Waves Vocal Rider

Vocals are the focus of almost all popular music, so they need a consistent level that’s never buried in the mix. But automating levels manually is tedious, and using heavy compression to even out the vocal levels ends up coloring your vocal sound.

Vocal Rider saves you time by riding gain automatically, while preserving the vocal’s full fidelity. Set a target level for the vocal, and Vocal Rider will take care of the rest. It unobtrusively raises or lowers the vocal’s gain to maintain the target level—just as if you were making fast, precise fader moves.

Body:

• Time-saver: No need for manual drawing of automation curves
• Ideal for vocals & voice in music, podcasts & video narration
• No need for over-compression that suffocates the voice
• Real-time operation adds no latency
• Suitable for both studio and live mixing
• Writes an automation track, so you can fine-tune levels easily