Waves Renaissance Channel. Renaissance Channel (right) comes as part of Waves' Renaissance Maxx bundle and is a combination of the four-band Renaissance EQ and either Renaissance Compressor or Renaissance Vox as the dynamics section of the channel.

I'm never sure what it is I'm supposed to take away from such polls. Is it that I should go out and buy whatever is most popular among a certain group? I don't select anything else by that criteria. Makehuman 2 0 updates.

I don't drive a Toyota Camry, for instance (no room for my gear!). Is it that the collective wisdom of a group can discern what's 'best' better than an individual could?

Call it the 'Justin Bieber' theory, e.g. 50 million fans can't be wrong.

Should I assume that the poll respondents a) know more about plugins than the rest of us, or that b) have tried out more plugins than we have, and therefore possess information not generally known? Doesn't seem likely, given that none of the products listed are the least bit obscure.

I'm curious; who reads these kinds of lists and then bases subsequent purchase decisions on them? Bitflipper I'm never sure what it is I'm supposed to take away from such polls. Is it that I should go out and buy whatever is most popular among a certain group?

I don't select anything else by that criteria. I don't drive a Toyota Camry, for instance (no room for my gear!). I find polls, reviews, comments and the like useful in the other direction. If hundreds are dissatified I can quickly stay way. If many are happy, then it might be worth going further and learning about the advantages and disadvantages and how I myself might benefit. But that's only a starting point. The poll in question has to be weighted in favour of the cheap or free, just because they allow a larger number to participate.

If the best compressor is 1000$ (which it might very well be) but only one voter has ever used it, the compressor won't be high on the list. It would have been better to label the poll as 'Most Popular', not 'Best'. I agree that polls are nonsense. Are we expected to believe that the people who voted for EQ no.1 fairly evaluated EQ's nos. 2 through 10 before making their decision? People choose their favorite compressor of the compressors they've ended up trying for one reason or another, and that's it.

I mean they probably have some vague meaning in that some of those people will have ended up using compressors through reading positive reviews and comments on forums, but there are many other factors at play there. Has compressor A been marketed better tha compressor B, and that's why more people know about it? Personally I prefer reading detailed reviews with sound examples, buts that's just me. I've said it before if Sonar would update the gui of the sonitus plugins.there would be many people swear they sound better.

(those are pretty good plugins.) I believe that most of those comps in the list are very good, and a 'pro' mixer could get 'pro' results with any of them. What happens in these polls is people vote for what they use.

MJUC and Kotelnikov are pretty cheap and probably have many users. (Users = Votes). I love MJUC and Kotelnikov and about 20 others I have, but they don't compare with the beast that is Pro-C2.

(I don't own Pro-C2) I use the compressors that are fast and simple, because I don't think it matters much either way. If I need to shave off a db or two. No one will know which one I used by listening. I do like to see the small independent Devs get some credit for quality work. Batsbrew i usually listen to folks who i know, who actually 'produce' products that pass muster.