Waves' Silk Vocal plugin was a fantastic Black Friday freebie, but the company was never going to leave it free for long. In fact, the opportunity to get it for nothing is fast running out.
Silk Vocal is a ‘smart’ EQ and dynamics processor that’s designed to take your vocals “from raw to pro” in no time at all, and without the need for any other plugins. It promises to automatically detect resonances across 2,000 analysis bands, and then decide when and where its processing should be applied.
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It’s not a completely automated process, though, as you have control over the amount of processing. The Low, Mid and High knobs are designed to remove boominess, harshness and sibilance respectively, and there are dedicated male/female voice modes. The single Dynamics control, meanwhile, enables you to ramp up the amount of “musical” compression.
Other features include Auto Makeup Gain, a high-pass filter, a Speed control to adjust the envelope of the smart EQ processing, a Precision knob for adjusting the sharpness of the Q in each of the processing bands, a Gate and a Mix knob.
As a further bonus, the free download also includes a license for Silk Vocal Live, a realtime version of the plugin that’s designed for - you guessed it - live use.
Regularly retailing for $79, you can download Silk Vocal for free, but only over the Black Friday weekend. It runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats. Make sure you don’t miss out on the other great Black Friday plugin deals, either.
