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Description
Transform your soundscapes with the Waves Renaissance Reverb, a versatile reverb plugin that brings the lush, atmospheric depth of 12 classic reverberation types right to your digital audio workstation. Whether you're looking to add warmth to vocals with a touch of plate reverb, create a sense of space for drums with room ambience, or infuse guitar tracks with iconic spring reverb vibes, this plugin covers it all. Its simple controls and intuitive graphic display allow for quick adjustments, letting you spend more time crafting your sound and less time navigating complex menus.
Designed with both seasoned producers and aspiring musicians in mind, the Renaissance Reverb offers a user-friendly experience without compromising on professional-grade quality. The plugin's de-correlation feature allows for subtle early reflections and fine-tuning, adding an immersive atmosphere to your tracks. With a negative predelay option, you can experiment with unique, ambient-rich effects that delay the dry signal.
Whether you're producing in mono or stereo, the Renaissance Reverb offers efficient performance across all your tracks, supporting up to 24-bit/96kHz resolution to meet the rigorous demands of modern audio production. Elevate your mixes with this studio-standard reverb plugin that seamlessly integrates into any workflow.
Key Features:
- 12 reverb types, covering classic styles
- Easy-to-use interface with graphic display
- De-correlation for subtle early reflections and atmosphere
- Negative predelay for ambient effects
- Supports up to 24-bit/96kHz resolution
- Mono-to-Stereo and Stereo components for flexible performance
Product specs
| Available since | October 2016 |
| Los artikel / bundelartikel | Los artikel |
| Delay | No |
| Dynamics | No |
| Effect Filter | No |
| Encoder/Decoder | No |
| Equalizer | No |
| Guitar amps/-effects | No |
| Channel Strip | No |
| Metering / Analysis / Correction | No |
| Modulation Effects | No |
| Multieffect / Plugin-Host | No |
| Overdrive/Distortion | No |
| Preamp / Saturation | No |
| Psychoacoustic tool / Enhancer / Exciter | No |
| Restauration | No |
| Reverb | Yes |
| Special FX | No |
| Summer / Mixing Consoles | No |
| Tape Simulation | No |
| Pitch Shifter / Harmonizer / Timestretching | No |
| Transient Processing | No |
| Vocoder / Vocal effect | No |
| Mastering Tools | No |
| Hardware Controller | No |
| Download | 1 |
FAQs
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What type of reverb algorithms does the Waves Renaissance Reverb offer?
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The Waves Renaissance Reverb provides 12 distinctive reverb algorithms, offering a wide range of reverb textures suitable for various musical and production needs.
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Is Waves Renaissance Reverb suitable for both vocals and instruments?
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Yes, Waves Renaissance Reverb is versatile and can be effectively used on both vocal tracks and a variety of instruments, enhancing the depth and space in your mixes.
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Does the Waves Renaissance Reverb support any DAWs?
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Waves Renaissance Reverb is compatible with all major DAWs, including Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro, and Pro Tools, ensuring seamless integration into your existing workflow.
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Can I use the Waves Renaissance Reverb for live performances?
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While primarily designed for studio use, Waves Renaissance Reverb can also be used in live settings to add professional-quality reverb to your live mix, provided your setup supports plugin hosting.
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Does Waves Renaissance Reverb require a lot of CPU power?
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Waves Renaissance Reverb is optimized to run efficiently, minimizing CPU load while providing high-quality reverb effects, making it suitable for use in complex projects without significantly impacting system performance.
Videos
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Reverb Mixing Tips: Sculpting with Waves R-Verb
Reviews
Owner Insights
We analyzed real musician discussions from forums and Reddit to find what players love, question, and tweak about Waves Renaissance Reverb.
Comparisons
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Users find Valhalla unable to replicate the nuanced chamber sound of Waves Renaissance Reverb, despite its strong reputation among reverb plugins.
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Use cases and applications
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The chamber setting on Waves Renaissance Reverb is particularly valued and hard to replicate on other platforms, emphasizing its unique sound profile.
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The Waves DeReverb plugin is highlighted as essential by users, outperforming more expensive alternatives like RX10's de-reverb in certain scenarios.
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Value and pricing
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The plugin’s value is questioned when not on sale, highlighting its cost sensitivity compared to other plugins like Valhalla and TAL Reverb.
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Waves plugins often become more affordable through third-party sales, with users suggesting everyplugin.com for significant discounts, making the update plan more palatable.
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Software and compatibility
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Users struggle to find an affordable alternative that matches the specific tonal qualities of Waves Renaissance Reverb even after extensive tweaking.
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Users on Mac may face compatibility issues with Waves plugins after OS updates, whereas Windows users report minimal problems, allowing older plugins to run smoothly.
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Features and functionality
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The Waves Renaissance Collection, including Renaissance Reverb, remains prevalent in major albums, praised for its enduring utility rather than cutting-edge technology.
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4.5 out of 5
Based on 2 Reviews and 9 Ratings
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I use it everywhere and it gives me the flexibility to position my instruments or effects anywhere I want to in 3D field. Intuitive interface and very easy to use. It sounds very natural to my ears.
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little trick with r verb, it has one of the ebst algorithmic early reflections engines to my ear, try setting up an ALL ER send and then 2 separate sends with no ERs and all verb but with different tails on the same algorithm so you can mix and match tracks.... throw up an EMT plate IR (plates have no earlies) on a 4th send for another flavor and maybe set up another send with some tape slap that can feed all 4 axues to create timed pre-delay on all 4 verbs... and EQ the shit out of each send, maybe gate the plate in time with your 8th notes
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Used on Lamar's vocals for "All the Stars" as stated by producer Matt Schaeffer in this May 2018 Sound on Sound interview.
Kendrick Lamar’s vocal audio tracks, named after his teenage stage name K.Dot, consist of his first verse rap track, ‘VS 1 LD’, and 10 tracks for three moments in the track where he sings the pre-hook in a robotic voice. The verse rap track only has the AIR Flanger on it, and is sent to the ‘Dot VS LD’ aux track, which has eight inserts and five sends. Nine of the 10 pre-hook tracks have Auto?Tune, while the top four have a number of plug-ins on the inserts, including the EQ3 seven-band, Waves RVox, UAD Galaxy Tape Echo, SoundToys Little AlterBoy, SoundToys MicroShift and Valhalla Vintage Verb. These four are sent to a ‘Hook Ref’ aux track higher up in the session with another four plug-ins on the inserts and five sends. The other six are backing vocals to the four other pre-hook tracks and have no other plug-ins, other than a Trim, and are sent to a ‘Hook Background’ aux, just below them, which itself also is sent to the ‘Hoof Ref’ track. It’s a pretty complicated vocal signal chain, as Schaeffer admits.
“The ‘Dot VS LD’ aux indeed has a lot of stuff on it! I did most of the processing on that bus. On the inserts there are the SSL E-Channel, Waves RComp, Waves Q10 EQ, Waves DeEsser, UAD LA2A, UAD Pultec EQP1A, SoundToys Decapitator and Pro?Q2. The SSL channel strip, Q10 and RCompressor remain from the tracking, and maybe the DeEsser as well, but I most likely messed with the settings more during mixing. The Q10 has a high-pass at 50Hz and I notched out a frequency that was bothering me around 8.5kHz with the Q2. I added the other plug-ins during mixing, and they all add something a bit different. I’m boosting 100Hz and 16kHz with the EQP1A. As I said, I like using several EQs on one thing.
“The sends go to a ‘FlangeVerb’ track, on which I put the RVerb and the UAD MXR Flanger, then the ‘Huge Verb’ with the [Audio Ease] Altiverb and EQ3, ‘Hook Valhalla’ with the Vintage Verb, and the SoundToys EchoBoy, the ‘EMT250’ aux with the UAD EMT250, Valhalla Plate and MicroShift, and then finally a send to the ‘Dot VS Delay’ track, with the EchoBoy, set to quarter note, the Reel Tape Flanger and the RCompressor. The EchoBoy is the main delay you can hear in the verse. The EMT250 is not set to a reverb, but to a phaser effect, which gives a cool stereo effect. The Valhalla adds a bit of reverb here, though it’s set to -12, so it only gives a tiny bit of ambience, and the MicroShift makes the whole thing a little wider. It probably still sounded a bit dry, which is why I sent the track to the ‘Huge Verb’ aux with the Altiverb, again taking out low end with the EQ3.
Tom Misch can be see using the Waves Renaissance Reverb plugin first at 3:59 minutes into this video.
From Andrew's blog post outlining his plug in staples. "Aside from the occasions when I'll choose to get really fussy with a convolution reverb, this is the plug-in I pull up when I'm looking for realistic-sounding large spaces. Before getting the 224, I had RVerb on a return track in my default project template because I knew I'd always end up putting it on something."
Cazzette can be seen using Waves Renaissance Reverb @ 1:55 of their "In the Studio" Interview with Future Music Magazine.
Waves' TrueVerb and Renaissance Reverb sound a little bit rubbish, by which I mean they're not really highly useable. They don't sound super glossy, they sound a bit older, like a Lexicon or something. Occasionally frequencies bounce out that you wouldn't get in an expensive new reverb, and sometimes I really want that. Renaissance Reverb in particular with a very long decay can sound amazing on a piano, very wooden and real.
"Antonoff’s favourite outboard reverb is the spring in his Roland Chorus Echo. Plug-in-wise, he tends to use the Waves Renaissance Reverb and Valhalla’s Plate, SoundToys’ EchoBoy for delay and, for more extreme effects, SoundToys’ FilterFreak, PanMan and Crystallizer granular delay."
Used for the backing vocals on "SexyBack", as stated by mix engineer Jimmy Douglass in this July 2007 Sound on Sound interview.
Backing vocals: MXR flanger, Digidesign Impact, Sound Toys Filter Freak, Celemony Melodyne, Waves Q10, Metaflanger and Renaissance Reverb, Pultec EQ
"The backing vocals are all Justin. I'd say it's about 12 tracks, three-part harmony. I'm sure I used the MXR flanger on this as well, and also the Impact plug-in, which is supposed to simulate the SSL board compressor. I wanted to really hit it hard, with an attack-y kind of sound that releases really quickly. I also used the Filter Freak plug-in, which is great, and Melodyne, Metaflanger, the Waves Q10 EQ, the Pultec EQP1A and the Rverb [Renaissance Reverb] plug-ins. Rverb is not a great reverb, but I like it, because it's low-grade. The weird backing vox effects are a combination of things, and I have no idea how I did what."
Used on "Apeshit", as stated by producer Stuart White in this September 2018 Sound on Sound interview.
The first four aux tracks feature SoundToys effects, namely Little Microshift, two EchoBoy delays, and a delay from the Little PrimalTap. Next are a Hall Reverb aux and a Church Reverb aux, both using Waves’ RVerb, an EMT plate from Audio Ease’s Altiverb, four aux tracks with the Waves H-Delay and various other plug-ins on them as well, and four more reverb auxes with the Avid Revibe II, two Avid D-Verbs and another RVerb.
White: “I use the Little Microshift in pretty much every mix, with the left-right micro pitch-shift effect that’s similar to the classic effect in the Eventide H3000 shift where you pitch one side down six cents and one side up six cents to create width. It’s a good way to get your vocals wider without them being out of phase. It thickens up vocals, and is kind of like a doubler. I do quite a lot of filtering on some of the EchoBoy delays, for example with the Waves REQ, and I am adding colour with the SoundToys Devil-Loc, which is great if you want to colour the delay so it is separate from the main vocal, and compress it with the UAD LA3A and mix that in to taste.”
(...) Beyoncé’s lead vocal tracks consist of three aux tracks, four ‘dirty’ and eight ‘clean’ audio tracks. The audio tracks only have the EQ3 on the inserts and a few of them have a send to the Church Reverb. All White’s processing is done on the three aux tracks. “All lead vocals are sent to the ‘B Aux’ track and the ‘B Parra Aux’ tracks. On the former I have the McDSP DS 555 de-esser. I use the Waves de-esser the most, but in this particular track, because I wanted to compress her voice really hard, I felt that the 555 would work the best. I am rolling off until 6144Hz into what it is detecting; it’s like a side-chain filter. The FabFilter Pro-DS is doing a little more gentle look-ahead de-essing.
“After that there’s some pretty heavy EQ from the EQ3, with a high-pass at 142Hz, a 9dB cut at 244Hz and a 2dB cut at 3kHz. My cut at 244Hz is because she is singing in this husky, low voice, so there’s not a lot of energy in that. I get the energy from the RComp compression, and the EQs, including from the SSL E-Channel, are there to make her sit in the track, rather than making it sound filtered. I love the RComp, mainly because it doesn’t sound like compression to me. The SSL E-Channel adds a bit more compression, and the [Crane Song] Phoenix II Tape Emulation is really cool because while it doesn’t actually sound like tape, it smoothes out transients in a signal just like much analogue equipment does. It enables me to get a fatter vocal sound that again makes the vocal sit in the mix. The final EQ3 has a notch at 3.2kHz to take out some harshness. I also have sends to the Verb aux track, which are the D-Verb and [Waves] H-Reverb, and the Delay 1-4 aux, with the EchoBoy.
The other aux track, ‘B Parra Aux’, is a parallel compression track, with the RCompressor and the CLA 76, which I mixed in low. Both these aux tracks then go to the ‘LD ALL Aux’, on which I’m doing some more surgery with the McDSP AE400 [dynamic EQ], which allows you to set a threshold, just like on a compressor. It’s like turning a volume knob down on a frequency the moment it gets out of control. Finally, there’s the Waves C4, for some control, to keep the vocal even. This track has a lot of energy, so this is an example of using compression for energy, mood and attitude. I also worked a long time to get the compression on Bey’s breaths to pump on the beat. I wanted her breaths to be another percussive element in the track, and getting the attack and release on the compressor right was key to getting that feel and pumping effect.”
Five of the 22 Beyoncé ad lib, backing and harmony vocals below her lead vocals also go to the above-mentioned aux tracks, while the rest have their own signal chains. These audio tracks are sent to several aux tracks, often with tons of plug-ins, and all aux vocal tracks in the end get sent to the ‘Voc All’ group aux right at the top of the session, which has an RCompressor, with ratio at 10:1. There are more group aux tracks, like ‘TrackAux’, ‘FX Voc Aux’, ‘FX’ and ‘Music Aux’, which all get sent to the ‘All Aux’. This in turn gets sent to the ‘no limiter’ mix print track, and finally there’s a Stereo Master track.
Album Usage
The Waves Renaissance Reverb has been featured on the following albums:
Enemy Brain
Fox Stevenson (2022)
Sum 2 Prove
Lil Baby (2020)
We Love You Tecca
Lil Tecca (2019)
Geography
Tom Misch (2018)
Black Panther The Album Music From And Inspired By
Kendrick Lamar & SZA (2018)
All The Stars (with SZA)
Kendrick Lamar & SZA (2018)
Bodak Yellow (feat. Kodak Black)
Cardi B & Kodak Black (2017)
Perfect Strangers
Jonas Blue & JP Cooper (2016)
Alone
Alan Walker (2016)
Closer
The Chainsmokers & Halsey (2016)
Banzai
Will K (2015)
From Zero To Hero
Repow (2013)
Dancing In My Head
Avicii & Eric Turner (2012)
There Is Love in You (Expanded Edition)
Four Tet (2010)
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