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anonymous 16 March 2005

I am going to buy a digi 002r and cannot decide if I should get the factory bundle, or if I should skip that and get the Waves Musician's Bundle II. I have asked this on the DUC forum as well, but haven't heard much, just looking for more input. Thanks

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anonymous Mon, 03/21/2005 - 14:24

WAVES
If you can afford it I would specifically recommend the Waves Gold Bundle - it has the best range of useable plug ins VS Price within the wave package range (in my opinion). Only problem with Waves is that they are absolute CPU pigs - make sure you have a tweaked out computer rig.

UAD-1
I have the UAD-1 studio pak and I am luke warm thus far. First off it's a bit of a PITA to install. If you are using Protools you will have to use a delay compnesation insert on many of your tracks. Real Verb Pro is pretty good and flexible. The UAD does a good job in replicating some vintage compressors like the; LA2a, 1176, Fairchild. The main strength with the UAD-1 is that you can save yourself some valuable CPU as everything is run off of the UAD card. Waves is still the best place to start

ALTERNATIVES
I also really like the Wavearts.com (not to be confused with waves) plug in's - the Power Couple is a great bundle and super easy to use. I still use the 'Track plug' plug' all the time. I also really like their Multi-Dynamics plug in which I pruchased seperately. Waveart plug-ins are also CPU friendly.

My favorite plug in compressor is from the Focusrite D2/D3 bundle, the EQ is pretty nice as well. This is something you may want to consider later on as it is only EQ and Compression and you will probable want more options if you are just starting out.

Always remember that you can try many of these plug ins by dowloading on a trial basis. Hope that helps.

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