Opinions on Waves L3-16?

I can get the L3-16 right now for $140...that's $410 less then normal price.
Major bonus will be it will drop my upgrade to Platinum by $100 or more...


I've downloaded the Demo and the presets sound REALLY good...

Just wondering what the opinions are here...I've read REALLY great reviews...and really bad
reviews...and I'm sure that's due to "usage"

Just curious to hear what you guys think...

I've always been very happy with the Ozone package

$140 still seems pretty steep for just a limiter.  For just a few bucks more, you could get Ozone and have many more features, and IMHO its limiter is second to none.  Try a demo and see for yourself how it compares to the Waves L-series.  Good luck!
 
Cheers,
Eddie 

But I will check out Ozone and see how it stacks up...

that's the reason i like the Waves stuff so much...

Transparancy

I realize this is a little OT but if your in the market for a transparent Limiter you might want to check out the Slate FG-X.

Rocky

Larry, glad to hear about your Ozone demo.  I think its limiter is more advanced than Waves' stuff, even though I'm a Waves fan. 
 
I never use Ozone's reverb ... been using Valhalla and sometimes Breverb lately.  Much better I think.
 
Ozone's EQ is cool, though.  Fun "matching" feature, and the alt-solo function is very useful (hit alt key to solo a band, then sweep up and down to find problem freqs).
 
The dynamics section can work wonders on a lot of material.  What I do is let the "learn" function set the bands, then use the histograms to set initial threshold levels.  Then tweak as needed.  The Gate works very well, too.   
 
Saturation is OK ... not really my favorite part, but sometimes comes in handy. 
 
If you've taken advantage of the Groove3 offer, there's a good Ozone tutorial in there.  Have fun!
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

I reckon I'm going to demo this. Used to have an older VST2 demo although I don't recall it being very efficient on my system at that time.  The price is currently $99 which technically is around $20 per limiter component, so isn't too bad I suppose.
 
Having one process to handle many in one plug-in seems more logical to me. In essence this should be used on a final stereo mixdown really.

Zombies had feelings too. Looking at a latency chart for it. I will see if I can I resolve any latency issues I am having. I think my focusrite driver is broken. So may reinstall the 2.5 build.

Ozone is a good production tool but the cost is a bit much for me right now.
 

I suppose I'm looking for a particular function rather than a certain brand. L3-16 would be in flow with my current plug-in purchasing. With an exception of a few Artist plug-ins Waves fares well in my opinion. My ideal situation would be to get an UAD Apollo device and some of their more up to date plug-ins. Not so much the Unison based ones however the Moog Filters which are excellent in my opinion, a couple more of the Precision series just to add to the workflow at the end.
 
Tried the latest 9.2 demo of L3-16 and the latency is greatly reduced. Perhaps because it's 64-bit and using VST3 it's working to my advantage. Last time I was getting clicks and latency bad.
 
I will check out your plug-ins though.
 
TBH I just want to be a better mixer with the tools I have rather than reinventing the wheel by splashing out for plug-ins all of the time. 
 

Waves multi-band limiters, such as the L3-LL and L3-16 has one feature I've not seen in any other plugin: Priority
 
When it comes to limiting, this is a feature that undeniably can help you judiciously dial in the right amount of limiting for how much the kick drum affects the rest of the mix. I never go overboard with it, and it's not a replacement for a great multi-band compressor, such as the Flux Alchemist, but it's very good with band-management in limiting. VERY powerful and unique plug-in!!

I use the L3-LL when I want to manually adjust the release times of each band, but then use the L3-16 next to perform a general multi-band limiting. Finally, for down-sampling, since neither offer this function, I'll drop in a Nugen Audio ISL 2st to handle any final overs from the output of the L3-16.

When it comes down to it, these software products are tried out in studio environments initially not cars and bedrooms. So I never judge a book by it's cover. 
 
I think some of the Waves Artist plug-ins are gimmicky but a big fan of CLA LA collection. Schep's Neve 1073 emulation.  Suppose it's come down to your end needs.