Kush Novatron Plugin

Incredible. Just swapping it in place of Disto, it completely slayed it. Slays MJUC and Arouser too. Novatron is the most musical and organized sounding while also evening out dynamics the best of all. Quickest to get results with too. What it's really great at is bringing out a big, pleasing bass presence without making it boomy, even with the HPF set around 200. Exciting and smooth treble. So far I've only been using it on 88/96 mastering sessions of Rock and Metal. Combining it with Black Box, Pulsetec, bx_console, Hornet Tape, NLS, Vsc-2, TCL-2, TapeDesk, Oxford Limiter, Dopamine, and some others. The oversampling button doesn't seem to make a huge difference when working at 88/96. It seems to be doing a lot more than compression. Novatron is taking the best elements of saturation and compression and making it easy to get a top notch sound. I'll have to try using it on vocals instead of CLA76 or Disto. I guess there's some $10 subscription service. Waiting on FG-Stress since I like Disto so much. Too bad there's no demo for Sknote, I'd like to try Disto's new versions. People have claimed they've had to dispute Sknote charges after Quinto fails to respond to refund requests. The subscription thing could make sense if something better comes along in 6-15 months. Why make the $150 purchase investment?

All this subscription stuff does is make me want to only purchase from companies who don't offer it. Given the probable maturity and oversaturation of the plugin market, you'd think they'd knock the purchase prices down to something like $50-$100. Are there really that many new customers entering who don't own anything? I don't want to subscribe to every company who releases something I want, but I also don't want to pay $150 per plugin. Seems like almost every company is offering subscriptions of some kind. I wonder how it's working out. To me, it encourages flakery because the customer doesn't need to invest a lot. The most they'd invest is a prepaid subscription of some sort. I'm not sure any one company's line is enough to give a fullish picture of what's possible with digital audio nowadays. Maybe the people who spend less than $50 on subscribing would've bought nothing if that option didn't exist? Or maybe 50% of subscribers would've bought at least one $100+ plugin before flaking out?

The solution for me is just to limit purchases and only buy things that make a huge change. The more my inventory increases, the higher the threshold gets. Novatron meets that threshold, it's that good. Due to the cost though, I'll end up passing on a lot of other stuff that's similarly priced. I would've gotten in on that Waves $29 sale this year bigtime if I hadn't already bought what I wanted from them. Then there's the whole WUP thing that makes me want to ditch their plugins altogether. We also have to look at plugin price relative to other things one needs for a DAW. A Ryzen 1600 is $199 and can even handle biggish 96k sessions with lots of plugins spread throughout all the tracks. I'd encourage everyone to try this out because it's living up to the hype.

I've left a lot of comments at the other place. Still think it's top notch. Tried it against Presswerk, Arouser, Disto, Deflector, MJUC, FG-Stress, Black Box and it just slays all of them. I mean, not even close. Ease of use and cpu optimization are top notch. Sound is beyond what I thought possible with plugins. Novatron just gets better the more I use it. If you slap it on every track it gives a ton of cohesion and can get the dynamics close to an ideal when partnered with the right plugins. Kush has always made great sounding stuff, it's just that the cpu hits were huge. Greg has since figured out how to drastically reduce cpu consumption without sacrificing quality. The subscription is like $10 a month or $100 a year and definitely worthwhile. I may sign up until Novatron goes on sale. Unless he starts releasing a lot. I think with other companies the releases haven't been very frequent. Maybe like 2-3 plugins a year.

It shocks me sometimes to see how many threads get passed over by most here at RGO ... I figured this would be a huge discussion considering the sound and capabilities. Can’t wait to put this puppy Thru it’s paces 🤠🤘
jcoutu1 have you seen this plug by Kush?

schmalzy

Thanks for the informative post man! Got me even more interested mane 🤠

They're the tit's .......

So why lead with the asshole comment? Just to be an asshole?

No I think you did a much better job with being an asshole with your post!

This Plug is awesome and I thought the thread would be more popular, also lots of other threads I think would be more popular aren’t and that’s exactly what I meant.. Stop reading into and misinterpreting what I write.

I take a break from here and come back to this as the first thing.. being called an asshole smh wow

I've started not using compressors a lot of the time now. A lot of the time compressors bring up spitty and hissy sounds too much, even on gentler settings. Then there's that thing Greg talked about in the official Novatron thread about digital peak energy vs analog. So I've tried to go simpler with just the default settings on Bx_Console N. Using Aroma, Phoenix, or Tapedesk followed by Dopamine seemed to do just fine. I've also been trying to minimize eq moves. On the master, just another BX, tape, and Lindell 354. Novatron is still my favorite compressor by far. Maybe it'll go onsale this month. I've found that Tapedesk set to SSL is far more impressive than Phoenix, Aroma, or RA paired with Dopamine. These tape plugs seem to need the Dolby action from Dopamine to really sound their best.

The Clariphonic can help sometimes, but it's also edgy. I didn't buy the update because I felt $50 was too much for an update. I think it should be $20 or less. The development and advertising costs have been accounted for already, an upgrade is an upgrade, not a new plug-in, despite the sales pitch. There are so many choices these days, I think plug-in value needs reexamination. I'm referring to many companies, to just Kush.