Waves Abbey Road Collection – Plugin Bundle

OVERVIEW

Precise Models of Abbey Road Studios’ Legendary Analog Gear

12 Plugins Included

Watch It in Action

KEY FEATURES & HIGHLIGHTS

Abbey Road’s Tape. Preamps. Vocal Effects. Reverbs. Consoles. Vinyl Effects. Mastering Gear. The Complete Rare Signal Path – in Your DAW

The Power of Authentic Analog Tape

The J37 tape machine was the centrepiece of Abbey Road’s recording process. Detailed modelling has captured its distinctive warmth and character, as well as different tape formulations, speeds, and bias settings.

The Complete Abbey Road Mastering Chain

The modular TG Mastering Chain has been an integral part of Abbey Road’s mastering suites since the 70s. From Pink Floyd to Nirvana to Ed Sheeran, this has been the secret ingredient that adds coherence and authority to any mix.

Legendary Reverbs: Chambers to Plates

Abbey Road’s plate and chamber reverbs are instantly recognisable for their depth and warmth, as well as for their haunting qualities on classic vocal performances – most famously John Lennon’s vocal on the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life.” You get all these reverb flavours in the Abbey Road Collection.

Ultra-Rare Gear: Saturation, Compression and EQ

Abbey Road were known to develop their own gear throughout the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. These units were crucial in fashioning the Abbey Road sound. The ultra-rare Abbey Road Saturator, RS124 Compressor and RS56 Passive EQ plugins add their distinctive wizardry to the signal chain.

ADT: The Vocal Effect Created for John Lennon

The Abbey Road Collection includes Reel ADT – a precise emulation of the tape-based vocal doubling effect, originally invented to allow John Lennon to double-track his vocals automatically. Create richer, thicker, more textured vocal takes with this faithful modelling of the immediately recognisable effect.

The Vinyl Time Machine

Bring back the sound of yesterday – and today: this precise model of Abbey Road’s vinyl cutting and playback gear gives your music the vintage warmth of vinyl records, played on classic turntables, using classic styluses.

Classic Console Channel Strips

From the tube-powered REDD desks that recorded the Beatles in the 1960s, to the solid-state TG12345 that powered the Beatles’ Abbey Road and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Abbey Road’s consoles have seen it all. Their carefully curated EQ controls and brilliant dynamics processing were key to forging the sound of rock and pop’s greatest classics.

TECHNICAL SPECS

System Requirements

Apple Mac

• CPU: Intel or Silicon Architecture – see notes regarding Apple Silicon-based processors
• Memory:
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 30 GB free disk space on the system drive
• Operating System:
  • macOS Ventura 13
  • macOS Sonoma 14
  • macOS Sequoia 15
  • macOS Tahoe 26
• Screen Resolution: Recommended: 1920×1080 – USB displays are not supported as the primary display

Windows PC

Supported Platforms

*Check the Supported Hosts tab for more info.

**The last version of StudioRack is V14. The last version of Waves plugins supported in StudioRack is V14.

***The last Waves plugin version supported in MultiRack is v10.

****DiGiCo SD (v929 or earlier) with MultiRack (v9.8 or earlier) embedded.

*****When used with SoundGrid Rack for VENUE. For plugins for VENUE V3–3.1.1, see here.

Channel Components

Latency

The table below indicates how much latency is produced by each plugin, in samples.

Not all plugins support all platforms (MultiRack, StudioRack, eMotion, Venue). Check the Supported Platforms table above for more info.