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The visual graphs here really help. Thank you Waves team for getting this on. Great explanation video. Really love your plugins. I haven't updated Waves in a while since I used Slate and other plugin companies but now, I am loving waves again especially after V12. I can definitely hear the difference. Thank you guys for updating your plugins! Not just the GUI, but the sound as well!
For those asking: this is not the same as an expander. An expander raises the volume of a signal above a threshold. R Comp has this feature, and it’s expressed as “negative” compression ratios. MV2 is a low-level compressor, where a signal below a threshold is raised. Automation or possibly parallel compression is more similar than an expander.
Doesn't Trash 2's compressor & gate combo work this way too? The gate has negative values, raising the signal below the threshold, turning the gate into a low compressor right?
I want to thank you… this plug in did exactly what you said it would. It will be my go to compression in shaping vocals. From there I can add the “ frosting “. Thanks again
Please continue explain like that in the video, its really helpful for beginner like me to understand what is actually happening in this tutorial, keep it up🙏
I recently picked up MV2, RVox, SSL EV2 , and SSL G Master Buss compressor from waves. After playing around with them MV2 was my clear favorite and most useful plugin. That upwards compression is just so easy and essential to use.
For me, its simplicity is its beauty. It has saved the day as i have been struggling with some very old (but in demand) cassette recordings.What a job ! This has been a God send really :)
i must say i watched this and was really not sure how well it would work with my mix. it BLEW MY MIND! I added it to my bus and started singing things and holy moly did it not only save my mix but brought it life. This WILL be a go-to for me now.
I just bought the MV2 plugin last night for $29.99. I plan on using it just for upwards compression, followed by my Fabfilter Pro-C2 at a lower ratio. I want them to dance together & make the song smile. 😁
@@MastroTunes Not that it matters, but what i think waves did this on purpose because the plugin screams simplicity, maybe their target market for this plugin is for those who are more amateur beginners and are teaching themselves mixing as opposed to some more experience people like ourselves that look for more optical solutions and delivery styles.
I have a love hate relationship with this plugin, mostly because of the attack/release settings being meh and that i feel everything i put in has a colored sound in a way that doesn’t work for most material. It feels too simple at times, but can be good on some poorly recorded tracks.
For me, its simplicity is its beauty. It has saved the day as i have been struggling with some very old (but in demand) cassette recordings.What a job ! This has been a God send really :)
I've been using it as a bus compressor on the master fader for a while with the Good Leakage setting. Maybe tweaking the settings some after the preset and often not. I like the warm gluing together it does.
@@igorzavalnyi5341 real automation is done manually with the editing tool. I've heard Mutt Lang say he would sometimes spend 8 hours automating a vocal track
@@igorzavalnyi5341 it's not about shortcuts and speed. It's about getting the right mix no matter what it takes. I've found I get much better results when I spend time manually automating the vocals. There are sometimes issues related to vowels which occupy certain frequencies. In that case, a multi band compressor would do the trick by only grabbing those certain midrange frequencies
@@anthonypicone3463 Dang really!? I'm on song 18 of my first album (or what's turning into two albums...) and like, dang! Are you talking about automating the volume? If so, what about Waves Vocal Rider???
@@lockheartbleeding because vocal rider will do a good job at leveling out your vocal which in turn will make the compressor work less when you throw it on there, that’ll give you a more natural sounding vocal over just throwing on a compressor and having it squash the vocal
this might be weird, but what i tend to do is riding the vocals first, using either a volume plug in or a trim control on the audio file, automate the volume on the loudest parts, and the quietests parts raise them a little bit as well, when it is more balanced then i used a compressor either for the short peaks in peak mode or if is just for the tone and coloration in the RMS mode.
Nice. Creo es mejor conservar el dinamismo de la voz y este mv2 lo hace super bien además de conseguir uniformidad en el. Volumen genial. Gracias bro gracias to the team waves
Thank You Dan, I just added the MV2 to my go to Vocal Bus. I've had the plugin for quite a while now but didn't take (or have) the time to try it out until watching today. At first was a bit skeptical with no control over attack n release but the end result after comparison was spot on. p.s. who is Jim? Lol
I have always been using the MV2 in series with other compressors. No wonder it sucked. The MV2 can do it all on its own! Can't wait to try this out. I'd still add the RVox after it however. Thanks for sharing!
What I’ll do a lot of times is section off the peaks and just drag the volume on tha section down and then grab the whole section and raise the overall volume. Then I’ll compress. It sounds like a lot but you can get it done as quick or quicker and messing with the compressor
great tips! A lot of famous producers' favourite trick. Although, I wouldn't recommend compressing vocal so aggressively in the example on 5:45. It sounds too flat for this genre and naturality of the vocal. Also in the second example on 5:26 the vocal started sounding smaller after compression, especially when monitoring on a quiet volume.
@@kensmechanicalaffair Parallel is the King, but in this case Upward compression would bring back all the highest picks and make them stand out. Just moderate serial compression would do the job perfectly.
I already do multiple (soft) compression. Cause I saw it years ago. And... I already use the MV2 In a bus (vocal) since several months. With soft compressions. For more... Body and presence But Thank you, it was really interesting
@@TheTonyTitan yeah tbh I use it for Hip-Hop and R&B, I’ve been mixing and mastering less than a year so if you know about ways to stack compression to get a good sound let me know!
That seems like one very good product ! Can someone please tell the name of the other two songs in this video ? I couldn't find them at all and been searching for a while. The first one is Now You're Blood · The Boot Inn Band I would really appreciate, thank you !
couldn't you theoretically achieve this same effect as having an expander stacked with a compressor? Seems like the "secret sauce" is just an expander, correct me if I'm wrong. The plugin certainly simplifies things though. seems nice!
No. An expander raises the volume of a signal above a threshold. R Comp has this feature, and it’s expressed as “negative” compression ratios. MV2 is a low-level compressor, where a signal below a threshold is raised. Automation or possibly parallel compression is more similar than an expander.
Self-Law, I could be wrong. But I always thought the low level compression on this plugin was adding in some parallel compression to bring the low information up.
Wondering: would one apply a light noise gate ahead of MV2 in the chain to make sure any dead air noise floor doesn't get compressed up? Or just trim out dead air with volume automation? Etc.
You can also use MaxxVolume, which is just like MV2 but has a noise gate - and a little more control over the upward and downward compression parameters.
