New Waves stuff

[JFreak]

Are everybody ok with the fact that Waves only sells their new stuff as a part of their "Mercury bundle"? I myself am very pissed about their newest policy; as if their "update program" wasn't enough. This is too much! I consider myself an ex customer.

They have released interesting stuff, but I won't buy it if I have to buy useless stuff first. Am I alone with my feelings?

[Drew Mazurek]

I've still got the RenMaxx bundle I bought 8 years ago and I did cave in and buy the SSL bundle (the E Channel is awesome) but that's it. No more. I don't care how good it sounds. And I'm sure the V stuff come unbundled at some point.

[roberts]

Typical Waves ...

O V E R P R I C E D!

[ProTooler]

This is very disappointing to me as well. I'm surprised that there is no upgrade path, especially with the price being so high for the Merc bundle. A big marketing mistake in my estimation, losing sales to many of us who already have a lot of their plugs already. I would guess that after the first of the year, the'll offer an upgrade, but for now, this is their strategy to max out on revenue. Typical.

[thin ice]

I gradually got rid of my dependency on Waves with the help of some useful recommendations for replacements from DUC members. They are like a cable tv package now. You have to take 150 channels you don't want just to access the sports or movies.

[dubaifox]

I don't understand why you guys are complaining.

On their website it says:
The TDM version is only 12,500
The Native is only 7,500.

I haven't done the conversion from Israeli currency but in US dollars that is dirt cheap.

[Jeff Ulmer]

This is very disappointing to me as well. I'm surprised that there is no upgrade path, especially with the price being so high for the Merc bundle. A big marketing mistake in my estimation, losing sales to many of us who already have a lot of their plugs already. I would guess that after the first of the year, the'll offer an upgrade, but for now, this is their strategy to max out on revenue. Typical.

Mercury was only released on Friday, you can be assured that there will be upgrade pricing soon. Be patient. As for the passing on the new plugs, it is too bad you feel that way as these are easily some of the best plugs Waves has released so far - I know, I've been using them for the past couple of months during the testing cycle.

[Cliffy_Boy]

Of course there's an upgrade path. Log into your account and choose what you're upgrading from and you'll get the price. For my Diamond TDM, it's about $4600.

[bad jitter]

For my Diamond TDM, it's about $4600.

The street price of that update is "only" $3000.

[Dutchmuzik]

Mercury was only released on Friday, you can be assured that there will be upgrade pricing soon. Be patient. As for the passing on the new plugs, it is too bad you feel that way as these are easily some of the best plugs Waves has released so far - I know, I've been using them for the past couple of months during the testing cycle.

Since you are a beta tester, what happened to this ?

The L-Series, including the new L316 16-band Multimaximizer™