That’s just not really true. The better Waves and early Sony Oxford plugins were very well thought out. There are a ton of well-marketed plugins now that aren’t as good as the Waves Renaissance Compressor and EQ that came out in 90s. Even the lauded Fabfilter Pro Q is only about as good as the Ren EQ and Oxford EQ being a decramped eq. Sure you can the PSP, Weiss, and TDR eqs now for both ideal analog phase and amplitude and they sound better but I remember the days when the PSP EQs were heavy on the cpu and my laptop from 2016 or so went nuts with the Weiss EQ1 and DS1 when they came out.True, Waves have barely updated their old plugins except for the GUI and support for more modern systems. They're essentially still running 1990's DSP code at the core.My point was just that of course you're going to pay less for 1994 technology in 2024.
And it's still going to sound just as bad today. The difference is today we have a lot of better options.
Hell, the L2 and L3 were better options.
On the other hand, even those newer, better options are very cheap (or even free) these days. Only a few very powerful and respected brands can still sell their plugins for those kinds of prices. More and more developers are copying Waves and doing constant devaluation sales to the point where $29 for a plugin is pretty much the norm.
Even limiter wise, most of this stuff is not really better than L2. Sure you can hit the multiband ones hotter but many of them are not over sampled, only have true peak clippers but not volume modulation, and the looks heads are so long to have less distortion on paper that they pump and breath the present down randomly based on the future. For every Xenon, Limiter 6, or Stealth Limiter that was a big improvement, there are 10 multiband ones that will remix your tracks, ones with such a long lookahead that they sound like an envelope on the master fader, or sound like a clipper when sped up not to sound like wiggling the master fader. Then the ones that limit with distortion like Oxford Limiter’s enhance slider and safe mode or Eventide Newfangled Elevate are another thing. Those two can be cleaner and more effective than L2 but when pushed get very colored and Elevate will remix your tracks where L2 will just clip all the drums off and add the high mid L2 push.
Statistics: Posted by ToMegaTherion — Fri Aug 23, 2024 8:08 pm