I'm feeling kinda duped for buying H-EQ last week, I don't really see anything about it that I can't do (more easily) with MW EQ. If you're happy with the results, but think you could be happier, then consider buying a Waves API or SSL plug.Īgreed. Apply that knowledge to your mixes using the stock EQs you already own. My advice (and advice I myself have been trying to take for twelve years!) is to read up on and learn what you can about using EQ, period. And if you know how use them, you'd likely get results in the same ballpark using ParaEQ or MW Equalizer (especially) as you'd get using a Waves EQ plug.
Your plugs are really no better than your ability to successfully understand and use them.
Double goes for compressors, limiters, saturation plugs, even reverb. Why? Because I still don't really understand EQ, which makes having a high-end linear EQ plug no better than using MOTU's ParaEQ. While all of them have their place, and a few of them are flat-out indispensable to me, having forty varieties of EQ has not made my mixes any better. I have expended a great deal of time and money accumulating most of the "dream plugs" I thought would help make my mixes great, including Waves, URS, Chandler, IK Multimedia, PSP, Voxengo and iZotope. And the MW Compressor completely lacks knee adjustment and a broad attack time range, and it's just not enough bands to be transparent enough for mastering, IMO, so I'm at a loss as to where the MW Compressor comes in handy.īut, the standard Dynamics plugin serves its purpose well for being a universal dynamics plug. They have no single band compressor in the MW level of products, so while the dynamics plugin is adequate, it really doesn't have the flexibility it should. I've just always felt that MOTUs been a little lacking in the compressor category.
The Leveler is a very competent LA-2A representation that can stack up with the best of them. it might not be Altiverb, but you can get a lot of great sound out of it. On the other hand, the MW Limiter, while not having all the fine-tune adjustments of the Ultramaximizers, is a very competent brick wall limiter with lookahead. I just bought the Waves C6, their high-end dynamic EQ, and it blows away the MW Compressor. I've never been able to get the MW Compressor to do what I wanted it to. I would say all of them do a great job serving their purpose, with possibly the exception of the MW Compressor, which I feel is lacking in some necessary features and parameters. The masterworks plugins are quite extraordinary for bundled plugins.
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