Reply To: 🆓 Waves Gives Away Free Plugin for Black Friday

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On Brian said

On jude77 said

I quit Waves during the subscription fiasco and since then I can’t say I really missed them.

Same here.  I added their freebies to my account for a while in case I ever went back, but I don’t bother anymore.

We have to give Waves credit for bringing down effects plugin prices. Without their always on $29 and $39 plugin sales, we wouldn’t have seen the rest of the market come down. Three years ago, if I told you that in the future you’d be able to buy native UAD plugins for less than $9 each in a bundle of 10, you would have likely thought that was far-fetched. But the best part about that is, we don’t have to buy Waves anymore. There are a ton of great alternatives. Although, I still haven’t replaced the Abbey Road stuff — I’m eager to do so.

I’m wondering — and anyone who feels strongly one way or other, please weigh in — is anyone disappointed that I don’t bother to post almost any Waves sales? I look at it this way, if you want to buy a Waves plugin, they’re always on sale for around the same prices. It seems a waste of time to bother posting the same sale adnauseum (pun intended), which is Waves promotional strategy.

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