Looking for plugin purchasing advice regarding Waves Abbey Road Bundle

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I’m thinking about buying their current Abbey Road bundle offer for $200. That amount is about what I would spend on the discounted individual plugins I know I want so the rest are either filler or a bonus if I’m lucky :grinning: I know some of you have these so interested in your opinion.

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I have the bundle. I like the plugins. I put the TG Mastering Chain and J37 Tape on my mix bus. I check my mixes through the Studio3 plugin with headphones. I use the Saturator on my lead vocals most times. I just got the compressor, but haven’t gotten to use it, yet. I occasionally use REDD and the passive EQ. I haven’t used the others in the set too much.

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Thanks for the feedback. I did go ahead and get the bundle two days ago and had time yesterday to install. I used a Beatles cover I made of Day Tripper to test some of the plugins like the compressor, tape, plate and redd. I like the plugins, the plate reverb especially.

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Here’s an even worse question than the first one in this thread. I just got an email from Waves offering any 2 plugins free - it was part of their recent promotion. The only other Waves plugin I already have is the Scheps 73 strip. Are there some must have Waves plugins that aren’t in the Abbey Road bundle?

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There are so many… All depends also where you are interested in, mixing tools, instruments, mastering tools.
I use the WLMplus quite a lot to do final corrections of a mix and force it to a specific LUFS. I use VocalRider standard to smooth out vocal volumes. RVox also helps a lot on vocals. As for the instruments, the Slap Bass (Base Slapper) - if you need it - is kind of special, as I have not seen it in other VSTs, and sounds good. Others, which I consider good also given the huge competition are the L2, the API 550, CLA 76. All depends if you have already good alternatives obviously…

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The MDMX Distortion Modules, which I think qualifies as ONE free VST, is also quite nice and can do crazy things to your sound, and basically you get 3 distortion plugins in a nice interface

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@adderoo - thanks for the advice on the other Waves plugins. The vocal rider seems like a good candidate. Last year I bought IK Total Studio Max which includes most the T-Racks 5 plugins. Those have been really helpful. I’m interested in adding plugins to help mixing.