Complete software
Waves Diamond is a plugin bundle designed to support production from A to Z: recording, editing, mixing, mastering, and even audio restoration. It targets demanding home studios as well as professional studios seeking a very broad palette of reliable tools to sculpt dynamics, balance the spectrum, create space (reverbs, delays), enrich sound (harmonics, saturation), and finalize a track with mastering treatments adapted to current standards.
Diamond gathers a wide variety of essential processors: compressors, EQs, reverbs, delays, and creative effects. This "toolbox" approach allows quick progression through key mix stages, from dynamic control to depth placement, including sound dressing and transition effects.
For finalization, Waves Diamond includes tools dedicated to modern mastering, notably a multiband maximizer (L3 Multiband Level Maximizer) to push levels while maintaining frequency balance control, as well as processors suited for precision needs (including linear phase approaches). The WLM Plus Loudness Meter facilitates meeting loudness targets, useful for broadcast and streaming.
When a take is marred by hiss, noise, or unwanted artifacts, the X series offers solutions focused on noise reduction and repair. This is a concrete advantage for cleaning vocals, live recordings, podcasts, or archives, saving time without multiple processing back-and-forths.
Diamond also includes character plugins to enrich and thicken sources. The NLS (console summing) aims to provide a console summing sensation and cohesion, while production-oriented effects like OneKnob Filter allow quick creation of filter movements and textures, particularly useful in electro, pop, and sound design.