Waves Audiotrack

What Waves AudioTrack Is For

Waves AudioTrack is a channel strip plugin designed to handle the essential processing of a track in your DAW: correcting tone, controlling dynamics, and cleaning the signal. It is suitable for mixing instruments (drums, bass, guitars, keyboards) as well as spoken content, with a particularly effective approach for vocals, podcasts, narration, and voiceover.

Rather than multiplying plugins (EQ, compressor, gate) and wasting time organizing the chain, AudioTrack centralizes the essential settings in a single strip. The result: coherent processing, quick recall, and easy deployment across many tracks right from the start of a project.

Main Features

Flexible and musical 4-band EQ

AudioTrack includes a 4-band parametric equalizer designed for speed while remaining precise. Each band can adopt a bell, high-shelf, or low-shelf curve, and the extreme bands (low and high) allow filter response choices to sculpt the body and air of a signal. This is ideal for removing haze, taming resonance, enhancing attack, or repositioning a track in the spectrum without complicating the mix.

Dynamics: compression, expansion, and transient control

The dynamics module allows you to tame peaks (compression) or, conversely, add impact. The tool also offers expansion options, including upward expansion, which is useful for emphasizing percussive attacks and restoring presence to transients without necessarily increasing the average level. On vocals, it helps stabilize the level and bring the sound closer, while on instruments, it aids in grounding and clarity.

Gate: cleaning and noise reduction

The gate reduces bleed and unwanted noise between phrases or hits, an asset in home recording as well as denser productions. It helps make a track cleaner and more controllable, especially on spoken vocals, guitars, and percussive sources.

Ergonomics, templates, and visual control

The multipoint interface, designed to be touch-friendly, speeds up adjustments. For a more comfortable experience depending on your environment, you can choose between a dark Modern interface and a light Legacy interface. Finally, the plugin offers extended metering providing useful visual feedback on the signal state, and input/output faders to neatly adjust levels before and after processing, to avoid clipping and reliably compare settings.

• Selection of bell, high-shelf, or low-shelf curves for each of the 4 bands
• Compression to control peaks and enhance energy
• Multipoint interface adapted for touch
• Input and output faders for gain staging and clipping prevention
• Suitable for podcasting, narration, and voiceover needs
• Choice of filter responses for low and high bands
• Upward expansion to accentuate percussive peaks
• Choice of Modern (dark) or Legacy (light) interface
• Complete metering for visual feedback on the signal

Technical specifications