And it gets better results for myself and my clients. Having good tools that I know inside out makes my work more enjoyable.
Tools that sound good, are reliable and easy to work with. It’s important for me to be working with good quality tools. Of course I do stuff like that, I’m a nerd. I read the manuals and spend time on forums to read up about plugins and even sometimes email the devs in order to learn about their approach. I dive into Plugin Doctor almost daily to find out about how something I’m using actually performs under the hood. I regularly do shootouts between different plugins. I enjoy testing and comparing new VST plugins and tools.