Waves Bass Rider: Bass Dynamics Plugin

Bass is the foundation of most tracks. But mixing bass is a challenge because low frequencies are hard to reproduce and hear. Heavy compression is a workaround but it alters the attack tone and sustain. Automating levels manually can sound better but it’s tedious and imprecise. Bass Rider provides consistent bass levels throughout your track by controlling the bass’s gain automatically to maintain a steady target level. And because there’s no dynamics processing the sound quality remains pristine.

Balanced Bass for Better Mixes

Even slight level variations can cause bass to drop out of a mix. Bass Rider monitors your bass track and raises or lowers its level automatically to keep your bass at a specified target level.

Get the Perfect Bass “Touch”—Automatically

Some bass players lack a pro’s precise steady “touch” that gives consistent levels. Bass Rider compensates by evening out individual note levels. This balances the overall bass sound and helps the bass sit better in a mix.

Keep Bass Dynamics: No Over-compression

Engineers often use compression or limiting to solve a bass’s level issues—but such processing can crush the dynamics. With Bass Rider doing the heavy lifting you can use compression more subtly just for its character—while keeping your bass’s dynamics.

Not Just Bass: Tame All Low-End Elements

Bass Rider is optimized to work with all basses—electric acoustic synth bass upright anything. But it’s also useful for other sounds like kick drum or conditioning guitar to deliver a consistent signal level to amp sims.

Advanced Optimization

Bass Rider can ignore sounds you don’t want leveled like string buzz and squeaks. And when playing live with a mic’ed amp or upright bass set up Bass Rider to suppress spillover and leakage from other instruments.

Features:

• Takes the guesswork out of mixing bass live and in the studio
• Real-time operation adds no latency
• Writes an automation track you can fine-tune if needed
• Preserves the bass’s attack tone sustain and dynamic feel
• Retains the punch that compression often squashes
• Compensates for bass players who lack superb “touch”

Requirements:

Platform	CPU	RAM	Disk	Notes	Additional Requirement	Audio Card	Ports	Internet Required	32 Bit Support	64 Bit Support	Plugins
mac	Intel or Silicon Architecture	8	16		Minimum: 1024x768 Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024 USB displays are not supported as the primary display.			0	0	0
windows	X64 compatible Intel or AMD CPU	8	16		Minimum: 1024x768 Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024			0	0	0