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Waves Audio C6 User Guide

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C6
MULTIBAND COMPRESSOR
USER GUIDE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................3
WELCOME.................................................................................................................3
1.1
1.2
CONCEPTS AND TERMINOLOGY..................................................................................3
1.3
COMPONENTS ...........................................................................................................4
1.4
CHAPTER 2 – QUICK START GUIDE.............................................................................
5
CHAPTER 3 – INTERFACE AND CONTROLS ...............................................................6
INTERFACE................................................................................................................6
3.1
CONTROLS (C6 COMPONENT)....................................................................................7
3.2
3.3
C6 SIDE-CHAIN COMPONENTS.................................................................................12
3.4 WAVESYSTEM TOOLBAR...........................................................................................13
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Chapter 1 – Introduction

1.1 Welcome

Thank you for choosing Waves! In order to get the most out of your new Waves plugin, please take a moment to read this user guide.
To install software and manage your licenses, you need to have a free Waves account. Sign up at www.waves.com. With a Waves account you can keep track of your products, renew your Waves Update Plan, participate in bonus programs, and keep up to date with important information.
We suggest that you become familiar with the Waves Support pages: www.waves.com/
support. There are technical articles about installation, troubleshooting, specifications,
and more. Plus, you’ll find company contact information and Waves Support news.

1.2 Product Overview

C6 is a six-band compressor with a paragraphic interface. The C6 combines multiband compression, equalization, limiting, expansion, and de-essing capabilities into one simple interface. The C6 is useful when you need to perform separate EQ and dynamic processes to different bands of a signal.
With its advanced multiband dynamics shaping and EQ plus de-essing and de-popping capabilities, the C6 is perfect for live use, particularly on vocals. It also works wonders in the post production environment as a noise reduction tool, in sound design, as well as in the studio, as a creative tool for music production.

1.3 Concepts and Terminology

The C6 has four middle bands connected by crossover regions, plus two additional floating bands that are not part of the multiband crossover matrix. The two floating bands have dedicated frequency and Q controls, unlike the four middle bands. This can be useful in situations when you need additional control over the dynamics of a frequency range that is not being handled sufficiently by the four main bands. For example, you can shape a vocal sound with the four main bands, but have the two floating bands perform de-essing and de-popping on a narrow frequency range between the second and third bands.
The Dynamic Line™ presents a real-time overview of your EQ changes. For example, if you begin by selecting the "Full C6 reset" preset and then move the gain control for any band up or down, the Dynamic Line will reflect the "shape" of the EQ you have applied, similar to the EQ curve display on Waves Q-series equalizers. Next, drag the Range control for a band up (for expansion) or down (for compression), and notice the purple
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shading that appears above or below the orange line. This purple area represents the range of gain expansion or reduction that will be applied to the band once you adjust the Threshold control as desired (depending on your program material). Thus, the Dynamic Line makes it possible to simultaneously observe the overall shape of the EQ that you have applied, as well as the real-time gain changes that are occurring within each band.

1.4 Components

WaveShell technology enables us to
split Waves processors into smaller plug-ins, which we call components. Having a choice of components for a particular processor gives you the flexibility to choose t
he configuration best suited to your material.
C6 has four components:
• C6 Mono
• C6 Stereo
• C6-SideCha
• C6-SideCha
in
Mono
in
Stereo
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Chapter 2 – Quick Start Guide

• Insert C6 on track.
• Try one of the presets as a starting point.
• Adjust the Gains as you would on an EQ. Adjust the range per band or
globally (purple area on t compress or expand as desired.
• Adjust Threshold/Attack/Release per band or globally as you would on a regular compressor.
• Use the two floating bands for pin-point dynamic processing (such as De­essing or D
e-popping), using a narrow Q if desired, use the unique frequency and Q control to reach the area you want. You can narrow the Q value for notch reduction, or even have two floating bands working together; one for de-popping and the other for de-essing.
he graph representing maximum gain change) to
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Chapter 3 – Interface and Controls

3.1 Interface

C6
C6 Side-Chain (See Section 3.3)
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3.2 Controls (C6 Component)

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Global Controls affect all bands relative to their current values.
Master Rel
Release Control optimizes the relea
ease determines the type of compression release. Waves ARC Auto-
se time in order to achieve the most transparent behavior, maximizing RMS level with a minimum of distortion. (In Manual mode, the release time in each band is a fixed value.)
Range: Man
Master Beh
ual / ARC
avior determines the type of compression.
Range: Electro / Opto
• Opto is a classic modeling of opto-coupled compressors wh at high gain beneficial
reduction an
for deeper compression applications
• Electro has slow relea as it approa
ches zero gain reductio
d slow relea
se times as it approaches zero gain r
.
se times at high gain reduction, and progressively faster rele
n, ideal for moderate compression applications
ich has fast
release times
eduction,
maximum RMS level and density is desired.
Master Knee determines the compression knee
characterist
ics.
ase
where
Range: Soft – Hard
Global Thre
shold move
s all band T
hresholds
simultaneously, keeping their relative
values intact.
Global Gai
Global Ran
values intact, ideal for increasing or
n moves all band Gain simultaneously, keeping t
heir relative values intact
ge adjusts all band Range values simultaneously, keeping their relative
decreasing the overall amount of compression or
expansion.
Global Attack adjusts all band Attack values simultaneously, keeping the values intact.
Global Rele
ase adjusts all band Release values simultaneously, keeping their relative
values intact.
.
ir relative
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Displa
y
The following parameters can be adjusted directly on the display graph:
Crossover points
1.
2. Gain and Range
3. Center Frequency points Crossover i
s the point a
t which two band ranges meet. The shape or overlap between these ranges is determined by the Q value. Crossover points for bands 2 through 5, can be adjusted using the markers at the bottom of the gray vertical line indicators or the Value Windows beneath the graph.
Center Fre
Gain
and Range can be controlled from the main Graph or from the parametric control
quency point markers in six colors
represent e
ach band.
section. Dragging any marker ca
n change three values simultaneously: Gain, Range, and
Frequency.
o
Dragging Center Frequency points
a band by changing the
crossover point related t
horizontally will change t
o that band.
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Note that changing
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the center of a band will also change the adjacent band.
Dragging Center Frequency points vertically will change the
o
Gain for that band.
o Dragging Center Frequency points
changes the
Range.
vertically while holding t
he Option/Alt key
The Dynamic Line (orange) is an indicator which displays both the resultant EQ and the gain metering simultane
ously, and changes in relation to other parameter changes.
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The C6’s Range and Threshold contr dynamic gain change using the Range control, and then deter
ols let you first define the maximum amount of
mine the level around
which you want this gain change to take place using the Threshold.
Range
graph. Negative range values result in compression; positive range values result in
controls the maximum gain change, expressed by the purple shaded area on the
expansion.
Range: +18 to -24 dB
controls the output gain of each compressor band, expressed by the lighter edge of
Gain
the purple r
ange.
Range: +18 to -18 dB
Q (bands 2 to 5) controls the slope of the crossov
er filters, ex
pressed by solid curves in the main window. Higher values result in steeper slopes, which give sharper divisions between the bands.
Range: 0.10 to 0.75
Q (bands 1 and 6) contr
ols the slop
e of the crossover filters,
unaffected by global Q.
Range: 0.35 to 60
Attack controls the spee
d at which d
y
namic processing begins.
Range: 0.50 to 500 ms
Release sets the recovery speed of the gain attenuation when the input drops below the threshold, utilizing ARC, as describ
ed above.
Range: 5 to 5000 ms
Threshold controls the
point at which a band be
gins respon
ding to signal level.
Range: 0 to -80 dB
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Output gain fader contr
ols output le
vel.
Range: -18 to +18dB
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pass defeats a band’s dynamics processing
By
and Gain control. If you want to defeat
dynamics processing but maintain control of Gain, set that band’s Range to 0.
Clip LED lights up when levels exceed 0 dBFS. Click inside the meter area to reset.
Solo
is used to listen to an individual band, post-process.

3.3 C6 Side-Chain Components

Each band has a dedicated SideChain section f
or independent side chain control.
SideChain Controls Source is used to choose the SideChain source.
Range: Internal / External
o
Internal (def External: Compression is triggered by an external
o
ault): Normal
compression mode.
key input.
Listen is used to monitor the SideChain signal. In this mode, all dynamics are disabled, and appear “grayed out.”
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o In Internal mode, it auditions the inpu
t signal post-filter, pre-compression.
o In External mode, it auditions the SideChain input after the filter.
SC Mode determines the frequency range of the Side Chain signal.
Range: Wide / Split
o Split (default
): Each band receives the side chain signal at the same frequency
range as defined by the band crossover settings.
o
Wide: Each
band receives the side chain signal across the entire frequency
range.

3.4 WaveSystem Toolbar

Use the bar at the top of the plugin to save and load presets, compare settings, undo and redo steps, and resize the plugin. To learn more, click the icon at the upper-right corner of the window and open the WaveSystem Guide.
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