For most people, those are one of the best mastering and mixing plugins actually available.
Togheter with the Universal Audio bundles, Waves Platinum (or other versions of it), are the most used plugins in the whole audio and music industry.
The range of their applications can space from the professional users, to the common audio amateur, since their reliability and ease of use interfaces and controls.
The Waves Platinum contains all of the Gold 3.2 Bundle plus it adds more. You get the Renaissance Channel (along with other plugins that were formerly in the Renaissance 2 collection) and the Masters bundles. They key question: is it worth it to upgrade to Platinum or is Gold enough?
Of course the answer to that depends on your current system. If you absolutely need an ILok authorization so you can painlessly use Waves on both a Mac and your PC or on your studio and home computer then I think you should go Platinum. This put the authorization of a USB key that you can plug into whatever computer you want. Those upgrading from a PC to a Mac g5 in particular have ample motivation to upgrade to Platinum. You can use your plugins on either system.
You get the new Renaissance channel with Platinum. Is it cool? At first, i was skeptical. Then I finally tried it. It's like a channel strip in some ways, with stereo eq, compression, gating. Ok. its a track insert, I thought. But I tried a whole mix through it and found more--phase reversal, stereo imaging, sidechains and even overload protection. Very impressive, with some well-crafted presets designed to add "punch".
You can improve a mix using the Rchannel alone rather substantially. On the other hand, you can get almost the same result by effectively chaining eq-->compressor-->Maxx Bass-->S1 imager-->L1 in the 3.2 collection. That's a combination i used a lot. The Rchannel just does it all in one plugin. Hence it is really convenient. Now that I have it, I will use it more than chaining up a lot of stuff.
Other plugins Platinum adds over Gold are the Masters linear phase eq, multiband, and L2 Ultramaximizer (the gold has earlier versions of eq, the C4 multiband and L1 Ultramaximizer). Big difference here? Depends on who you are and what you are doing. A Mastering engineer will find and appreciate the difference.
These plugins are called the "Masters" not because the programmer likes golf, but because they are designed for people who are purists about audio and who master people's material for a living. The Masters are plugins that give you a GUI that allows you to make an exacting small difference. What's this "linear phase" thing? The Waves Linear Multiband manual goes into great detail on "masking", "smearing" and phase shifts that happen with typical eq and multiband processors. And how their software saves the day for you here.
The Platinum version adds the plugins from the Renaissance Collection 2 (not to be confused with the original Renaissance collection, which is already in the 3.2 set). This gives you the Renaissance Vox, R-bass, R-De-esser. You already have the Renaissance reverb, R-eq, and R-compressor in 3.2). How important are these? The R-Bass is very very good at bring out the low bass subwoofer tonalities, better than the Max Bass in 3.2 which is best at getting a big bass sound out of a small speaker.
Waves discontinued the Renaissance Native and Renaissance 2 collection and merged them into the Renaissance Maxx collection. So if you already have the Waves Gold and want to get the Renaissance channel should you get the Renaissance Maxx? Well, Maybe Not. You already have 3 of Renaissance plugins in the Gold 3.2. You should go all the way to Platinum, because in Platinum you get the whole Renaissance Maxx, the whole Masters plus the 3.2 Gold. Whew, it requires a genealogist to keep all these inbred lines straight. But I think we have it straight here.
One of the FAQs that is commonly read in forums and sites is : are really Waves Plugins worth it?
Well the answer is not that easy, since it depends on personal taste, but with objectiveness i cas firmly state that we are in front of a really good plugin suite which can make your mixes sound like the ones in which analog equipment is used.
Anyway
If it's worth it, depends on so many factors, most subjective, and the state of your financial well being. I think the Ultramazimixer L1+ is worth a lot. While there are many loudness maximizers out there now, none seem to do it as transparently or as simply. The multiband and reverbs totally sweeten the deal. If you work with samples, the eq is a must have. The Native Gold set is one of those things that makes you shake your head and pace around the room before you buy, but once you work with them. hear them, regrets may vanish.
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