The pricing scheme is a little awkward as single plugins are priced so high, that it forces you to spend a little more for the bundle instead. The plugins do exactly what they should do.
#Waves vs uad plugins series
The GUIs aren't gimmicky, with the exception of a few of the aforementioned producer series plugs.
#Waves vs uad plugins upgrade
I've wanted badly to upgrade to the Diamond bundle during it's monthly special but haven't had the money to do it. Originally, I bought the Gold bundle and found that the plugins were so good, I'd be stupid not to upgrade using the monthly special discount at the time. I've got Waves Platinum bundle and use them on every project I've started. They also do some great promotions (such as 70% off the Dynamics Package CQ-1 multiband and DQ-1 dynamic equalizer right now, but I also waited and got the Essential bundle and Multilimit for huge savings and then 50% off that with educational discount). I also love Sonalksis plugins and recommend you look at them, especially the Essential mkII bundle. I think though that if you hear stuff like the brand new EMT250 reverb and Empirical Labs Fatso plugin in UAD-2 that even the most ardent Waves fan would like them.
Waves (apart from recent emulations of SSL and API and some of the bespoke range such as CLA which models stuff like the 1176 in his studio) don't specifically model respected vintage analog gear like UAD does. I don't like the 元 plugin much and the L2 has been abused by a lot of people but that's not the plugin's fault.Īlthough I do believe that there are many native plugins on an individual level which better equivalents in Waves and I do believe that UAD-2 plugins are really great. I'm not a big fan of i-lok either if I'm honest. Although I also think that most of their plugins aren't worth $200 a punt to buy individually, so you NEED to buy a bundle to make them cost effective. Mercury costs a ton but it does have a heck of a lot of plugins. And I think some of the bundles such as the Silver bundle offer quite a lot for the money. I don't like the WUP policy but many of the plugins are fine. And from there all else folllows ( i believe). What is important is getting the correct tools for the job and helping our musiciality reach it peak during production time. Uad look a lot cheaper than waves but for us that is not important. Yes the ilok i a issue with us as well as we were hoping to share our copy between us (there are two of us). I'd take waves over any other plugin maker. but that's peanuts compared to what you get.ģdot. This is a serious company that did their homework. I'm missing C4/Q10/metaFlanger/C1/the Renaissance series. (only once in the beginning.had problems with the ilok) but you need to pay for it.īut.I've never needed to contact support in the 2 years I've used the bundle. If I had the $$ I would definitely get the Mercury.Īs for support. but I have no reason to believe that they're not as awsome as the others. (I A/B'd it with all the other amp plugs on the market)Ībout their new stuff (I sold the bundle 4 years ago.) I did not even glimpse at other stuff.(only special FSU plugs) Cytomic - The Glue is a good investment for 99 bucks and is within a whisker of the UAD 4k buss compressor in terms of authenticity but more flexible as it has more controls and a wet/dry feature very useful for parallel/NY compression. 元 is vastly overrated IMHO, I think L1 is still the best sounding limiter they have and that Voxengo's $89 Elephant limiter is vastly superior to all of them. The Waves API collection is pretty good, but I'm not as keen on bespoke producer's gear such as JJP, CLA and Maserati. Maxxbass and Renn Comp are older but 2 of my more favourite Waves tools I've used in the past.
It's fewer plugins, but it's ALL quality. For the price of mercury you can get a UAD-2 quad, Empirical Labs Fatso, EMT 140 and 250 reverbs, Neve 88RS or SSL 4k, Dimension D, Cooper Time Cube, Neve 33609 buss compressor, LA-2A/LA-3A, Precision Limiter, etc. I personally think UAD plugins are a better investment and sound if you have money to spend, although some of Waves plugins are pretty decent.
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