Boost Loudness Using Waves OneKnob Louder Plugin

Hey what’s going on music makers? Want to learn how to quickly boost your loudness levels using Waves plugins?

Well I’ve got you covered on that and more! I’ve started up a new YouTube series called “Wavy Wednesdays”.

Each Wednesday, I will be dropping a new video covering a new Waves plugin and will be showing you guys how you can use it in your music creation and/or mixing processes.

In this episode of Wavy Wednesday’s we’ll be looking at the OneKnob series Louder plug-in. As the name suggests the OneKnob Louder plug-in is a dynamic processor which raises the overall RMS level of your input signal with a simple turn of a knob.

Boost Loudness with the turn of a knob using Waves OneKnob Louder Plugin

Although this may look like a simple, basic plug-in, there’s actually a lot of complex processing going on underneath the hood. The one knob louder plug-in uses a combination of peak limiting, low level compression, and makeup gain to raise the overall level of your sound and make it pop.

This is a great plug-in for beginners to use and it’s also a great plug-in for experience engineers to use when they want to just quickly tweak their sound without having to pull up two or three different plug-ins to accomplish the same task.

You can use this plug-in on individual channels like your kick drum or a percussion loop, or you could also throw it on your drum bus or your vocal bus. You could even use it on your master channel to raise the overall loudness of your entire mix.

If you’d like to see the OneKnob Louder plugin being used in action, check out the Wavy Wednesday’s Episode 3 video below:

Overview of the plugin:

This plugin only has one knob to control the effect. Simply turn it clockwise (to taste) to increase the loudness of your sound.

You can use it on an a Kick Drum track to get the louder, hitting harder/punchier, and have it stand out more in the mix.

You can use it on your entire Drum Bus to glue the drum elements together a little bit, and raise the overall loudness of the entire drum bus. When I threw it on my drum bus I started to notice my hand percussion standing out more in my mix.

Lastly, you can use this as a mastering mastering plug-in to raise the overall level of the entire mix.

If you guys are interested in trying out the OneKnob Louder plugin i’ll leave a couple links for you:

This one goes directly to the one knob louder plugin: https://waves.alzt.net/bMJxB

This one goes  directly to the OneKnob Series Bundle which contains a bunch of other plugins that are only controlled by one knob: https://waves.alzt.net/OM0gA

As always, I hope you guys are enjoying these Waves Plugin Reviews/Tutorials and feel free to drop a comment on any other plugins you guys would like me to review in the future.

Until next time… keep learning, keep creating, and keep grinding!