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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Waves Audio launches Magma StressBox: the ultimate dynamics tool for shaping musical tension, tone and feel

Knoxville, TN, November 28, 2025 — Waves Audio, the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, is expanding its custom-shop Magma series, with the release of the new Magma StressBox plugin, a transformative and expressive dynamics tool designed to shape musical tension and feel in real time. From intimate to explosive, all with a single knob.

Whether you're battling flat, lifeless tracks or seeking to inject emotional lift into your mix, Waves’ new Magma StressBox offers a powerfully musical solution. Traditional tools like EQ, compression, and saturation often fall short when it comes to translating feel. StressBox redefines that, transforming the way you shape emotion.

Magma StressBox gives you intuitive control over tension and feel in your mix, letting you shape emotion with ease. Turn right for aggressive compression that delivers punch, urgency, and in-your-face energy; turn left for cinematic depth—expansion that enhances transients, shortens reverb tails, and tightens your track for a more controlled feel. Each adjustment unlocks new sonic characters, from soft and spacious to bold and explosive, enabling dynamic movement between song sections. With Magma StressBox’s automation capabilities, you can ride energy and emotion to create lift, contrast, and flow across verses, choruses, and instrumental parts, all in one streamlined tool.

Key features of Waves Magma StressBox:

  • Control the tension and feel of any musical source
  • Injects life and drama into dull sources
  • Endless combinations of sound within a single knob
  • Add punch, urgency and size with compression
  • Craft intimacy and tightness through expansion
  • A deeply musical tool – no technical skills required
  • Includes AutoGain for consistent output level
  • One continuous knob: compression to the right, expansion to the left

For Black Friday only, Waves is offering Magma StressBox free of charge, a limited-time opportunity to add this transformative dynamics tool to your collection at no cost.

The Magma StressBox has been added to the Waves Ultimate plugin subscription which includes the comprehensive Waves plugin catalog (over 240 plugins) and Waves Essential (over 120 plugins) as monthly or annual subscriptions. It is also available for purchase (perpetual license) as a separate plugin, or within Waves’ Mercury, Pro Show, SD7 Pro Show and Live Plus bundles.

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About Waves Audio Ltd.:
Waves is the world’s leading developer of audio DSP solutions for music production, recording, mixing, mastering, sound design, post-production, live sound, broadcast, commercial and consumer electronics audio markets. Since its start in the early ‘90s, Waves has developed a comprehensive line of over 240 audio plugins and numerous hardware devices. For its accomplishments, Waves received a Technical GRAMMY® Award in 2011; an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy® Award for its Waves Clarity Vx Pro plugin in 2023; and a 2024 NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Award for its Clarity Vx DeReverb Pro plugin. Additionally, its early flagship plugin, the Q10 equalizer, was selected as an inductee into the TECnology Hall of Fame.

Increasingly leveraging pioneering techniques in artificial intelligence, neural networks and machine learning, as well as the company’s three decades of accumulated expertise in psychoacoustics, Waves technologies are being used to improve sound quality in a growing number of market sectors. Around the world, Waves’ award-winning plugins are utilized in the creation of hit records, major motion pictures, and top-selling video games. Additionally, Waves now offers hardware-plus-software solutions (including the revolutionary eMotion LV1 Classic live mixing console) for professional audio markets. The company’s WavesLive division is a leader in the live sound sector, spearheading the development of solutions for all live platforms. Products from Waves Commercial Audio enable A/V system integrators and installers to deliver superior sound quality for corporate, commercial, government, educational, entertainment, sports and house-of-worship applications. Under its Maxx brand, Waves offers semiconductor and licensable algorithms for consumer electronics applications, used in laptops, smartphones, smart speakers, gaming headsets, TVs and more from industry leaders such as Dell, Google, Fitbit, Acer, Asus, Hisense and others.

North America Offices:
Waves, Inc., 2800 Merchants Drive, Knoxville, TN 37912;
Tel: 865-909-9200, Fax: 865-909-9245, Email: info@waves.com, 
Web: http://www.waves.com 

Corporate Headquarters Israel:
Waves Ltd., Azrieli Center, The Triangle Tower, 32nd Floor, Tel Aviv 67023, Israel;
Tel: 972-3-608-4000, Fax: 972-3-608-4056, Email: info@waves.com,
Web: http://www.waves.com 

Waves Public Relations:
Clyne Media, Inc., 169-B Belle Forest Circle, Nashville, TN 37221;
Tel: 615-662-1616, Email: robert@clynemedia.com,
Web: http://www.clynemedia.com 

 









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