Waves Chris Lord-Alge Signature bundle...$279

Must... Resist... 
Just saw that minutes ago. They make it very hard for me to stick w/ my decision never to buy anything that requires iLock. :s

I might end up having to anyway - the two studios we're we'll be recording vocals and guests for the project are both Pro Tools based, and it'll probably just make the whole process a whole lot easier for me to handle and supervise it using PT, which means iLock anyway.


So this would open the door for me to buy a few Waves plug-ins.


Anyone using a hub for the iLock? My laptop only has 2 ports, one of which is for the audio interface, but I could use the other for a hub to share it between my midi keyboard ad the iLock.

Awesome. I guess. :s  Is this some sort of conspiracy to get me to buy Waves?

Oh well, here we go, anyway. Thanks Bapu. :)

places like waves universe and plugindiscounts should have it for 60 less or so from waves' price.

Anyone use the Waves desser?

YoRo: Why is the Waves V8 installer such a pain in the ass? I wanted to hear the CLA Vocal plug..it was successfully sent to my ilok account...I keep downloading the installer and X1 keeps telling me that an artist Library dll cannot be found

Just watched the JJP vid when it was announced on FB this morning. Against all my apprehension, it does seem to work as advertised. :s 

Maybe someday I'll give up on trying and accept the fact that, oh well, I'm a songwriter and an arranger in the first place, and that relying on such gimmicks might not be immoral in my case. lol

Same here - well, not that I ever had a Studer but, reel to reel analog and board. Seems there was only so much you could do, the tape took care of the rest and at worst, you lived with it because, that's what music was.

And you know what? I was working on a cover yesterday and was feeling more and more negative about my own mix, so I un-muted and solo'ed the original, a classic of the late 70's. And, you know, it sucked too. lol It made me realize once more how much they could sometime get away with back then and it'd be okay - we're still listening to those songs and buying the records. 

Oh, and a Fostex R8 reel to reel recorder in my garage....that was a fun machine

Which leaves me wondering, since, against all odds, this "presets" thing seems to work, how well would the EZ Mix do... Of course there's much less to tweak, but, in theory, it could still be better than I'd first thought.

Thanks for confirming Bapu. I listened to some of the demos and I figured there might be some bad ones in there because some of those mixes were plain awful. 

Gaffpro,

EZMix is a TootTrack product that operates along the lines of the Waves CLA, JJP et. al. products.

Hey Gaffpro, ol pal.  You DID download the licenses to your iLok BEFORE you installed the vsts didn't you?

I use the UAD de-esser mostly but the WAVES de-esser is on deep discount sale as well on the WAVES site and I'm sure it is very good.

Gaffpro

I'll look into EZ mix, although I think I may already have it (seems like I have everything Toontrack at this point, lol)

I've downloaded the demo. Of course, one can see it as a quick fix, but I for one tend to look at it as a learning/testing tool.


It's one thing to read articles and watch tutorials, but it's sometimes harder to translate that knowledge in your own mixes. EZ Mix allows you to try and find what works directly in your own mix - solo'ed and in context. Of course you can leave it at that, but for me, I think it's more like a bunch of suggestions: this is the type of sound that works in your mix, now grab a compressor and an EQ and work to get that type of sound, not necessarily duplicating it nut more like following in that particular direction and bringing it to the next level.


In spite of all my apprehensions, I like it. :)