Kind of. But not really. Maybe we are on the same page but I have a hard time following you sometimes.

When the Beatles went into Abbey Road there were entire rooms with columns and plates and chambers just to get some reverb. Their plugins were literally the size of a house.

Now, you can get many of the same effects they used and 900 to 3,000 others (or more, but I only have 900) from plugins on your laptop.

Producers are people who pick and choose and aren't married to one thing. They are constantly experimenting.

Yes, Reaper has some good stuff and I use it. But there are some things Waves plugins can do that others can't, and the same with Ozone, IK Multimedia and others.

I like having lots of choices. Very, very specific choices.

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