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Introduction
You own a great sounding hardware EQ. It sounds great. It feels good. You know
just how to “tweak” the knobs to get the sound that you are looking for. But
perhaps you can’t afford to buy 97 more hardware EQs for every one of the 98
tracks in your current mix! Even if you could, wouldn’t it be like a dream come
true if you could digitally save the various settings of your hardware EQs on all of
the different tracks of your mix?
Now you can. With the Q-Clone you can “clone” your favorite hardware EQ and
use it on an unlimited number of tracks, “tweak” the EQ in real time using the
familiar hardware EQ knobs, create a library of the cloned presets, and then
change them at any given time.
BASIC CONCEPT
The Waves Q-clone is an EQ-device cloning system. It captures the EQ curve of
a single mono analog EQ and uses it to process any given track. This process
can be repeated on several tracks, cloning different EQ-settings from the same
device to each track.
The Q-Clone also comes with a great library of sampled EQ curves from classic,
acclaimed and vintage hardware equalizers. The presets can be used without
having your own hardware EQ to sample.
The Q-Clone can be opened on any given track. After a simple procedure is
followed, the Q-Clone will create the image of the EQ hardware device that is
connected to your DAW.
THE Q-CLONE PRODUCT
The Q-Clone clones the linear part of any system that it is connected to. It will not
replicate distortions, noise, or other non-linear properties. However, it will
perfectly replicate the sound of the filters and their phase responses.
The Q-Capture is a mono-only component so it will capture only mono devices.
However, you can open a stereo Q-Clone component on a stereo track and it will
apply the same EQ settings to both channels. This will be a perfectly matched
stereo clone of the analog device.
The system is comprised of 2 plug-in components: The Q-Clone and the Q-
Capture. This manual will go into more depth on the Q-Clone and the Q-Capture
in “The Plug-ins components” section.
Waves Q-Clone Manual
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