Waves has announced a new plug-in created in collaboration with Grammy-winning producer/engineer, Andrew Scheps (Adele, Metallica, Jay Z, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Sabbath, Lana Del Rey). Scheps Parallel Particles features a unique user interface based around four intuitive controls that combine to provide attitude, energy, and emotion. According to Scheps, “It is as much an attitude shaper as a tone shaper, so you can focus on how you want your tracks to feel.”
Sub is a harmonic generator that creates lows and adds sub frequencies. By working more with resonance than with EQ, it’s a great way to create presence in the low end.
Air focuses on “air” frequencies and brings them to the forefront. Like Sub, it is a harmonic generator that creates resonances that do not exist in the source material. This control circumvents noise issues by synthesizing top end from existing lower frequency material.
Bite creates sonic vitality and emotion. It controls the attack of notes, but also has impact on the release. It can be used on anything to make your sound more aggressive. A singer will sound more energetic, a snare drum will have more attack, a bass guitar will sound more present, and so on.
Thick adds body to the signal, evening out the lower mids and midrange, creating a feeling similar to that of a microphone being a little bit closer, or the room ambience being darker.
