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Waves Jack Joseph Puig Signature Collection (Native)

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Jack Joseph Puig Signature Plug-in Bundle Featuring 6 Instrument-specific processors - RTAS, AS, VST, AU (Mac/PC)

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At Sweetwater, we're excited to offer the Waves Jack Joseph Puig Signature Collection, a collection of six amazing plug-ins that will revolutionize the way you produce music, track by track. Grammy-winning producer/engineer Jack Joseph Puig has been responsible for many of the best-sounding recordings ever made. If you take a look at the list of top artists Puig has recorded, you'll find more than a few familiar names, including U2, The Rolling Stones, Snow Patrol, Green Day, Mary J. Blige, Black Eyed Peas, Counting Crows, Beck, John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Panic at the Disco!, Lady Gaga, and many more. Puig's most successful technique is to focus chiefly on the sound of the material, not the minutia of the signal processors. It's a concept that he and Waves used to develop the intensely powerful yet simple plug-ins included in the Jack Joseph Puig Signature Collection.

Each of the six processors in the Waves Jack Joseph Puig Signature Collection (JJP Vocals, JJP Guitars, JJP Bass, JJP Drums, JJP Cymbals and Percussion, and JJP Strings and Keys) use remarkably simple interfaces to provide you with awesome tone-shaping power. Instead of row upon row of tweakable knobs, you get a simple compressor, an optimized EQ, and a series of sliders that each perform one or more semi-complex functions. It's all incredibly simple to use, allowing you to remain focused on the music instead of being distracted by the user interface. Let's take a quick look at each of the plug-ins included in the Waves Jack Joseph Puig Signature Collection.

The greatest challenge for most engineers and producers is getting present and expressive vocals that sit consistently in the mix. The Jack Joseph Puig Signature Collection's JJP Vocals plug-in allows you to focus on the feel of the vocals instead of the details of the processors you use. Three mode buttons allow you to toggle between two different male settings and one female setting. In addition to the JJP Vocals' compressor and de-esser (essential dynamics for vocals), there are Magic, Space, Attack, Attitude, and Presence slider controls that make positioning the vocal track in the mix easy.

To help you get amazing-sounding guitars and bass without obsessing over compression and EQ ranges, the Jack Joseph Puig Signature Collection also offers JJP Guitar and JJP Bass. Both of these plug-ins focus primarily on making it easy to position each instrument into its own frequency pocket. If the song calls for a brighter guitar sound and a more defined bass, then you can roll off some of the guitars' warmth and dial in some extra presence in the bass. Alternatively, you can thicken up the guitars or dial in subharmonic for bass where appropriate. Mode switches allow you to adapt either plug-in to the kind of guitar or bass track you're working on. Whether you're working on clean guitar or distorted guitar, electric bass or synth bass, the Jack Joseph Puig Signature Collection has the tools you need to get the sound you want.

Two different plug-ins in the Jack Joseph Puig Signature Collection (JJP Drums and JJP Cymbals & Percussion) give you all of the control you need to dial in smooth and cohesive drum sounds. Thanks to the same powerful yet simple user interface found in the rest of the Jack Joseph Puig Signature Collection, both JJP Drums and JJP Cymbals & Percussion make bringing out specific characteristics in your drums easy. Want a bit more of a woody quality from your snare? Just select the appropriate snare setting in JJP Drums and boost the Wood slider. How about shifting the abrasive tone of your hi-hat? Easy. Select the hi-hat setting in the JJP Cymbals & Percussion and shift the Tone control.

The Waves Jack Joseph Puig Signature Collection's JJP Strings & Keys plug-in allows you to bring out or reduce the complexities in your string and keyboard tracks. Beyond the basic compression and EQ, there are four controls (Space, Doubler, Presence, and Girth) that allow you position strings and keys appropriately in the mix. You can take a relatively flat-sounding string part and turn it into a rich and wet ambience, or you can tighten up a keyboard lead and put it front and center in the mix. Just like the rest of the Waves Jack Joseph Puig Signature Collection's plug-ins, JJP Strings & Keys is designed to give you the options you need to bring out the best in your tracks, without the technical distractions that can take your focus off of the music.

Waves Jack Joseph Puig Signature Collection Plug-in Bundle Features at a Glance:
  • 6 complete all-in-one processing chains include compression, EQ, and optimized control ranges
  • Individual JJP plug-ins cover vocals, guitars, bass, drums, cymbals/percussion, and strings/keys
  • Each plug-in offers mono-to-stereo and stereo components
  • Processing supports 24-bit/96kHz resolution
  • Supports RTAS, Audio Suite, VST, AU formats
  • PC and Mac compatible

The Waves Jack Joseph Puig Signature Collection plug-in bundle lets you keep your focus on the music!

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based on 2 reviews

These are GREAT plugs!

by Mike Galane from Granite Bay, CA
January 6, 2011
Music Background: Recording Engineer
These signature products are incredibly effective to quickly to get to 80% of what is needed. Today I use a combination of Waves Modeling (classics and analog modeled plug-ins) and get excellent resu... read more [+]lts. The ability to drop these into mixes to get quickly off the ground is amazing.

I must admit, I was skeptical until I did the demos. Musicians not familiar with engineering should be all over these. They won't learn much about "how" to get there with EQ/compression but they can surely get somewhere fast.

I have had two clients this week amazed that I was able to turn around a credible mix in under 60 minutes. I thought pulling in my SSL/Neve/API presets along with JJP/CLA models along with other general purpose plug-ins was fast -- this was much faster to create a cohesive, quick mix that can easily be changed to meet the "vib" the client is looking for.

Mike close [-]

Not bad but not all that

by Lance Lindley from Japan
May 23, 2011
Music Background: Songwriter, Home Studio guy
I'm no engineering genius. I'm exactly the target audience for these Signature Collections from Waves. I know just enough about recording and mixing to be dangerous, so I'm always looking for a quic... read more [+]k, simple way to get my tracks sounding professional, as my lack of real knowledge or training often means I spend hours on a single instrument track only to end up sounding worse than the raw signal.

Well, shame on me for thinking there exists a panacea plug-in that would instantly make my individual tracks sparkle and sound like the pros. The ad copy for this JJP suite from Waves almost had me convinced: drag and drop one on your guitar track, one on your bass, one on your kick and another on your snare, a last one on your vocals, and voila, your mix sounds like Green Day.

Sadly, it hasn’t worked out like that. Of course, there are so many variables in how an instrument or voice was recorded that a preset plug-in has only a small percentage chance of making it sound better instead of worse, and these JJP plug-ins are no different than any other in that respect. Waves tried to manage that by including quite a number of drop-down preset options from which to choose, categorized by things like (bass) DI, Amp and Synth, (vocals) Male 1, Male 2, Female, or (guitar) Clean, Amp/Blues, Chug, etc., which should increase the likelihood of your raw track sounding the way the plug-in expects so that it can work its particular magic starting from the right baseline. However, in spite of those categories, I have found the JJP plug-ins to be no more magical or accurate than any other VST effect, including those that came free with my DAW.

So, tweaking is still required, and the next thing Waves tried to do with JJP is simplify the tweaking by including simple faders with promising names like "Warm" and "Edge" and (literally) "Magic." Still, I find tweaking the JJP to be no more simple nor rewarding than tweaking a more traditional faux rack gear interface. In the end, I’m back to running through all the presets looking for one that sounds better than the raw track, and playing randomly with faders when I can’t find a preset that fits the bill. And the truth is, I dislike most of the presets on pretty much all of the different instrument plug-ins. Some in the guitar plug-in, for example, make my track sound so horrible I can’t imagine what kind of raw sound they were designed for. I have found one bass preset and one vocal preset that I now live by – I use them on almost every song. Not so with the kick, snare, overheads, keys, guitars… so I’m not sure it was worth $300 to find a good sounding preset for bass and vocals, and I guess I need to spend more time “under the hood” of the other effects to find a similar setup for my other tracks in order for this to seem like a deal. But the nagging thought that keeps me from rating this higher than three stars is that I could have just as easily tweaked the free plug-ins from my DAW if that’s what it’s down to.

So, to summarize, I think these JJP plug-ins are probably no better or worse than most other VST effects these days that have preset bundles meant to combine effects to sweeten a particular type of track or a master channel; so if you already have a fair collection, you might not need to spend the money on this. If you don’t have many already, you might as well get these. Note: these are 32-bit plug-ins, so to use them with a 64-bit DAW, you will need a bridge (J-bridge worked fine to get it running with Studio One Pro). close [-]

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