I recommended they lower their monthly price to $9 or less instead of $19 like before. Any more and people will drop quickly as it is too expensive as the years go by. I only do Groove3 at $99 per year (sometimes less via sales.) and ask.audio at $9 per month because they're economical. Thinking about ADSR as I think they're also $9 per month... Was with SonicAcademy YEARS ago when they had their old cheesy, broken site, but not since. Just too expensive at $160+ per year.
But I'm glad you got the course. Seems like it's worth it for $29. They should make more sales like this as I won't be paying $350 like I did for their Audio Weapons course a few years ago. He's a really nice guy and makes quality stuff. But... The market is different now. Just too many good options out there to be spending that much. And that goes for plugins too. Companies need to reevaluate their pricing and lower it now as 'they ain't worth what they used to be'.
Like iZotope and Soundtoys recently have done. I was able to buy into and get ALL their stuff very cheap this year with their 'loyalty bundle' offerings and other subsequent offers. Got pretty much everything from izotope for like $500 or so ultimately, and all of Soundtoys for $175 based on having owned a few freebie products already. Smart. So smart of them. I would never have bought all their stuff otherwise. Love Ozone 7, but not for $500 for that alone. Nor their packages at $1500+. Same for Soundtoys and everyone else.
Glad to see some companies like these two understand the 'time value of money'.
I see Rob Papen is doing it now with his package pricing based on people owning 1, 2 or 3 products, etc. That style is smart. Eventide too, but I'm waiting for a deal on their Anthology package for half the current $599 price for owning 3 products. Sadly I only own one product from them so far. E.g. the freebie from Focusrite & Eventide this month. Wished they give away the analog channel again. I missed that one! Dang it...
Marketing matters.
Slate was doing sales like a mad man for years and it's paid off. He's worked hard and raised quality and teamworked with some of the best in the industry. Now he can charge a premium. But I still won't be throwing away $25 per month on a monthly plugin subscription. I personally only buy at a discount. I'm a value investor. A Warren Buffet wannabe of investing into the discount margin like his mentor Graham did. Just with fun audio plugs instead.
For example I FINALLY bought Waves SSL 4000 after waiting now for 4-5 years to buy it. I wasn't EVER going to pay $799. For me, $180.79 on sale this week is finally worth it. (Thank you Uncle E for price matching! Can I say that?) I bought it just for the master buss. Sounds beautiful! Finally have that true SSL sound. And to my ears it sounds better than the UAD version. It has that wonderful warm but full tone. It pops and hypes just right without being harsh. The Whitesides preset, the SSLCenterMastering preset and the Dave W preset all come closer to giving me 'that sound' than most everything else I've tried and I own ALL the other plugins except for the UAD the Softube console and the Duende SSL emulations. Yet.
Give me deep discounted sales and I'll buy those too. lolz. But even that price is actually still high these days considering the competition and the number of alternatives out there. My Slate VBC comes very close. Even my Kush N transformer for $20 is awesome! lol. There's some phat emulation out there in places.
Anyway, Vespers and others need to ensure they post here in these type deals threads regularly or their missing out on sales that otherwise would have occurred. Rekkerd's Deals section is another one I check. I'm sure there are many others...
