Waves Audio

https://www.waves.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/waves-audio/

Waves Audio, privately owned and headquartered in Israel, was founded in 1992. The company employs approximately 550 individuals and reported $92.0M in revenue as of 2024. It specializes in the development of professional audio plugins for music production, mixing, mastering, live sound, and post-production.

2024 Revenue

Founded

1992

Headcount

534

Headquarters

Israel

Primary Segment

Audio production

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

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On September 16, 2026, Waves featured industry mastering engineer Howie Weinberg in its "Mix Trick or Trash" series, where he evaluated 19 common mastering tips. Previously, on September 8, Waves Audio announced a major expansion of its TRACT System Calibration platform, transforming it into a complete toolkit for PA measurement system calibration and SPL monitoring. The expanded TRACT suite integrates three plug-ins—the original TRACT System Calibration, TRACT Measure, and SPL Meter—to provide live sound engineers and system technicians a streamlined workflow from initial system measurement and tuning through ongoing sound pressure level monitoring during events. Earlier in September, on September 3, Waves Audio released version 17 of its eMotion LV1 digital live mixing platform, which introduced a streamlined user interface, new mixer layouts, further tactile control, and various workflow enhancements.

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Waves Audio offers 10 products in the media tech, pro AV and telecoms tech industries. Waves Audio's product portfolio comprises of telecoms network infrastructure, audio production, live audio equipment and broadcast professional services.

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Waves Audio's revenues were less than $250M in 2024. Caretta Research has split Waves Audio's revenue into 5 different product categories, the largest of which is audio signal processing, routing and infrastructure. For full access to Waves Audio's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.

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Sep

23rd

2026

03:59

New Offerings, New Offerings

Waves introduces Tracks Live 2.0 — TPi

Waves Audio has announced Waves Tracks Live 2.0 , the next generation of its acclaimed multitrack recording software created specifically for live sound engineers. Tracks Live 2.0 is compatible with diverse live systems but offers particularly seamless integration with Waves LV1 consoles.

Total Production International

Sep

22nd

2026

17:02

New Offerings, Emerging Tech, New Offerings

Waves Launches Tracks Live 2.0

Knoxville, TN (September 22, 2026)—Waves Audio has updated its Waves Tracks Live software with the introduction of V2.0, bringing with it new features that work with most live system platforms and additionally integrate deeply with the company’s own Waves LV1 consoles.

Mixonline

Sep

19th

2026

12:30

Emerging Tech, Product Updates

Waves TRACT PA Measurement/Calibration/SPL Monitoring Suite

Waves Audio announces a major expansion of its TRACT System Calibration solution, transforming it into a complete toolkit for PA measurement, system calibration and SPL monitoring. The newly expanded TRACT System Calibration suite brings together three plug-ins designed to provide live sound engineers and system technicians with a streamlined workflow from initial system measurement and tuning through ongoing sound pressure level monitoring during a show.

Front of House

Sep

16th

2026

06:30

Can Mastering Fix Bad Mixes? Howie Weinberg Rates 19 Common Mastering Tips

Waves' Mix Trick or Trash heads into the world of mastering with one of the industry’s busiest and most influential mastering engineers, Howie Weinberg (Nirvana, Madonna, Metallica). In this episode, he puts social media’s best mastering advice to the test.

Waves

Sep

9th

2026

06:30

Emerging Tech, Product Updates

Waves Expands TRACT into Complete PA Measurement, System Calibration, and SPL Monitoring Suite

Waves Audio announces a major expansion of its TRACT System Calibration solution, transforming it into a complete toolkit for PA measurement, system calibration, and SPL monitoring. The newly expanded TRACT System Calibration suite brings together three plug-ins designed to provide live sound engineers and system technicians with a streamlined workflow from initial system measurement and tuning through ongoing sound pressure level monitoring during a show.

Lighting&Sound America

Sep

8th

2026

11:26

New Offerings, Emerging Tech, New Offerings

Waves Expands TRACT Into Complete PA Measurement, System Calibration & SPL Monitoring Suite

Waves Audio has announced an expansion of its TRACT System Calibration platform, transforming it into a complete toolkit for PA measurement, system calibration and SPL monitoring that brings together three plugins — the original TRACT System Calibration along with the new TRACT Measure and SPL Meter — designed to provide live sound engineers and system technicians with a streamlined workflow from initial system measurement and tuning through ongoing sound pressure level monitoring during a show.

ProSoundWeb

Sep

6th

2026

06:30

B2B Tag, New Offerings

How to Measure & Correct Your PA with TRACT (No Smaart)

Learn how to measure and correct your live PA system with the TRACT System Calibration plugin suite, including the new TRACT Measure plugin. Waves TRACT is now a complete system-tuning toolkit, with three plugins working together to help you measure, calibrate and monitor your PA. The package now includes the new TRACT Measure and TRACT SPL plugins, alongside the original TRACT System Calibration plugin.

Waves

Sep

3rd

2026

13:08

Product Updates

Waves Launches eMotion LV1 Live Mixer v17

Knoxville, TN (September 3, 2026)—Waves Audio has released the latest update of eMotion LV1 for its digital live mixing platform. Version 17 introduces a streamlined user interface, new mixer layouts, further tactile control and a variety of workflow enhancements.

Mixonline

Sep

3rd

2026

06:30

Emerging Tech, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, Events and Conferences

3 Top Music Mix Engineers Debate AI: Tool, Threat or the Future?

AI has rapidly become one of the biggest conversations in music production, raising new questions about creativity, technology and the future of making records. From generating ideas and sounds to assisting with mixing, mastering and everyday studio tasks, its influence is being felt across the industry.

Waves

Sep

3rd

2026

06:30

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag, Product Updates

Waves Updates eMotion LV1 Live Mixer

Since its introduction, eMotion LV1 has provided engineers with a flexible live mixing platform that can be configured around individual workflows. LV1 v17 builds on that foundation with updates throughout the interface designed to simplify navigation, improve visibility and reduce the number of steps required for live mixing tasks.

Sonic State

Sep

1st

2026

10:57

B2B Tag, Product Updates

Waves Releases Version 17 Of The eMotion LV1 Live Mixer

Waves Audio has announced the release of eMotion LV1 Version 17, among the most significant software updates in the history of its LV1 digital live mixing platform that introduces a refreshed user interface, more flexible mixer layouts, expanded tactile control and numerous workflow enhancements designed to make live mixing faster, easier and more intuitive.

ProSoundWeb

Sep

1st

2026

06:30

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag, Product Updates

eMotion LV1 v17: Watch What’s New

See the new features in the latest version of the Waves LV1 live mixer . V17 is the biggest LV1 workflow update yet, with new ways to customize your LV1 mixer and console experience. Learn more here .

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Waves Audio's customers primarily consist of religious Institutions, media managed services and technology, Information and Internet companies. Examples of Waves Audio's customers include SK Gaming, Prestonwood Baptist Church and Dome Productions. Waves Audio has commercial and technical partners like Lawo, Dell Technologies and Sony Professional Solutions.

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