Waves Vocal Rider: Vocal Dynamics Plugin

A true timesaver this plugin adjusts your vocal levels automatically saving you the need to draw each level change in your DAW or manually ride faders. 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.

Keep the Focus on the Voice Fluctuating vocal levels destroy the focus of a song’s most important element. Vocal Rider not only provides consistent vocal levels but eliminates the tedious drawing of automation curves or doing imprecise fader punch-ins. Adapts Vocals to the Music Vocal Rider can level the vocal in isolation or in context with the music’s overall dynamics.