seemingly without boxiness, while Bite adds aggression to sounds such as snare drums and electric guitar that occupy the upper mid-range. Air does much as its name suggests, lifting out high-end detail in a smooth but positive way, rather like a polite enhancer. The operating range of the Sub control can be set anywhere from below 32Hz to below 80Hz. Individual sections can be bypassed if not in use.īoth the Sub and Air controls are linked to harmonic generators, where the processing includes the synthesis of resonances not present in the source material. Other than setting the bass filter frequency, adjustment is simply a matter of dialing in the desired amount of enhancement in the four frequency regions by ear. Andrew Scheps says the plug-in was designed to allow the user to directly control attitude, energy and emotion without needing to be an expert audio engineer, and I think that’s as good a description as any. As usual for this type of Waves ‘easy drive’ processor, each control adjusts multiple parameters that the operator doesn’t need to know about - operation is designed to be very intuitive. A link button allows the output to be adjusted in tandem with the input to maintain a constant level when tweaking, if required. Setting the input level is achieved using a fader and a three-colour LED: the aim is to have this showing yellow most of the time. The GUI looks like an aerial view of a Death Star elevator shaft, yet sports relatively few controls. However, there’s more to it than straightforward multiband parallel compression. In essence, Parallel Particles is, as its name suggests, a parallel processor, and it is designed to provide independent control over enhancement in four key areas of the sound spectrum. It was developed in collaboration with top mixing engineer Andrew Scheps, who has worked with artists as diverse as Adele, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica, and is based on some of his personal processing recipes. The new Waves Scheps Parallel Particles plug-in is probably the closest you’ll get to a ‘more of everything’ processor.
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