Waves BB Tubes

Beautiful to Beastly Tube Saturation

You’ve never heard anything like this. Huge-sounding tube saturation which makes any vocal or instrument jump out of the speakers. From delicate to aggressive analog brilliance, BB Tubes makes your mixes sound expensive and brings your music to life.

You’ve probably heard the sound of tube saturation before. Sure, a little drive from an analog-modeled plugin can go far in making instruments and vocals sound full and cut through the mix.

This does not explain the magic of BB Tubes. 

A Legendary Sonic Personality

BEAUTY is perfect for delicate harmonic saturation, where you just want to make a sound blossom before it breaks up. You’ll hear an instant roundness, fatness and glow with this knob, and an unmistakably huge low-mid.

BEAST gives you that immediate in-your-face energy, attitude and aggression, all the way to crunch distortion. Even when fully broken up, the sound feels tight and controlled, without collapsing into muddiness. There’s also an A/B switch to select between two different tube types.For best results, BLEND the two knobs! BEAUTY cascades into BEAST, so tune and tweak them for an enormous range of saturation sounds for any part, style or genre.

A warning: this plugin is ADDICTIVE.

Once you start using BB Tubes on your drums, vocals, guitars, bass, synths, mix bus and absolutely everything, it’s hard to go back. Incredible tones are simple to dial in without overthinking, and parts will simply feel “finished” in the mix far quicker than before.

BB Tubes will also give you incredibly LOUD mixes. The soft clipping of the tubes brings down transient peak levels, while dramatically increasing perceived loudness. You’ll get a much louder mix before it starts digital clipping.

You also have options for a pre and post hi-shelf EQ, transformer in/out, bass relief – which removes the low frequencies from the side-chain input, a sensitivity control – which lets you choose the point at which you hit the tubes, a dry/wet knob and output gain.

This plugin also includes a license for Lil Tube, which is installed with BB Tubes.

FEATURES

• HUGE-sounding tube saturation
• BEAUTY knob perfect for delicate harmonic saturation
• BEAST knob for extreme & aggressive in-your-face distortion
• Cascade & combine BEAUTY & BEAST knobs for an exceptional range of tones
• Incredible results on any instrument or vocal
• Tube soft clipping creates extremely loud mixes, quickly
• Includes pre and post hi-shelf EQ, bass relief, mix knob, more
• Includes a license for Lil Tube, which is installed with BB Tubes

Compatibility

 MAC OSX    WINDOW

 Windows Requirements

• Host application compatible with:
  
  • AAX Native plugins
  • VST3 plugins

• CPU
  Intel Core i5, i7, i9, Xeon (all Gen 5 and above)
  AMD Quad Core
  AVX Support required
  
  Memory
  Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
  16 GB free disk space on the system drive
  
  Operating System
  Windows 10 64 bit (21H2)
  Windows 11 (21H2)
  
  Screen Resolution
  Minimum: 1024x768
  Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
  

 Mac Requirements

• Host application compatible with:
  
  • AAX Native plugins
  • Audio-Unit plugins
  • VST3 plugins

• CPU
  Intel Core i7 / i9 / Xeon-W / Apple Silicon
  See notes regarding Apple Silicon based processors
  
  Memory
  Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
  16 GB free disk space on the system drive
  
  Operating System
  10.15.7, 11.6.5, 12.4. 13.0
  
  Screen Resolution
  Minimum: 1024x768
  Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
  USB displays are not supported as the primary display.
  
  V14 plugins require a graphics card that supports ‘Metal’