Waves accounces the MaxxBCL

MaxxBCL combines the highest quality converters available with unequalled processing algorithms to offer you astonishing new power in bass enhancement, dynamics processing, and format conversion (analog-to-digital, digital-to-analog, and digital re-quantization).

MaxxBass Bass Enhancement

Waves’ patented algorithm adds stunning bass sound without adding bass frequencies, delivering a bigger bottom end. MaxxBass® allows your audience to hear bass frequencies lower than physically present by applying psychoacoustic principles: Even though we can hear a bass guitar from a small speaker, we don’t actually hear the fundamental frequency because the speaker can’t produce a pitch that low. Instead, we hear the harmonics which the speaker can produce, and this causes the brain to create the “missing fundamental.” MaxxBass takes this well-known psychoacoustic phenomenon to the maximum, giving you the ability to extend the perceived frequency response of a system about two octaves below its physical limitation.



To accomplish this, the signal is split: high frequencies are passed to the output (to be added back to the bass). The bass signal is analyzed and a specific series of upper harmonics are created. Because the dynamics of the original bass are duplicated in these harmonics, the result is the most natural sounding bass enhancement available. The MaxxBass® harmonics and the original bass can be mixed in any proportion at the output.
To provide more control, a high-pass filter can be switched in, allowing the harmonics only to be passed along as an “image” of the original bass frequencies, which is useful when working with a system with known low frequency limitations to avoid over excursion of the speaker drivers.



Renaissance Compressor

Designed to provide the classic warm sound of analog compressors, the legendary Renaissance Compressor controls dynamics with studio-style warmth that flatters full mixes, vocals or instruments. Controls include selection of vintage-style Opto or modern Electro compression, threshold, ratio, and attack controls. Waves ARC (Automatic Release Control) algorithm dynamically optimizes the compressor’s release value for a wide-ranging input. ARC reacts much the way a human ear expects, and can produce increased RMS level with greater clarity.



In general, the release is faster for peak transients and slower for the overall RMS level. The ARC system varies the release time to fit the ear’s expectations while increasing RMS, and without creating distracting artifacts. In this way, the Renaissance Compressor can serve as a leveler plus a fast compressor simultaneously.



L2 Ultramaximizer Peak Limiter

Heard on countless hit records and soundtracks, the L2 Ultramaximizer puts sound up-front with breathtaking transparency. The L2 is capable of a very fast, overshoot-free response. Once the limiter threshold has been set, you can define the actual peak level that the processed signal will reach. Once set, limiting and level re-scaling becomes a one-shot process. The L2 can significantly increase the average signal level without introducing any audible side effects. Yet there is plenty of range to recreate ‘vintage’ effects such as level pumping or severely limited dynamic range if you like.



The MaxxBCL offers 96kHz, 24-bit resolution with a 48-bit, double precision internal processing path and a dynamic range of ~125dB. The totally passive analog input path to the ADC uses Jensen transformers, while the output path also features Jensen analog output transformers. The unit is galvanic-isolated, which prevents ground loops and allows it to operate in electrically unstable environments.

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