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I've got the Platinum Bundle and honestly, I think they are great plugs. Well worth the money I spent.. breaking it down on the Platinum bundle, it works out to about $47 per processor and considering each processor has from 2 to 8 individual components, including separate mono and stereo plugs, the amount per plugin is actually less than $25 each. I would defintely upgrade to Mercury if I had the money. I think they are some of the best plugins available for whatever type of music you produce.

What are your opinions on Waves plugins? If you had the money, would you buy the Mercury bundle? Do any of you have the Mercury bundle? Was it worth the money spent?

I think Sonnox just blows them away for mastering basics (eq, limit, trans mod, etc) but waves of course has all that other stuff, probably more than anyone could ever use all of......are you really using all 40+ whatever plugs in your mixes??? I've by no means checked 'em all out, but I've used Maxxbass and the de-esser and some of the stereo stuff. It all seemed adequate. But again, the draw for me is mastering utilities and after a long comparison i much preferred sonnox.

-M

haven't had the chance to check out the Sonnox stuff although I've wanted to. seems they don't have deals on Sonnox plugs very often.

Of course I'm not using all 37 processors in every mix but I have used quite a few of them in various ways. Mercury collection is a lot more than I would ever need but I could see myself using the extra plugs I would get with the Diamond collection.

Overall, I think they sound really good and don't hit the CPU as hard as you might think. a typical quad core can handle enough of these for a house track very easily with tons of CPU to spare.

dropping 10 g's on something virtual is nuts to me

i would buy the smaller package and get some hardware compressors with tubes for that price

I currently have the API collection and Musicians 2 bundles. They are great, I plan on upgrading to the Gold bundle once it goes on sale again.

Sonnox rules............just for the beautifull EQ, try it.........for mixing, mastering......very very convincing.......

Waves..........

uh,no thanks,i'm a Sonalksis junkie for life!

There's too many choices in the poll. My head is gonna explode!

hurlingdervish FTW

McQ714 wrote:I've got the Platinum Bundle and honestly, I think they are great plugs. Well worth the money I spent.. breaking it down on the Platinum bundle, it works out to about $47 per processor and considering each processor has from 2 to 8 individual components, including separate mono and stereo plugs, the amount per plugin is actually less than $25 each. I would defintely upgrade to Mercury if I had the money. I think they are some of the best plugins available for whatever type of music you produce.

What are your opinions on Waves plugins? If you had the money, would you buy the Mercury bundle? Do any of you have the Mercury bundle? Was it worth the money spent?

Waves plugs are a bit expensive for me.

My expensive plugs are my UAD stuff which I love. Other than that I have some Izotope stuff (Ozone, Trash, Spectron) and a lot of Voxengo stuff.

Voxengo's stuff probably isn't as good as Waves stuff but they are highly tweakable and are about a tad step up from Live's included plug-ins (Crunchessor is a nice underrated compressor though).

I don't know, but I just try to avoid these expensive plugins. I'm convinced that the general public can tell little difference between a track mastered with Wave plugs and Ableton stock plugins. With maxforlive on its way shortly, I will have more than enough audio processing candy to keep me happy.

I like some Waves, mainly the Api stuff and the Neve replicas. But it's Uad for me.

Waves make good plug-ins and are renowned for being assholes with questionable business practices, so they're not getting my money - ever.
They also do stupid things like analog buttons that add nothing but a little noise, and 50 & 60 hz buttons that make the plug-in slightly brighter when set to 60 hz.
My money goes to UA.

i used waves in hire studios in the past a lot and they are very, very good plugs, haven't used any of the never stuff of waves, though...

but however, if it comes down to personal investment i would go UA all the way... no question!!!

Got the Musician's Bundle on Sale for a couple hundred bucks. RenComp, VoxComp and L3 are used on every track. Stable, Reliable, low CPU hit. No complaints here.

Tod