
Bundles are not there to make you save money, they exist to make you spend more. Spending $300 dollars per plugin really shouldn't make you feel lousier than spending 10K to get god knows how many plugins for god knows what use. Point is, if your primary goal is to save money, figure out the plugins you actually really want/need and buy those.

And, at the end of the day, you'd have spent more money that you were initially planning in both situations - this is not what I would call saving money. Now if you never or very rarely put those 10 extra plugins to use, you just basically threw $500 out of the window. Now sometimes, this can be a great deal for customers too - instead of spending 1K to get, say 10 plugins, if you can spend $500 more to get 10 more plugins, most of which you actually have an interest for and will end up putting them to use, it's a win-win situation. Uh we’re glad they went back to the original name.) It uses a FET (field effect transistor) wired in a feedback configuration to reduce gain. (At the time, UA was operating under the name UREI, or United Recording Electronics Industries. Manufacturers bundle plugins because it increases sales, that is, it makes customers to spend more money than they would have otherwise. The 1176 is a 1976 classic from Universal Audio. It seems to me as you don't actually need/want to own absolutely every single UAD plugin but rather that your main concern is buying plugins at the best overall price/overall number of plugs ratio, thinking that you'll actually save the most money this way but seriously, you're only going to spend more money. By merging Universal Audio’s analog/tube know-how and its digital mastering expertise, the Precision Maximizer is an essential tool for every mixer’s toolkit.If your primary goal is actually to save money I feel like you're missing an important point.

For years, the Precision Maximizer has been a go-to for Grammy-winning mastering engineers like Paul Blakemore and project studio engineers looking for a quick polish on a rough mix. The Precision Maximizer for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo interfaces is an easy-to-use dynamic impact processor that magically increases perceived loudness, without destroying your track’s all-important dynamic range. It includes Cambridge EQ, Galaxy Tape Echo, Precision Maximizer and many more. UAD Ultimate 8 Full Bundle includes more than 100 VST Plugins developed by U Audio.
