WAVES MANNY MARROQUIN SIGNATURE SERIES COLLECTION REVIEW
After the unorthodoxy of the Delay and Distortion, EQ at first comes as something of a disappointment, looking like a thoroughly ordinary EQ, despite the hippy print background. The Manny Marroquin Signature Series are: This is a very easy to use distortion plug with both Attack 0. To all intents and purposes, it’s EQ via a different process, and it’s particularly good at delivering bottom-end weight and mid-range punch by compressing those bands and mixing them back in with the dry signal. The Manny Marroquin Reverb is a convolution reverb that models 18 of Manny’s favorite reverbs: The sound is a full-on dirty fizz with no subtlety, and it’s always quite a bright distortion, but that’s clearly the overall vibe with this whole collection.
Each comes with its own Listen button, allowing you to hear each band in isolation and tune into the particular problem frequencies of the mix you’re working with. You can mix the original signal along with various amounts of compression just by moving faders the Low, Lo Mid, Hi Mid and High faders up and down. These are six hybrid plug-in tools that distill a lot of Manny’s mixing style, aesthetic and process that he’s developed over his continuing and storied career. The DeHarsher section processes frequencies between 1. You can go off the grid in MS mode up to 2, milliseconds and set or type in any desired delay time s for each output–after that, the fun starts. Frequencies are selectable and familiar to anyone who has used the associated hardware units.
The other effects are Distortion, Doubler and Phaser. Next, Manny Marroquin’s Distortion plug-in can be used either inline or in parallel. Waves Manny Marroquin Signature Series. The Manny Marroquin EQ plug-in is a brilliant idea and is my second favorite of the bundle! They’re certainly not subtle, and there’s little finesse to be had, but all six plugins inspire invention and deliver immediate, brash and spectacular results. The results are impressive, particularly at the top and bottom ends.
Relative sliders, like the ones here, force you to use your ears to find the tone you do or reveiw want. Engineers commonly fall into ‘frequency habits’, always going to certain frequencies to cut or boost.

The cutoff points and Q shapes have all been lifted from the following units: Six unusual, wildly characterful plugins with a gutsy sound and lots of fun factor, though it’s not for surgical tweakers. Exactly where those frequencies lie is determined by the Freq sliders, and as with all the other plugins in the collection, the range is relative, from – you have to go to the manual to find the actual frequency ranges. At the top of the Delay plugin are the regular controls that you’d expect to find on any modern delay unit: I do wish there was a bypass switch for the EQ and low pass filter sections.
The sound is a full-on dirty fizz with no subtlety, and it’s always quite a bright distortion, but that’s clearly the overall vibe with this whole collection.
Waves Manny Marroquin Signature Series
The high frequency band, by way of example, is modeled on the Avalon, because Manny loves its silky ‘air’. The Manny Marroquin Signature Collection avoids being the jack-of-all-trades that it might appear to be on paper by taking an irreverent attitude to classic processors, with the extended effects chains of Delay, Distortion and Reverb working quite brilliantly.
This plug-in has three sections each with separate bypass buttons and a “listen” button to audition signatjre set the Freq slider to the frequency center of interest.

You can mix the original signal along with various amounts of compression just by moving faders the Low, Lo Mid, Hi Mid and High collsction up and down. Each comes with its own Listen button, allowing you to hear each band in isolation and tune into the particular problem frequencies of the mix you’re working with.
All hail the thug! Triple Dso named for DeBoxy, DeHarsher and DeEsser modules connected in that chain order and all contained in one plug-in–it ranks in my top three Manny plugs. The delay serie sounds OK, but then it doesn’t purport to revidw a vintage tape emulation or anything like that.
It has adjustable Input and Output level controls, Direct and Distortion mix knobs plus a separate Signafure control. Mixing hitman Manny Marroquin spends his life in the studios of LA, sorting out the sounds of the cream of today’s pop stars, and with time at a premium, he likes to be able to dial up his key sounds quickly and easily.
Frequencies are selectable and familiar to anyone who has used the associated hardware units. No music mixer likes to “fix” problems with the recordings they are asked to make stellar sounding and Triple D makes that “trench” work goes faster, more precise and a little less tweaky. This section can act also as a simple compressor when sigature crank the Threshold up.
But what makes it a worthwhile inclusion in the collection is, again, the chain of effects that come after the reverb itself. This is a very musical processor with overlapping sections that works for any source.
Waves Manny Marroquin Signature Collection review
I found Manny’s Reverb plug-in a great tool to experiment easily for an instrument or vocal part that “cries” for some effect treatment. Our Verdict Six unusual, wildly characterful plugins with a gutsy sound and lots of fun factor, though it’s not for surgical tweakers. A trick has been missed by not adding a compressor sidechained from the dry input to give the option of reducing ‘delay confusion’, but otherwise, it’s a joy to play with and comes with plenty of presets to get you started.
I found this feature, when used lightly, blends in and smoothens the delay–especially for lead vocals and backing vocals. I would not mind if DeHarsher’s frequency range overlapped a little more into DeEsser’s range for that reason. This four-band equalizer models and uses combinations of the cutoff frequencies used by equalizers from: But look under the bonnet and the irreverence continues, for essentially, the EQ plugin has been cobbled together from all the best bits of the EQs that Manny uses.
Image 4 of 5 Triple D. DeEsser looks at the problematic sibilant frequencies from 3. First up is my favorite, the Manny Marroquin Delay. The reverb, despite its broad range of types, sounds mediocre at best, and you’ll almost certainly already have better in your arsenal. Attack and Release controls break the distortion in and out gently if you need it.
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Image 1 of 5 The distortion sound is a full-on dirty fizz with no subtlety. These are six hybrid plug-in tools that distill a lot of Manny’s mixing style, aesthetic and process that he’s developed over his continuing and storied career. Signaturs rude, simple and brash but enables interesting, high quality sounds to be made in no time at all.
Interestingly, and maybe inadvertently, this is actually a good thing, as it makes you use your ears more than you might normally. Manny’s Tone Shaper has four parallel compressors split into four separate linear phase EQ bands–the stereo version adds a Width control.
Pros Variety of ‘immediate’ effect chains. The big central Drive knob applies the actual distortion – the higher it goes, the angrier it gets.

Cons Won’t give precise control, No compressor or delay chain. I especially like having all the controls and power for of this effect in front of me and in one plug-in GUI.
There are four bands available, each with five notched centre frequencies and up to 10dB of cut or boost, plus low- and high-pass filters.
You can go off the grid in MS mode up to 2, milliseconds and signaturr or type in any desired delay time s for each output–after that, the fun starts. DeEsser works very effectively for a single frequency band de-esser but some singers have multiple S issues at different specific frequencies.
