Waves V-EQ4

[Will.]

Get Waves V-EQ4 Vintage Equalizer Plugin FREE Until February 12

Waves V-EQ4

[Nitrate Audio]

Cool. Thanks. 

[Max Arwood]

Wow haven’t used any of those V plug-ins for over 15 years lol! Mostly the reason was because I didn’t like all the noise in them. That was my bad. The gain structure was probably not set up that well. Maybe I should go look again.

edit - I do remember that I really liked the tone of these.

Edited February 20 by Max Arwood
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[GTsongwriter]

4 hours ago, Max Arwood said:

Wow haven’t used any of those V plug-ins for over 15 years lol! Mostly the reason was because I didn’t like all the noise in them. That was my bad. The gain structure was probably not set up that well. Maybe I should go look again.

edit - I do remember that I really liked the tone of these.

I wish you didn't bump this 😢

It made me realize it's not free anymore.

[bats brew]

i hear no apparent noise using this plug.

[Max Arwood]

3 hours ago, bats brew said:

i hear no apparent noise using this plug

Are you sure? You must have the gain really cranked on the input.   
 

Edited February 21 by Max Arwood

[bats brew]

Thats not the plugin making the noise!

You have to manage your gain staging.

A lot of folks drop the ball on this aspect

[MusicMan]

On 2/20/2025 at 5:55 PM, Max Arwood said:

Wow haven’t used any of those V plug-ins for over 15 years lol! Mostly the reason was because I didn’t like all the noise in them. That was my bad. The gain structure was probably not set up that well. Maybe I should go look again.

edit - I do remember that I really liked the tone of these.

If you engage the "Analog" button they can be a bit noisy, especially when using compression, or more so limiting on the stereo buss. I much prefer a dial, like Plugin Alliance has with a number of theirs instead where you can dial in the amount of noise to suit (from that same plugin itself and not adding other instances/plugins).

Otherwise I tend to just disable noise instead.

[Max Arwood]

I like to be able to have a little, bit of analogue but with a few of these running you can hear it in the tracks. Gain staging works some. I got to go thy these again. The SSL-G EQ and compressor came out about the same time. I just liked them better.  If the v’s had the analogue blend knob instead of a switch I know I would’ve used it more than I did. 

[MusicMan]

38 minutes ago, Max Arwood said:

I like to be able to have a little, bit of analogue but with a few of these running you can hear it in the tracks. Gain staging works some. I got to go thy these again. The SSL-G EQ and compressor came out about the same time. I just liked them better.  If the v’s had the analogue blend knob instead of a switch I know I would’ve used it more than I did. 

The other option that occurred to me, was just use them all with the "Analog" button turned off and then on a separate track with no instruments, just add that EQ and enable analog and then you can simply raise the gain to blend as much as you like. With noise I'll often set the levels with a limiter enabled and getting the rough loudness I want it to end up at and then dial in the noise levels on those sort of plugs if required, so it doesn't build up to too much in the final mix.

[Nitrate Audio]

I like them with the analog button on. add's character to tone.