Matron Landslide
Eddie TX
Thanks to Tim for responding to the conspiracy-mongering in this thread.
Cheers,
Eddie
Amen to that!!
And you can take some of the respondents remarks in this thread with a grain of salt, or perhaps a truck load of salt, especially the one(s) who have a loooooooooong track record over the years of having an agenda and being very negatively biased when it comes to Waves, and vocally anti Waves at every opportunity.
Always demo stuff and find out for yourself, it is the only way.
Well I started this thread and I'm a fan of a lot of Waves plugins. Think some of them are overrated, but there are many Waves plugins that I use on every project. I think their Element synth is one of the best VST synths available, and I also love Electric 200. I own the Gold bundle but also lots of other odds and ends, like the Aphex exciter. Not a fan of WUP and I hate their installation process, but you can't have everything.
The reason I started this thread is because I see a lot of companies who host their own reviews on their sites these days and I just think it's wise to be very, very skeptical about them - regardless of what the company claims. Of course they're going to claim that it's all above board - they wouldn't say anything else. Yes, it's marketing. The thing that bothers me is that it's so tempting to be swayed by a bunch of glowing reviews of a plugin when you're on the fence about buying it, and every single review on the Waves site that I've read is glowing. In my experience, opinion doesn't look like this. You'll get some people who rave about it, and others who say "meh - wasn't that impressed." Research has shown that people are more likely to believe reviews when there's a few not so good ones mixed in there.
I guess my skepticism also comes from being a business owner with a website. I get reviews on Yelp and Google - mostly good, but also some complaints in there as well. I quote from reviews on my website. Do I quote the bad ones? Of course I don't! So I'm much more likely to believe the overall picture painted by reviews on sites like Yelp and Amazon than I am on a vendor's own website.
So overall, not saying that all of the reviews on the Waves site are fabricated, just saying that the overall tone of them doesn't look like a realistic cross section of opinion. I mean you can go to Glassdoor and see reviews from Waves employees of what it's like to work there, and most of them are good but there are a couple of negative ones. Something like that looks far more believable, and as a prospective employee I wouldn't be changing my mind about working there based on a small minority of bad reviews.