As far as I can tell, the hardware investment to get Waves to use with the SQ is gonna be around $2-3k… not including the plugins.
a UAD Live rack will be a comparable investment through Dante, and you already are invested into the Dante system…
to me, it’s a big investment for what I’d consider to be a small % improvement to the sound quality from what I already get from what A&H provided already, and while MBC is cool and all, even the LiveRack version I’d have to use on a submix, I have a hard time justifying the cost both monetarily and the expense of a rack slot…
I’d imagine they’ll be looking for ways to increase our rack slots soon to compensate…