waves powerpack worth to buy?

klankeffect · Post by **klankeffect** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:11 pm

hi, i can buy a waves powerpack for a nice price, should i go for it or should i save for like a uad laptop solo to plug in in my macbook pro?
ore any other sugestions?
the reason i mayby want to buy is that i used to have this imager en the maximiser wich gives quite nice results.....
grtz

Daemonix · Post by **Daemonix** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:44 pm

if you check individual plugs from other sources you will get better sound results! Softube, Slate digital, Sonnox. But some 'selected' waves plugs are good also.

not sure what powerpack has. whats the price u getting?

EDIT: just saw it. 550$ new and apart from L1, C1 the other are not up to date in perms of quality (IMHO)

someonelikeyou · Post by **someonelikeyou** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:48 pm

Waves Plugins are very, very very good. I don't know if you could get similar plugins from other quality company's for that price. The UAD stuff is also excellent but only if you use UAD plugins of course and there not cheep!!! IMO Waves is the way to go. Someonelikeyou.

Stomper · Post by **Stomper** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:50 pm

I heard that waves ask for a fee every year or something like that (dont know if its true).
but imo (and its only an opinion) waves got their name from having good TDM plugins and unless you have Pro Tools HD to run these, waves plugins are waste of money.

I have an old UAD-1 card and you can find one very cheap these days. its not just a dongle, but more power and i can say it saved me from the need to bounce many times and more important, they sound awsome much better than any native waves plugin.

Daemonix · Post by **Daemonix** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:07 pm

stomper is right. google waves WUP for the fee.

edit: also check some plugins here http://www.gearslutz.com/board/gear-sho ... dio-tests/

someonelikeyou · Post by **someonelikeyou** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:04 am

Just had a look at UAD's site. Had'nt seen the new price of the Solo. So app-on reflection I reckon It's got to be UAD. Thinking of it my self as I use the Waves CLA 76 compressor and Puigtec all the time. Someonelikeyou.

klankeffect · Post by **klankeffect** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:55 pm

i can have this one for 250 euro, i didn't knew about this fee, thx on this one
i think i am going to check those Softube, Slate digital and sonnox (i can remember soundonsound gave them a good comments aswell),

grtz

Daemonix · Post by **Daemonix** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 1:02 pm

klankeffect wrote:i can have this one for 250 euro, i didn't knew about this fee, thx on this one
i think i am going to check those Softube, Slate digital and sonnox (i can remember soundonsound gave them a good comments aswell),

grtz

in terms of $$ you will have to spend 250E per plugin from softube etc. so it might be a good deal in the end. So for a 'nice' compressor and a limiter its a good deal (c1, l1).