Unfortunate to hear that the Kush plugs are not stable on M1. They are really good on the high percussion as well.I tried out the Kush plugins and damn, these are incredible, especially on low end. They get it fat and warm very quickly. The thing about the Perkons Kick that I make is the low end is huge but the peaks are in the sub range as well.So the kick sounds great but really was not punching in the right frequency. I thought I'd have to retrack the kick, but I first ran it through some Omega N and then Bliss. That got my kick punching right where I want it and it gently lowered the sub low end that was overpowering the track.Thanks! On that track the kick is Perkons and SSF UK pitched low and made so there is a looseness to the kick and set back a bit in the mix. I used various Kush Audio saturation plugs on different tracks, Echoboy decapitator on the synth line, very short attacks and decays and SPL transient designer plug on the highs. Liberal use of Echoboy. Crackly rain sound is an Osmose preset. Morphing wavetable FM and Spectraphon filtered and delayed in the modular which came out quite grainy, Kush EQ plug on almost everything. Kush Clariphonic on most tracks.I like your dubby tracks dubonaire. Is there some processing to get that dusty sound ? Sounds cool.
I just made that in a few hours and did one live take on Sunday afternoon which is the only time I really get to be in the studio in the right headspace so it's far from perfect.
Only issue with Kush is the M1 beta plugins are unstable, and to use all the plugs in the collection I have to run in rosetta mode and Im not going to do that. Thinking I may print the processed audio. But these plugs are such a compliment to the Perkons and my analog bass synths that I am kind of hooked on them now.
On the sound design side, not sure if you all have the same issue but where the kick 1 seems to sound really good is around a tuning of 3 and decay a little over 2 on algo 1. If I pitch up more, it loses the punch. If I keep it where I like it, the peak of the kick is super low, at like 28 hz or so. I think I just need to get a little better at dialing in the kicks, but it still sounds great after processing.
There are other sweet spots, but those are the most easy to find. Honestly the Jomox Kick has so many more sweet spots in so many different styles, but I think the Perkons kick rewards very careful dialing in. I’ve just set up my studio again after moving so I’ll get back to you on this. I think it’s always good to be mindful that most if not all the kicks even from the Roland machines that we hear on professional tracks have been processed through high end gear or are processed multiple phase-aligned samples. I think expectations for recorded kicks are very high now.
Statistics: Posted by dubonaire — Fri May 10, 2024 2:24 am