In the beggining, there was the heaven, and the earth. Then god created Man. And Man said "Lord, give unto us the gift of music production". And god gave it unto him, and it was good. Then on the sixth day, god created production hardware, and it was also good. But as hard as man worked, he just could not afford a decent compressor, unless he cut back on the money he wanted to spend on an eq, or a noise gate etc. God, sympathetic to man's plight, created production software, and all was not good. "It does not sound warm, oh lord" man cried "It sounds thin! It's no where NEAR as good as analog hardware, oh lord! Like, were you drunk or something?!" and the lord again sympathized with the plight of man, and on the seventh day, instead of resting, god created the miracle of THE PLUG-IN. Oh how man loved the mighty plug-in, no more cramped studios filled wall to wall with rackmount hardware, NO! Plug-ins changed everything. Seeing man's comfort in the miraculous plug-ins, god turned thier control over to man saying "I give you all the sound-bearing plug-ins in urge to use!" and in turn, man began to improve upon god's divine creation, until one day, a company, known as MAXX created the Waves plug-ins, a suite of incredibly powerful audio plug-ins, ranging from pitch-correctors, to voccodders to compressors to EQ's (and don't get me started on the Ranaisance channel plug-in!)and there was much rejoicing. Even at $1299 usd, the plug-ins were a bargain, and today, there's narry a studio that doesn't have at least a few waves plug-ins kicking around. So know you know the gospel of the plug-ins, and why, if you have the dough, you can't go wrong with the Waves Diamond Bundle.
Manphet