Waves Dorrough Stereo

Waves Dorrough Stereo - Stereo Level Meters | Industry-Standard Precision Audio Level Meters, Recreating the True Response of Legendary Hardware

Whether you're in a recording studio, broadcast engineering, or post-production for film and television, a monitoring tool that accurately reflects audio levels is crucial. This is not only for detecting peaks and overloads to prevent distortion but also for precisely mastering the average level—a key factor that directly influences the emotional response of listeners and viewers. The Waves Dorrough Stereo plugin perfectly addresses this need. It's not just an ordinary level meter, but a precision audio level meter system based on the industry's gold standard, bringing unparalleled accuracy to your digital audio workstation.

Leveraging its state-of-the-art modeling technology, Waves has successfully digitized the patented Ballistic processing technology developed by Dorrough Electronics over 20 years. The core of this technology lies in its ability to simultaneously display both Peak and Average/RMS information, allowing you to intuitively understand the dynamics and loudness of your audio. From now on, whether you're working on mixing and mastering, monitoring broadcast signals, or in film post-production, you can rely on the world's most accurate software Dorrough Meter to make confident and precise level judgments, ensuring your work delivers the best listening experience and impact on any playback system.

Core Advantages & Use Cases

Precision Modeling of Legendary Hardware
The Waves Dorrough Stereo is not a new creation from scratch; it is a meticulous digital model of the Dorrough hardware meters trusted by top engineers worldwide. This means you get more than just data; you get the reliability and visual feedback proven in countless classic recordings over decades, ensuring your digital workflow seamlessly integrates with the standards of top-tier analog studios.

Patented Ballistic Processing Technology
Its core lies in the unique 'Ballistic' display, which simultaneously shows fast peak transients and slower average loudness on the same scale. This design allows you to see the true dynamics of your audio at a glance, easily judging its energy and potential clipping risk, which is crucial for producing emotionally dynamic music or ensuring dialogue clarity.

Suitable for Diverse Professional Fields
Whether you are a music producer, mastering engineer, broadcast technician, or film sound designer, the Waves Dorrough Stereo is an indispensable tool. In music mixing, it helps you control instrument dynamics; in mastering, it ensures the final product meets loudness standards; in broadcasting, it prevents signal overloads; and in post-production, it precisely calibrates the relative levels of dialogue and sound effects.

Highly Intuitive Visual Feedback
The meter's design is clear and easy to read, offering a choice of three different hardware generation styles and supporting both vertical and horizontal display modes to fit your screen layout. With the Sum & Difference modes, you can deeply analyze stereo field phase and balance issues, quickly identifying and resolving potential stereo imperfections.

Tech Specs

• Plugin Formats: VST, VST3, Audio Units (AU), AAX Native, AudioSuite
• Channel Processing: Mono-to-Stereo, Stereo
• Sample Rate Support: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz, 192 kHz
• Latency: 0 samples (zero latency at all sample rates from 44.1kHz to 192kHz)
• Peak Hold: Settable to 3 seconds or infinite
• Maximum Level Display: +3 dBfs
• Operating System (Mac): macOS Catalina 10.15, Big Sur 11, Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14 (Supports Intel & Apple Silicon)
• Operating System (Windows): Windows 10 64-bit, Windows 11
• Authorization: Online activation via Waves Central application or transfer to a USB flash drive