Even though the $29 for so many of them sale is done for now, the current sale (30% off after $50) which doesn't seem so enticing, is actually a better deal if the one you thought about is now $49 and the second one you didn't really want but considered is still $29, since 30% off of $78 is $54.60, better than the two for $29, which is $58. That's the extent of my math prowess.
OTOH, many of the enticing ones are back beyond $49, but some, like H-Reverb and the Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain and AR Chambers are $49 for now, so two of them are $68.60. Not bad. I was demoing the first two during the $29 each sale and really liked the H-Reverb. But the AR TG Mastering Chain wasn't floating my boat enough to deal with the annoying (to me) UI. I don't think everything has to be like airwindows (or ReaEq for that matter) but that much skeuomorphism can be a bummer for track pads or mousing. Maybe I needed to spend more time with it, but I wasn't enjoying the time I spent poking around on it. The Scheps Omni Channel I liked more, thought it did more different better things and it was very quick to dial in what I wanted, and I didn't mind turning its knobs.
One thing that's still strange about Waves is how they still sell all their old plugins. I don't know if the ones I'm scoffing at have been improved since I had them 25 years ago, but the metaflanger, mondomod, Doppler, TrueVerb, etc. I thought were all puzzlingly terrible. The C1 compressor sounded like someone turning the volume knob up and down. We were all excited when Renaissance Reverb came out and three months later weren't using it at all. Have these been made better since then, or are they still peddling the same plugins just updated for newer OS's?
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