OT: Waves Gold Bundle good value?

Remco Halderhooter · Post by **Remco Halderhooter** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:41 pm

I have the chance to buy the Waves Gold native bundle for the educational price of just under 400 GBP. I had always thought Waves plugs were the best, but have heard some less than positive things recently. Have they slipped from the top or are they just not that great in terms of value for money? Is 400 GBP a good deal? It appears the full retail is around 800 GBP.

I'm currently on L6 on a MBP.

Thanks for your thoughts.

cheers rh

Krzysztof · Post by **Krzysztof** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:19 am

Hello

Yes indeed, i have used waves Gold now for years and have been very happy with the results and the company. Though some are at odds with the company's price and or policies, i for one am very glad that they bothered to make these plugins. I personally have no interest in coding, and take my hat off to Waves for the work that they have done in this regard.

Regards

Krzysztof

blank · Post by **blank** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:25 am

I think there is a lot of other better alternative than waves on the market that cost less the educationnal waves licence.

and if you go with some other brands you will have good chances to avoid pacelock, trust me, it could be priceless.

just my 2 cents

-B

ava · Post by **ava** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:39 am

I tried them out once, though very high quality I found them over complicated for live use on stage, great for composing though. Guess depense what your doing. Or may be im used to the simplisity of ableton GUI.

muthafunka · Post by **muthafunka** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:41 am

You might want to Google WUP and also check this http://www.bigbluelounge.com/forums/vie ... ight=waves
Sure they're high quality but so are many other plugs these days, know what you're getting into with WUP etc and also some of their other company practices, you might or might not like what you hear.

BinaryB · Post by **BinaryB** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:11 am

muthafunka wrote:You might want to Google WUP and also check this http://www.bigbluelounge.com/forums/vie ... ight=waves
Sure they're high quality but so are many other plugs these days, know what you're getting into with WUP etc and also some of their other company practices, you might or might not like what you hear.

Yeah,
Dont support them. They are being sly and dodgy.
It shows that they are on the way down and you will regret it.

DL their demo software and compare it with other stuff.
You will be suprised !

Then buy some more RAM or a new VST.

Remco Halderhooter · Post by **Remco Halderhooter** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:06 pm

I'd heard about the piracy investigations, but WUP is way too far. I've reformatted loads of times and shouldn't have to pay for reauthorisation if it's a year after I bought the software. Thanks for the warnings!

cheers rh

subbasshead · Post by **subbasshead** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:45 pm

I own Waves Gold & for music I wouldnt buy it again...
I need their Doppler plug for post/sound design work
but EQ/IR verbs/compressors/limiters you can all get from elsewhere
cheaper, better & DEFINITELY with better support!!!
WUP sucks!!!! & their bug fixes etc are slow/non-existent!!!!

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:09 am

Waves plugins are good but the pace/ilok system and their horrendous WUP policy, plus their dirty underhandedness in sending fake customers out to trap warez users (I'm not pro warez but the deception they employed is as bad as the crackers using pirate software).

YOu can find alternatives that sound at least as good and often for less money. You pay for the convenience of a bundle. Waves may have been out on there own at the turn of the decade, but plenty of great alternatives now exist.