Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[dzilizzi]

I got a $50 dollar one too. Last month it was only $25 and I am not even sure I used it.

I'm wondering if the sales aren't going to be as good? Or is it just a one time thing. But really, it does get me looking at the plugins in the $60 to $75 range. I need to check what I have though. I think I have a lot of the cheaper ones they sell.

[Uncle E]

This is how I've been doing it. The King's mic's were first to go on sale cheap, so I got those. Then I got Redd when it got down to around $25. Still waiting for the rest though....

And really? I just want the Abby Road Plates.

Given that Mercury Bundle owners get any new Waves plugin for free when they come out, do Abbey Road Collection owners get any new Abbey Road plugins for free?

[mgw38]

This is how I've been doing it. The King's mic's were first to go on sale cheap, so I got those. Then I got Redd when it got down to around $25. Still waiting for the rest though....

And really? I just want the Abby Road Plates.

Given that Mercury Bundle owners get any new Waves plugin for free when they come out, do Abbey Road Collection owners get any new Abbey Road plugins for free?

No, Abbey Road Bundle owners do not get new plugins for free.

[Aloysius]

Waves have a special agreement with Abbey Road.

Waves Abbey Road Collection registers as single Abbey Road plugins in your account. This is normal, and due to our agreement with Abbey Road Studios.
When additional Waves Abbey Road plugins are added to the line, you have the option to add them at a special price.

1. Log into Waves.com and go to My Products.
2. Click on Upgrade - next to any Abbey Road plugin.
3. Choose to upgrade online.
4. Check mark all Abbey Road plugins 1 by 1.

[waltercruz]

wot got a 75 voucher from PA.

So, EQ4 was a great wish. Reading if EQ2 is too different, as I could get it basically for free (well, 4 bucks)

[Aloysius]

I go $100 this month. Guilty conscience over the TAX f'up? Managed to upgrade all my SPL Plug-ins for next to nothing (including TAX).

[VariKusBrainZ]

wot got a 75 voucher from PA.

So, EQ4 was a great wish. Reading if EQ2 is too different, as I could get it basically for free (well, 4 bucks)

I bide my time, already got EQ2 free

Its a gentle scam like the rest of EU governance

[Temptin]

Currently my Waves.com account with 3 of the AbbeyRoad plugins (Redd, Vinyl, ADT) is saying "$182" to upgrade to the whole collection. That seems to be a discounted upgrade offer and it seems like the normal "upgrade to the whole collection" price is supposed to be like $800 for me (because the normal full bundle price is $1199).

Does anyone think it is worth upgrading to get these:

- Abbey Road Reverb Plates
- EMI TG12345 Channel Strip
- J37 Tape
- RS56 Passive EQ
- The King's Microphones

Honestly, I feel like even at $182 it may be a ripoff to me to get those 5 plugins.

- Abbey Road Reverb Plates: I already have LiquidSonics Seventh Heaven Pro (which has AMAZINGLY warm plates), Altiverb, Reverberate 2, Waves H-Reverb and Lexicon PCM Native.
- EMI TG12345 Channel Strip: I hear it's nuts at CPU usage (10% per instance) and that the sound isn't colored enough to make it worth using.
- J37 Tape: I have Slate VTM and Waves Kramer Master Tape.
- RS56 Passive EQ: Just sounds like a smooth analog-style EQ to me. I already have plenty of that. Like all of the Slate VMR modules, and the Plugin Alliance Lindell TE-100 (the smoothest EQ ever), Waves REDD, bx_console, etc.
- The King's Microphones: This plugin is just some dumb EQ presets. I cloned them with Fabfilter Pro-Q2 with the demo of King's Microphones and Pro-Q2 in "match EQ" mode, and saved them all as presets. They sound totally identical.

[ftech]

Currently my Waves.com account with 3 of the AbbeyRoad plugins (Redd, Vinyl, ADT) is saying "$182" to upgrade to the whole collection. That seems to be a discounted upgrade offer and it seems like the normal "upgrade to the whole collection" price is supposed to be like $800 for me (because the normal full bundle price is $1199).

Does anyone think it is worth upgrading to get these:

- Abbey Road Reverb Plates
- EMI TG12345 Channel Strip
- J37 Tape
- RS56 Passive EQ
- The King's Microphones

Honestly, I feel like even at $182 it may be a ripoff to me to get those 5 plugins.

- Abbey Road Reverb Plates: I already have LiquidSonics Seventh Heaven Pro (which has AMAZINGLY warm plates), Altiverb, Reverberate 2, Waves H-Reverb and Lexicon PCM Native.
- EMI TG12345 Channel Strip: I hear it's nuts at CPU usage (10% per instance) and that the sound isn't colored enough to make it worth using.
- J37 Tape: I have Slate VTM and Waves Kramer Master Tape.
- RS56 Passive EQ: Just sounds like a smooth analog-style EQ to me. I already have plenty of that. Like all of the Slate VMR modules, and the Plugin Alliance Lindell TE-100 (the smoothest EQ ever), Waves REDD, bx_console, etc.
- The King's Microphones: This plugin is just some dumb EQ presets. I cloned them with Fabfilter Pro-Q2 with the demo of King's Microphones and Pro-Q2 in "match EQ" mode, and saved them all as presets. They sound totally identical.

Looks and sounds like you're covered if you choose not to upgrade to the collection.
I updated my WUP a couple of months ago during a sale (and with additional discount from everyplugin.com) and used my 50% off bundle voucher to upgrade to the AR collection. That ended up costing not much more than what you're looking at paying for the collection alone.

[Ryan99]

Currently my Waves.com account with 3 of the AbbeyRoad plugins (Redd, Vinyl, ADT) is saying "$182" to upgrade to the whole collection. That seems to be a discounted upgrade offer and it seems like the normal "upgrade to the whole collection" price is supposed to be like $800 for me (because the normal full bundle price is $1199).

Does anyone think it is worth upgrading to get these:

- Abbey Road Reverb Plates
- EMI TG12345 Channel Strip
- J37 Tape
- RS56 Passive EQ
- The King's Microphones

Honestly, I feel like even at $182 it may be a ripoff to me to get those 5 plugins.

- Abbey Road Reverb Plates: I already have LiquidSonics Seventh Heaven Pro (which has AMAZINGLY warm plates), Altiverb, Reverberate 2, Waves H-Reverb and Lexicon PCM Native.
- EMI TG12345 Channel Strip: I hear it's nuts at CPU usage (10% per instance) and that the sound isn't colored enough to make it worth using.
- J37 Tape: I have Slate VTM and Waves Kramer Master Tape.
- RS56 Passive EQ: Just sounds like a smooth analog-style EQ to me. I already have plenty of that. Like all of the Slate VMR modules, and the Plugin Alliance Lindell TE-100 (the smoothest EQ ever), Waves REDD, bx_console, etc.
- The King's Microphones: This plugin is just some dumb EQ presets. I cloned them with Fabfilter Pro-Q2 with the demo of King's Microphones and Pro-Q2 in "match EQ" mode, and saved them all as presets. They sound totally identical.

Looks like you answered yourself lol

[cprompt]

Waves REDD versus CodeRedFree... thoughts?

I really like CodeRedFree but is REDD, still available for < $25, a big step up? Trouble is, I demod this a couple of years back, can't demo it again and have no recollection of how I felt about it. I like the idea of three consoles and a little drive, but if it's not light years better than CodeRedFree I'm probably better off keeping my money in my pocket!

[Temptin]

Currently my Waves.com account with 3 of the AbbeyRoad plugins (Redd, Vinyl, ADT) is saying "$182" to upgrade to the whole collection. That seems to be a discounted upgrade offer and it seems like the normal "upgrade to the whole collection" price is supposed to be like $800 for me (because the normal full bundle price is $1199).

Does anyone think it is worth upgrading to get these:

- Abbey Road Reverb Plates
- EMI TG12345 Channel Strip
- J37 Tape
- RS56 Passive EQ
- The King's Microphones

Honestly, I feel like even at $182 it may be a ripoff to me to get those 5 plugins.

- Abbey Road Reverb Plates: I already have LiquidSonics Seventh Heaven Pro (which has AMAZINGLY warm plates), Altiverb, Reverberate 2, Waves H-Reverb and Lexicon PCM Native.
- EMI TG12345 Channel Strip: I hear it's nuts at CPU usage (10% per instance) and that the sound isn't colored enough to make it worth using.
- J37 Tape: I have Slate VTM and Waves Kramer Master Tape.
- RS56 Passive EQ: Just sounds like a smooth analog-style EQ to me. I already have plenty of that. Like all of the Slate VMR modules, and the Plugin Alliance Lindell TE-100 (the smoothest EQ ever), Waves REDD, bx_console, etc.
- The King's Microphones: This plugin is just some dumb EQ presets. I cloned them with Fabfilter Pro-Q2 with the demo of King's Microphones and Pro-Q2 in "match EQ" mode, and saved them all as presets. They sound totally identical.

Looks and sounds like you're covered if you choose not to upgrade to the collection.
I updated my WUP a couple of months ago during a sale (and with additional discount from everyplugin.com) and used my 50% off bundle voucher to upgrade to the AR collection. That ended up costing not much more than what you're looking at paying for the collection alone.

Looks like you answered yourself lol

Thank you both, especially ftech for the thoughtful answer and the idea for a future workaround via a WUP voucher. I will skip the rest of the Abbey Road plugins, at least until they come out with some other plugin to make it worth it.

The reverb plates bring no new sounds to my arsenal, the TG channel strip uses too much CPU and has no real sound character advantages over my other analog emulations, the J37 tape isn't the best tape emulator, the passive EQ is smooth but I am covered in that area, and the king's mic's are just static EQ curves which I've already cloned for fun.

That settles it.

As for why I bought 3 plugins separately (perhaps this helps someone else discover them):

- REDD Consoles: Was on 4th of July sale for $29 (down to something like $22 with vouchers at AudioDeluxe), and it has a very colored, warm 60's "worn-out, fat sound" which most other plugins don't emulate (because most other hardware that gets emulated is much newer).
- Reel ADT: It did something unique: Automatic tape-emulated double tracking. Nice and unique effect. But I hardly use it and could live without it. Wouldn't have bought it these days. It was an impulse during its intro years ago, when I thought "wow, what a quick way to get a double-tracked vocal sound!"... and yeah it does have some good moments, but it's not great.
- Abbey Road Vinyl: Thought it was pointless at first, but after listening more I noticed that it really does sound like vinyl. Lovely, gentle crackles and hiss, wow and flutter, bass bump, smoothing the highs, etc. It's absolutely perfect and makes the music feel more organic and alive. The most outstanding and unique plugin in the Abbey Road bundle.

[Numanoid]

Some nice freebies by Ignite VST

https://ignitevst.com/freebies/

I thought Beat Magazine had scored an exclusive when they offered full version of Areena reverb and Vice One in one of their latest issues, but here it is for everybody to have for free

[swatwork]

Some nice freebies by Ignite VST

https://ignitevst.com/freebies/

I thought Beat Magazine had scored an exclusive when they offered full version of Areena reverb and Vice One in one of their latest issues, but here it is for everybody to have for free

Isn't Areena free with this month's Computer Music magazine?

[Numanoid]

Some nice freebies by Ignite VST

https://ignitevst.com/freebies/

I thought Beat Magazine had scored an exclusive when they offered full version of Areena reverb and Vice One in one of their latest issues, but here it is for everybody to have for free

Isn't Areena free with this month's Computer Music magazine?

Yeah you are right, it was free with Beat late last year now that I think about it.

Nevertheless goes to show that magware seldom is exclusive

The Ignite stuff is maybe more likeware than freeware, gotta share the info on social media to get access to download...