MultiMod Rack

Step up to next-level distortion with the powerhouse multiband modulation rack for Waves’ latest distortion plugins. Create the wildest palette of modulatable distortion FX and achieve multiband distortion with surgical precision.

When you’re mixing music, you want precision; dialing in the right distortion in the right places. And when you’re producing music, you want a tool that will constantly surprise you, complementing your production ideas with musical responses that re-energize the feel of the track.

MultiMod is built for both.

The World’s Most Versatile Distortion & Saturation Suite

MultiMod Rack is a 3-slot plugin rack that can host Waves’ latest distortion and saturation plugins. Each slot can host the analog warmth of Abbey Road Saturator, the futuristic waveshaper sounds of the Berzerk distortion plugin, and the crunchy old-school tones of the MDMX Screamer, Overdrive and Fuzz modules. The unique combination of diverse distortion colors, all working side by side, makes MultiMod the most versatile distortion and saturation suite in existence.

Achieve Surgical Multiband Distortion Control

MultiMod’s three slots divide your signal into three frequency bands—lows, mids, highs—with adjustable crossover controls. Want the insanity of Berzerk on your lows, the crunchy overdrive of MDMX on your mids, and analog Abbey Road saturation on your highs? Easy. Assign the different plugins to different frequency bands, and separately control the flavor of distortion in each.

Simply reshuffling the chosen plugins between frequency bands will significantly change the sound, for serious tonal diversity. Each band also offers controls for level, stereo panning and harmonics, for pinpoint control of the distortion in each frequency area.

Get Creative with Infinitely Modulatable Distortion

Modulation is the door to creativity and makes everything sound more musical. MultiMod’s 5 powerful modulators allow you to modulate nearly every individual parameter of the Abbey Road Saturator, MDMX and Berzerk plugins, for ultimate creative flexibility. Crazy LFO, sequencer and amplitude modulation options will bring you into sound design territory. And if that isn’t enough, there’s also a post-processing EQ section which can be modulated to no end.

We suggest you start creating.

Joe Barresi   Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer

QOTSA, Tool, Soundgarden

 

“From intricate multiband distortion, to fully over-the-top destruction never before realized—there’s so much under the hood and so much potential to unlock with MultiMod Rack.”

Jacquire King   Producer & Mixer

Kings of Leon, James Bay, Tom Waits, Niall Horan

 

“My favorite thing about Waves is the selection of unique plugins that do what no other processing does simply, or at all. MultiMod fits right into that landscape and is incredibly fun to mangle sounds with. Another inspiring innovation from Waves.”

Ken "Pooch" Van Druten   Mixer, FOH Engineer

Linkin Park, Kiss, Justin Bieber, Jay-Z

 

“MultiMod is a harmonic distortion surgical strike weapon. We all know adding harmonic distortion to any input makes it better, but this plug lets you decide which exact parts of your input you want to have distortion on. A great addition to my toolkit.”

Billy Bush   Producer, Studio and Mixing Engineer

Garbage, Jake Bugg, Boxer Rebellion

 

“I’m an ardent lover of all things distorted and analog, as well as a fan of forward-thinking approaches. Multimod Rack is a rare thing that accomplishes both. It’s a beautiful and powerful destructive tool, and it can also add gorgeous analog saturation to the sterile digital world.”

Michael Brauer   Record Mixer

Coldplay, John Mayer, My Morning Jacket

 

“I love the multiband control I get with MultiMod – it’s a great concept and a useful way to dial in sounds surgically.”

Kevin Paul   Mixing Engineer, Producer

David Bowie, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp

 

“MultiMod is a great way to link and control diverse distortion, fuzz and overdrive effects. The modulators allow me to create incredible one-of-a-kind sounds. This tool is cool as f***!”

Ben Watkins   DJ/Producer, Composer, Engineer, Mixer, Re-Mixer

Juno Reactor, The Matrix OST

 

“MultiMod is great for distorting and mangling sequenced bass lines, opening up new possibilities and ideas.”

Adair Daufembach   Producer, Recording, Mixing & Mastering Engineer

Tony MacAlpine, Aquiles Priester, Project46, Rock in Rio

 

“To my ears, saturation often works best on the mids. Having a multiband saturation tool that lets me add saturation only to that fraction of the sound is really important and useful.”

Sterling Winfield   Producer, Engineer, Mixer

Pantera, Hellyeah, Texas Hippie Coalition, Erykah Badu

 

“MultiMod Rack is like an ocean of distortion—very deep and very wide. There is something here for every track in your mix.”

3-slot rack for modulatable multiband distortion
Hosts the Abbey Road Saturator, Berzerk & MDMX distortion plugins
The world’s most versatile distortion & saturation suite: Analog-modeled saturation to futuristic waveshaper distortion, all in one place
Clever, easy-to-use multiband distortion with adjustable crossover points
5 modulators allow you to modulate individual plugin parameters
LFO, sequencer and amplitude modulation options
Independent level, pan and harmonics controls per slot/band
Modulatable 4-band paragraphic EQ
Built-in FX: reverb, delay, chorus
Hundreds of categorized factory presets to get you started
Artist presets by producers/mixers Joe Barresi, Jacquire King, Michael Brauer, Devin Townsend, Juno Reactor & many more