aquaman
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Can you recomend plug-ins other than Waves
#1036546 - 05/03/13 04:20 PM
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I have been mixing in DP with Waves Renaissance Max plug-ins for the past 10 years but
find the updates really expensive and wonder if anyone can recommend a good alternative.
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Tui
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Re: Can you recomend plug-ins other than Waves
[Re: aquaman]
#1036554 - 05/03/13 04:38 PM
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There are many.
These are my current favourites:
For EQ the Softube
Passive-Active Pack and Voxengo HarmoniEQ.
For compression the Slate FG-X.
For
reverb, there is now much choice. I like Valhalla VintageVerb, East-West Spaces, Redline.
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CS70
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Loc: Oslo, Norway
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Re: Can you recomend plug-ins other than Waves
[Re: aquaman]
#1036575 - 05/03/13 06:03 PM
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I understand Waves Renaissance is a bundle - which effects do you actually use? I absolutely love the Variety Of Sounds stuff (the Density compressor and the BootEQ
equalizer in particular). They are free and - to me at least - amazing sounding. For other
uses, tough, it can be difficult - for example, I haven't found yet a proper sub synth to
use on bass lines which is free or cheap. So it depends a bit on what specifically you are
looking for.
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..and the FB page
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Tui
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Re: Can you recomend plug-ins other than Waves
[Re: aquaman]
#1036588 - 05/03/13 07:37 PM
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The Ren bundle was nearly 1000 dollars about 10 years ago. That kind of money would buy
you some amazing plugs today.
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Bob Bickerton
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Re: Can you recomend plug-ins other than Waves
[Re: aquaman]
#1036598 - 05/03/13 09:04 PM
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At the risk of opening up well-healed old wounds, I dropped Waves plugs some years ago,
essentially because of their pricing policies, and moved to UAD. That was the best
technical decision I've ever made. UAD require a heavier investment at the
outset in hardware, but once you buy a plug in, it's yours for life without continuous
upgrade costs (except when you need more processing power of course, or when they release
a completely 'new' version of the plug). I'm a very happy Apollo user - the
perfect solution for my needs. Bob
-------------------- www.bickerton.co.nz
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twotoedsloth
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Re: Can you recomend plug-ins other than Waves
[Re: Bob Bickerton]
#1036605 - 05/03/13 10:23 PM
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I stopped using waves after they introduced their "wup" system.
Moved to
Sonnox for EQ, Comp, Inflator, Transmod, Limiter, supressor, and reverb. They sound
fantastic, are cross platform and go with me where ever I go if I remember to bring my
iLok.
I'm using Audition for noise reduction, as the Sonnox restore bundle is
out of my budget.
Still haven't found a good use for the transmod or supressor
yet, but they were part of the bundle.
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Richie Royale
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Re: Can you recomend plug-ins other than Waves
[Re: aquaman]
#1036653 - 06/03/13 09:13 AM
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Have a look at McDSP, Sonnox, Softube, Slate Digital, Lexicon and Fabfilter.
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http://www.mixcrate.com/richieroyale
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G-Doubleyou
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Re: Can you recomend plug-ins other than Waves
[Re: Bob Bickerton]
#1036761 - 06/03/13 05:15 PM
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Quote Bob Bickerton:
At the risk
of opening up well-healed old wounds, I dropped Waves plugs some years ago, essentially
because of their pricing policies, and moved to UAD. That was the best technical decision
I've ever made.
UAD require a heavier investment at the outset in hardware,
but once you buy a plug in, it's yours for life without continuous upgrade costs (except
when you need more processing power of course, or when they release a completely 'new'
version of the plug).
I'm a very happy Apollo user - the perfect solution for
my needs.
Bob
I
also recently picked up an Apollo Duo, and I agree.
On the native side I was
using the individual plugs from T-Racks, was surprised that their emulations of classic
hardware were very good.
A/B them with the UAD plugs, prefer UAD, T-Racks is
close but sounds slightly different.
Plus most of them have a M/S matrix
integrated.
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G-Dub
Studio G-fx 15inch quad-core i7 Macbook Pro Logic913
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blackmagicdisco
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Re: Can you recomend plug-ins other than Waves
[Re: aquaman]
#1042322 - 09/04/13 02:07 PM
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Lots of good stuff out there - I would checkout Sonnox, Sonalksis, PSP, Softube (they have
also been doing some great stuff with Native Instruments lately)
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Kaw-Liga
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Loc: Norway, Oslo
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Re: Can you recomend plug-ins other than Waves
[Re: aquaman]
#1042570 - 10/04/13 12:51 PM
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I have only one plugin outside of the DAWs, but that one is incredible: Celemony's
Melodyne. I advice you to try demos of any plugin you're interested in using the iLok.
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