New to the Waves Signature Series, the Greg Wells PianoCentric plug-in is optimised to handle the wide frequency range and dynamics of the acoustic piano.
Created in collaboration with producer, songwriter, musician and mixing engineer Greg Wells – who has songs on more than 85 million units sold, and who is himself an accomplished pianist and piano aficionado – PianoCentric is a user-friendly one-knob plug-in that gives users direct access to the tools, signal flow and piano processing techniques perfected by Wells.
‘The PianoCentric plug-in is something I wish every studio I ever worked in had,’ Wells says. ‘The piano is a hard instrument to record and even harder to make sit in the mix properly. I have been playing piano as a studio musician for 30 years. Any time I heard an engineer do something that got me closer to the piano sound in my head, I paid very close attention. Under the hood of the PianoCentric plug-in is every technique I’ve learned over the years of how to make the piano sound amazing in the studio. I designed this plug-in to reach two different destinations. One destination is gorgeous punchy piano that will cut through any mix with lots of drums and other elements. The second and opposite destination is more like an old bullet microphone in mono, inside the piano – lo-fi and a little crunchy.’
