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by tw1nstates » Wed Oct 13, 2010 2:13 pm
And have you done a double blind test?
Honestly, if you are making acoustic music, hmmm, perhaps.
But, it's not going to make your music that much better if you have stuff like I mentioned - Soundtoys URS / Sonalksis / Wavearts and others.
They are good plugs but they are not IMO worth the investment in the hardware over the other options out there.
The hardware is becoming obsolete, that's the nature of computer peripherals. I have 2 tc powercores that are almost worthless as well as the virus plugin x4...
And, computers are getting faster - Nebula is likely to be the way forward but they dont have the best operating software or ocmpany from what i can gether.
i think the whole gear lust thing is irrelevant after a while - yeah the UAD has got some nice tools, but at the end of the day all any of it is is harmonic distortion, time domain stuff and envelope shaping.
You'd be as well off learning more about actual production techniques and why bits of gear sound the way they do rather than spending thousands on a hardware system that's not going to last as long as your software licences.
I have invested a lot in the UAD and I now wish i'd just bought more hardware... YRMV but gearlust is a gripping and all consuming thing, just thought i'd add my bit.
Also, am sure the poster here is genuine but there sure are a lot of UAD shills on their non official forum talking up every release and actually, given time to cool off people realise a lot of them aren't that great / different / the panacea to all the worlds ills....
Funnily enough if you had bought waves platinum or whatever 10 or so years ago you could probably still sell that for a bit of cash (I don't know whether you can with waves specifically but you get my drift)
Software depreciates quickly, you are better to think of it as a rental product than a real purchase, the hardware dependant stuff even more so--- plus, their plugs use more and more dsp so you need more cards etc...
However, as a balance - I do use my UAD's and they make good sounding stuff. But I reckon i could still make good music without them....