Poor you, if you equate money spent with value. Let alone the fact that you make two false assumptions - how much money I've spent, and deterioration of the plugin market.Guys like you (who are not spending a decent amount of monies on plugins) are the main reason for the deterioration of the plugin market and for the insolvencies of a lot of developers. Nothing to be proud of.A "better" sounding mix is not restricted to UAD plugins. You can have an excellent mix using stock plugins, or other brands - like softube, fabfilter, waves, etc. This idea that UAD is way above other brands is just snake oil. Maybe you can have a different flavor, so slightly different (so small that is indistinguishable in a mix), but not night and day different. That is all the mixing/mastering engineer and the producer.the one with the better sounding mix will be preferred by almost everyone.
A good producer/mixer using stock plugins of a decent daw (like cubase, live, fl studio, etc) can always get a better sounding mix than an average engineer using whatever plugins they want. This was proven over and over again over time. A different plugin doesn't make a you a better engineer. That's just anxiety infused GAS.
The plugin market is doing better than ever. Let me say that again: BETTER THAN EVER. The number of developers active in this field went 100x from 2004 when I enrolled in this forum. Some devs are asking $350 for a single EQ, launch price. Another dev is charging $200 for a 20year old single band saturation plugin, that is long technically obsolete. Yet, people are buying it.
Also, this market exploded in the last 15 years, since social networks became ubiquitous. The number of "producers" went 100x too.
Also the amount of money you spend is just a story you tell yourself so you can feel good about your choices.
You are laughable at. You really are, and unfortunately a lot of other people in this forum are in the same boat.
Statistics: Posted by Lerian — Sat Nov 30, 2024 1:54 pm