![]() Everyone raves about their freaky sound design capabilities, but it takes a LOT of work with those tiny little fiddly knobs to get anything useable out of them. And their business model absolutely sucks, but that's another story But I feel like I've got all the Waves plugins I'll ever need, and it's been a while since I got excited about anything new of theirs (the most recent one was Abbey Road Saturator, which is worth getting excited about). ![]() They might be good, but when I already have like eight Waves compressors, do I really need their latest one, even if it's got some big-ticket engineer's name on it, or comes with some story about how it faithfully recreates the sound of the compressor used on Revolver or whatever?Īnyway that's my 0.02c on Waves: solid plugins, not overrated, in fact the older ones with the terrible 90s-looking GUIs are probably highly underrated. Waves don't seem to want to do that, so they just keep wringing the sponge harder & harder with stock production tools - signature series plugins, modelled-on-legendary-studio-desk- plugins - with what seem to me like diminishing returns in terms of the "Oh shit, I really need to get this" factor. And if you're patient you can pick them up for $29, it's awesomeīut plugin companies have to keep attracting people with shiny new things, and for a lot of those companies, the answer to that problem is to get deep into creative sound design tools. They're "industry standard" for a reason, rock solid reliable and easy to use and they just sound great and they always will. ![]() ![]() F6 EQ, Abbey Road Plates, L2 Maximiser, H-Delay, Renaissance Compressor, TG 12345 channel strip, a bunch of others. I kinda feel like with Waves, their strong suit is standard meat & potatoes plugins, and those are really, really good. ![]()
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