Waves Curves Equator Smarter Resonance Suppression Plugin (Download)

About: Waves Curves Equator Smarter Resonance Suppression Plugin (Download)

Curves Equator is a smarter resonance suppression plugin. It immediately improves any full mix, vocal, instrument or sample by removing problematic frequencies, fixing resonances and balancing inconsistencies.

Additionally, it can learn your content & safeguard your work with a personalized suppression curve to avoid overprocessing. It offers groundbreaking frequency unmasking by learning the sidechain of a clashing source and dynamically applying the inverse curve on the part you’re mixing.

Equator is the first in our new Curves Spectral Series of plugins, which pioneers the evolution of EQ. Two more Curves plugins will be available in early 2025: Welcome to your first self-driving EQs!

• Immediately fix resonance, mud, harshness, imbalance & tonal inconsistency on ANY source
• Pull the blanket off your mix and hear it open beautifully
• Safeguard to ensure you don't overprocess
• Linear Phase filters, transparent sound, no artifacts
• ‘Learn’ feature provides a personalized suppression curve
• ‘Learn via SC’ offers perfect frequency unmasking & carving
• Rider feature allows attenuation only when audio from the SC comes in
• Dynamic Auto-makeup gain matches the input RMS, no loss of energy
• Shape & tilt adjust the target suppression curve for tonal control
• Additional control with 3 adjustable crossovers and 2x8 nodes

Perfect Balance. Zero Resonance. Your Mix, Unmasked.

• Mastering – All-Purpose: This setting allows the plugin to balance the entire frequency spectrum, gently attenuating high accumulations of resonances.
• Mastering Low-Mid Cleanup: Equator cleans the mud from the mix by focusing on low-mid frequencies.
• Vocal Resonance Suppression: Focusing Equator on the midrange with high sensitivity resolves the unpleasant resonances in the vocal while maintaining the energy & feel of the performance.
• Electric Guitar De-Bite: This setting allows you to salvage an extreme case of an electric guitar with too much midrange bite.
• Drum Bus De-Harsh: By setting greater processing amounts in higher frequency bands, Equator gradually softens the harsh top end of the drums. 
• Drum Bus Brightening: This setting allows Equator to focus on cleaning the low end of the drums, tightening the overall drum sound.
• Double Bass – Drum Leak Removal: In this acute setting, Equator acts as a multiband gate focusing on the drum leak while protecting the bass. 
• Acoustic Guitar via Bass SC: By using the bass as a sidechain, Equator only attenuates the conflicting low-end frequencies from the acoustic guitar. 
• Instrument Bus via Vocal SC: By using vocals as a sidechain, Equator only attenuates the exact frequencies that clash with the instruments.

Fix the Bad Stuff

Most sources have some issues. Just because they’re being masked by your room, your speakers, or other instruments, it doesn’t mean they’re not there.

This is why we made Equator. Simply bring the Equator line down – you’ll hear the blanket lifted off your mix.

Safeguard the Good Stuff

Most other solutions are one-size-fits-all. They process your sound via a generic average curve, often harming the unique sound you created.

By ‘Learning’ your audio, Equator gives you a personalized suppression curve, protecting against anomalies and imbalances and avoiding overprocessing.

• TIP: Use Learn to capture a healthy part of your audio as a template. Equator will then process the rest of the signal to match it.

Everything in its Right Place

‘Learning’ via sidechain can create some truly magical results in your mix, where sources will no longer clash in the same frequencies.

If the vocals are most important, you can ‘SC Learn’ the vocal curve and apply its inverse shape on the instrument bus to carve perfect space for both.

• TIP: When using the Rider feature for dynamic carving, the louder the SC audio, the more carving occurs.

Choose Your Flavor of Balanced

Some problems are objective, and we fix all those. But some are subjective, and not everyone has the same idea of balanced.

That’s why we have the Shape & Tilt controls, which adjust the target for the processing according to your taste.

Same Energy, Better Sound

Resonance suppression using regular or dynamic EQ can quickly kill the vibe by overprocessing the problem areas.

Equator has a unique Dynamic Auto Makeup Gain feature which matches the input RMS by boosting the volume of the frequencies you don’t attenuate. This can be toggled on/off.

Advanced Control

There’s no shortage of additional features under the hood including 4 customizable processing bands, 8 nodes and a host of parameters for tweaking.

System Requirements

• Mac
  • CPU
    • Intel or Silicon Architecture
  • Memory
    • Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
    • 16 GB free disk space on the system drive
  • Operating System
    • macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14, Sequoia 15
  • Screen Resolution
    • Minimum: 1024x768
    • Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
    • USB displays are not supported as the primary display.
• Windows
  • CPU
    • X64 compatible Intel or AMD CPU
  • Memory
    • Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
    • 16 GB free disk space on the system drive
  • Operating System
    • Windows 10 64 bit
    • Windows 11
  • Screen Resolution
    • Minimum: 1024x768
    • Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024