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Waves API 2500

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Waves API 2500

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14 Artists Use This
Deadmau5

In this Twitch video, deadmau5 can be seen using the plugin at 7:38:25
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Thomas Gold

At 0:50 Thomas Gold adds API 2500 to compress the beast
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Timmy Trumpet

Can be seen on his left monitor
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Daddy's Groove

It can be seen at 25:59 on the video.
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Nom De Strip

In this Splice file that Nom De Strip posted, the Waves API-2500 is on the list of plugins he used.
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Riot

"The API 2500.......Mr. Compressor! Pulls the mix together like a grown man! He can be punchy if he needs to be and spank the kick and the snare if they get out of line! He is smooth and sexy with a big bottom bass.With a gentle caress he excites her mids and highs! You can trust him to be on time and ready for work no matter what you throw at him. The officer and the gentleman of compressors!"
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Virtual Riot

At 0:55 in the video, the Waves API 2500 compressor plugin can be seen on the left of Virtual Riot's screen.
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Aurosonic

For Mastering they are using
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Mike Patton

The API 2500 plugin is something I often use to ‘excite’ a droopy vocal in the mid/high register. I actually have the original hardware, but I use the plugin just as much if not more – it has the ‘teeth’ you would expect from anything API. On 1922, I used the API 2500 to remove unwanted ‘girth’ on low-end bass and percussive instruments, for example on my processed celli – and it was literally like giving them a facial!
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Naten

Naten is using "API 2500" in the mixer of FL Studio, in this Facebook post.
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Neonlight

In this video at 20:38 Tobi from Neonlight shows how he uses this plugin for a percussion bus.
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Lenno

Lenno mentions ''I really like the sound of the Waves API-2500 for master and drums, gives them a nice pop.'', in an AMA.
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Project 46

At 2.09 you can see the plug-in load into the mixer.
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Acle Kahney

As for some of the other gear and outboard… UBK Clariphonic parallel EQ and an API 2500 for the master buss.
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6 reviews

valyri

369

Wonderful for sidechaining

I use this for a majority of my sidechain compression, it's very nice and can sound both vintage or modern depending on how it's configured. Only downside is that the release sometimes (though rarely for me) can't go low enough.

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over 3 years ago
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phillipslj

413

Doesn't sound exactly like the real deal, but gets the job done.

The Waves API 2500 plugin doesn't sound a lot like the real deal, but it works, and I think it stands out among Waves best plugins. IT covers a whole range of sounds whether you are producing metal, rock, hip hop, edm, you name it. This plugin can help in any situation. I highly recommend it.

+2

2 months ago
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ro5

1096

Instant big smile after putting it on the drumbus...

I bought the Waves API bundle during a Waves promo after reading the review of SOS (without even properly demoing it). When I put it on the drumbus of the track I was working on, it instantly put a big smile on my face :-D

I still have it on (almost any) drumbus and after all these months it still puts a big smile on my face.

+2

almost 3 years ago
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amelia_crowe

231

Bruh

I've never been so happy with a compressor (with the exception of Ableton's Glue Comp, and DMG's Trackcomp). It sounds good on everything, and adds a level of aggression and punch that some of my tracks can't do without.

+1

over 1 year ago
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ridwan

1589

Absolutely. Love. It.

This can take drums from dull and boring to loud and amazing. Mess around with some of the presets! Pretty sure one of them will take your drums to a whole new level.

+1

over 2 years ago
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dgc_official

215

My go to compressor

Wonderful for compressing drums and bass same with vocals a great all arounder!

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over 1 year ago
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