Waves Audio has released the Greg Wells ToneCentric plug-in, part of its Greg Wells Signature Series.
Created in collaboration with multiple Grammy-nominated producer, musician and mixing engineer Greg Wells (Adele, OneRepublic, Katy Perry, Twenty One Pilots), Greg Wells ToneCentric is a musical harmonic enhancer based on Wells’ preferred pieces of analogue gear. It is designed to add rich analog tone to individual tracks or entire mixes, in the studio or live, with an extremely easy-to-use single-knob interface.
‘I’m constantly on the hunt for ways to pull more music out of the speakers,’ he says. ‘You get a beautiful effect when you run audio through healthy vacuum tubes and big transformers wound the right way, and record it to a great tape machine. This plug-in is an homage to the great analogue gear that leaves a wonderful sonic footprint on your sound.
‘There are certain pieces of gear in my studio that consistently do this for me without fail – a Holy Grail 1950s mono tube compressor, a tape machine and a custom-made vacuum tube console. Several plug-ins do a great job pointing in this direction, but sometimes I find the high-end suffers. In developing ToneCentric, it was important to me to keep things sonically quite full overall, but with an added depth of field.
‘As with all the plug-ins in my Signature Series, there is an enormous amount going on behind the simplicity of the single-knob interface. Different settings on the knob will yield different results, and I encourage you to experiment with subtle to mid to drastic levels. Here’s to more tone-filled music.’
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