I just want to throw in a second option here. I bought some plug ins from a company called wave arts and am very very pleased. I had some waves demo's downloaded for a few days and decided to try the wave arts ones against them and honestly thought the wave arts plugs were slightly better than the waves plugs. I ended up buying trackplug5(10 band eq, 2 compressors, gate, and limiter all in one), masterverb5(amazing for the price), and Mulitdynamics5(can't live without it now). I use these plugs over everything else I own and only paid 175 per plug. Plus you don't have to deal with an Ilok or any BS like that. Not to mention also their customer service is world class, I actually had a problem using the plugs in AS(pro tools le 6.4) and got on their forums to complain, well after about 30 minutes I went back to check for responses and a wavearts guy(rob martino) had already answered back and said he'd have a fix emailed to me by the next day. Well 2 hours later he had the fixes to me and had me up and working. Couldn't be happier. I advise everyone who is interested to download the available demo's, 30 days with no annoying pops or glitches.