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16 mentions in 15 episodes.

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27:22 · Tune Real-Time · named · high confidence
“shout out to Waves Tune Real-Time... definitely trying to keep it on so that I can hear what it's doing as it's doing it”
Laura Les tracks vocals through Waves Tune Real-Time so she performs into the tuning rather than fixing after.

A. G. Cook

1:45:34 · MetaFlanger · named · medium confidence
“There's a MetaFlanger on it, which I like because the sync mode is reliable every time and you start to have a pitch tone quality.”
MetaFlanger in sync mode turns Charli XCX's chopped 'yeah' into a pitched hi-hat texture.

Bleachers

52:36 · Morphoder · named · high confidence
“That is a plugin called Morphoder. I'll show you what I do with it, which I really like.”
Antonoff vocodes his own lead vocal through Waves Morphoder and prints the results as harmony layers.

Bob Vylan

1:35:10 · CLA compressor · named · medium confidence
“Then I compress with the CLA, Waves plugin”
A Waves CLA compressor sits in the middle of Bobby's go-to vocal chain.

Charli XCX

1:29:07 · Butch Vig Vocals · named · medium confidence
“that's actually Butch Vig with this strange steampunk plugin, which slightly undermines our point”
The crunched backing vocals in the 'rock music' outro were made with the Butch Vig vocal plugin.

Fred

13:06 · SoundShifter · named · medium confidence
“The other thing that's on the master there is a SoundShifter, because I find it's really helpful to just be able to really easily just change the key”
Fred keeps SoundShifter on the master bus of sessions so he can instantly transpose an idea and test how different keys change its emotional feeling.

HAIM

1:37:29 · SoundShifter · named · high confidence
“I'm using SoundShifter, the Waves plugin... it's a little bit crude in how it pitch shifts, but that brings in a resampled sound”
Waves SoundShifter pitches the drums down two semitones on this track; Rostam first used it on Summer Girl at -5 or -6.

IDLES

1:39:33 · CLA Vocals · named · high confidence
“I used to hate the CLA plugin because it does CLA vocals, but no one knows what the hell is going on in there”
Kenny cites Waves CLA Vocals as an example of a black-box plugin he dislikes for not showing what it's doing.

Kae Tempest

1:43:52 · H-Delay · named · high confidence
“On that delay spin track, you've got plate and H-Delay and different reverbs, so you get this feeling of being slightly disorientated.”
H-Delay plus plate reverb build the disorienting vocal delay-spin tracks under the lead vocal.

Lorde

1:07:40 · Renaissance Vox · named · high confidence
“RVox is one of my favourite vocal compressors, because it's just one knob, you just pull down and it's either good or bad”
Waves RVox is Jimmy Stack's default vocal compressor for its single-knob simplicity.

Myles Smith

18:19 · NS1 Noise Suppressor · named · medium confidence
“NS-1, that's a little noise... takes out some of the noise”
A noise suppressor cleans up the acoustic guitar tracks recorded in Airbnbs.
28:09 · Hitsville EQ · named · medium confidence
“on the master bus I have a Hitsville EQ master chain and the God Particle”
Hitsville EQ sits on Fenn's master bus while producing, with a preset called 'mix just sounds better'.

Olly Alexander

1:32:00 · Tune Real-Time · named · medium confidence
“I could just sample a MIDI instrument and do that in Waves Tune or something like that to create that thing”
Waves Tune is cited as a way to fake the pinched guitar harmonic heard in 'Polari' from a synthesised source.

Pomplamoose

28:46 · Smack Attack · named · medium confidence
“that's drums through a bunch of filters. There's some Smack Attack on that”
Transient shaping plugin used on the live drum bus for the track's crunchy hybrid drum sound.

Porter Robinson

1:03:50 · Waves CLA signature plugins · named · medium confidence
“Again, I'm missing my Chris Lord-Alge stuff here. All this stuff is not loading because I just took the old project and opened it on a new computer.”
The recovered project's vocal chain relied on his Chris Lord-Alge (Waves CLA) plugins, which wouldn't load on the new machine.

The Favours

12:30 · Scheps Omni Channel · named · medium confidence
“This is an Aaron Forbes special plugin. This Sheps Omni Channel was thrown on by him.”
Mixer Aaron Forbes added Scheps Omni Channel to the CP-80 chain during mixing.