UAD plugins --

{quote:title=ShuckJiveHuckstah wrote:}
personally, for the price, they aren't 'all that'. Unless you are a pro making a living with your work, I wouldn't waste the money. The plugins are tres expensive, tres processor hungry (which is why they use the PCI-e cards which leaves Imac users out of the loop) and I have listened to mixes from both UAD, TC Powercore and Focusrite Liquid Mix and really could NOT, repeat NOT tell the difference.
Now, do the math:
UAD with Nevana plug ins with Wave processor bundle running on a new intel mac with Logic Studio 8
or
Imac running logic express and Fopcusrite Liquid Mix.
If you want to impress your clients and make good money, know what you are doing (yes, I am talking about completion of a bona fide school in audio engineering) then go for the former.
If you are a home hobbyist who wants to have a phat sounding final mix with little hassle, nice templates laid out for you to which you could probably send off to the pressing plant and it will sound as good as the former, go with TC Powercore or Liquid Mix.
One last note. The latter are firewire buscentric so they will inheret some latency to and from the Mac, but logic's delay compensation with a good audio card running ASIO drivers (Apogee, MOTU traveller) will compensate and you'll never hear it unless you are running 60 plus track counts.
UAD stuff is PCI-e based so latency is minimal if any.
Lastly, crap in, crap out. If your mix ***** to begin with, no amount of sweetening on the end of the mix will fix it, so bear that in mind. Pros use pro products but they are also trained audio professionals with years of schooling and experince. If you think you are going to pick up a pro product and immediately sound like a pro, you are in for a rude awakening.{quote}