cjcayea
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thats right, you heard me: i have over 700 plugins. i noticed this morning while installing ableton live 11. i’m sure there are a lot of duplicates, AU and VST of the same thing. but if there are even half that many unique plugs, that’s still 350. that seems like way too many especially since around 75-85% of the plugins i use are native to Live. a handful of synths, and a small smattering of specialty effects, thats all i use. maybe 20 in total. wasteful. at the end of the day, all the other plugins are just clutter and distraction.
when i first got into recording music, i did what we all do and i googled the **** out of it and i asked a ton of dumb questions and i got alot of dumb answers. but one of the wisest things i was told by the grizzled vets of music production was to quit searching for The Next Great Thing
and master what you already have. focus on the fundamentals.
so this is all just the long way of saying, y’all were right. i know i received just this feedback here, from some of you. for a long time i attached the price of a piece of gear to its value, against your advice. it was a habit i had to break the hard way. so let this be a cautionary tale against throwing money at your weak music. don’t buy 300 plugins thinking it’s the thing you need, “if only i had this synth or that model tubescreamer i could finally create my masterpiece!” it doesn’t work, it never has, and the only things it will reliably create are debt and denial
when i first got into recording music, i did what we all do and i googled the **** out of it and i asked a ton of dumb questions and i got alot of dumb answers. but one of the wisest things i was told by the grizzled vets of music production was to quit searching for The Next Great Thing

so this is all just the long way of saying, y’all were right. i know i received just this feedback here, from some of you. for a long time i attached the price of a piece of gear to its value, against your advice. it was a habit i had to break the hard way. so let this be a cautionary tale against throwing money at your weak music. don’t buy 300 plugins thinking it’s the thing you need, “if only i had this synth or that model tubescreamer i could finally create my masterpiece!” it doesn’t work, it never has, and the only things it will reliably create are debt and denial