

If you can't do great work with it, you don't know what you're doing.

I'm a happy customer, and I don't mind making the extra effort to help sell people on the product, because I believe in it. In addition, support is amazing - you can post on the Steinberg Wavelab forum, and the programmer himself is there working with people, answering questions, directly interacting with customers. I love working with it - mastering people's albums, doing editing work - it's a great tool. The metering included is second to none -extensive, and very customizeable. The spectrum editor gives you incredible editing capability - you can remove p-pops often - even at the mastering stage - and you can do so in a very transparent way. The plugin suite included has everything you need - limiters, eqs, reverbs, compressors, etc. It includes clip based effects, track based effects, master effects. The Wavelab montage is great for putting together a cd master, burning discs, DDP capability, dealing with meta data, ISRC codes, markers, fades, etc. Overall, Wavelab is excellent in all of the areas I am most concerned with. Some do one thing better, and something else worse. What does it do that other software doesn't? Well, you can buy software to do pretty much anything - most of the tools we use are similar - but some seem to work better/faster than others.
