You could call it the butterfly effect many small things happened that completely changed things for companies likeġ. But there’s a few things beyond even the DSP options that are changing that, which I’ll talk about below. But the WAVES plugins are and still were very good.
But everyone around that time (and many still do,) also thought so. As computers have grown more powerful in time, Native is now faster. May know stands for Digital Signal Processing, and dedicated DSP was still faster than native signal processing, and so, the UAD, being a dedicated DSP card, had an advantage over the WAVES plugins. Perhaps a bit of history on that process is in order.Īround the time when we purchased all of this gear and built the recording studio, DSP processing was just beginning to lose it’s edge over native processing, but it hadn’t quite lost that edge just yet. Now, perhaps this isn’t a fair comparison since we’re reviewing WAVES plugins, which are native, versus a dedicated DSP card. It of course included Waves plugins, but we also splurged and decided to get the Universal Audio UAD card.
We had recently invested in about $100,000 worth of recording equipment based around a Control 24 digital recordingĬonsole, and a Mac based Pro Tools HD rig. Recording facility and I was serving as the resident producer and primary mix and mastering engineer. This new studio was a friend and business partner’s I had the luxury of using the Waves Audio MERCURY Bundle when I began engineering at my first studio other than my own, which I’ve run since I was 15 years old. Options you really had on a mainstream level were either the plugins developed directly by Avid (formerly Digidesign) or Waves. If you were using pro tools (and back in the day, who WASN’T using Pro Tools, unless you were that guy – you know, the weirdo using Cubase – because that’s how many lay people without much experience in DAWs saw such users) the only First, there weren’t a whole lot of competitors in the arena of digital signal processing. It’s a company that has been around for a long, long time, and has rooted itself deep inside not only the minds and thoughts of engineers, but also planted itself firmly in the arenas of important softwareīack in the day, Waves plugins were like the gold standard of audio processing.
As always, you have my word on that.Īnyone who has any experience in a professional recording studio, be it on the tech side or on the client side, has almost undoubtedly seen a slew of waves plugins splashed across the screen of the engineer’s Digital Audio By all means, this will be a FAIR and 100% unbiased review. Today I’d like to review the Waves bundle of plugins, and consider the value it gives the engineer, while considering all variables. Should You Still Be Using Waves Plugins in 2021? Here’s My Honest Take
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