Kush plugin sale this weekend

I only bought some of the transformer and tube plugs for 25 bucks but I never good an receipt for my taxes by them - that was it for me with Weed-Audio.
The plug ins are good, special the tube stuff is not bad.

They’ve explained on their podcast how they aren’t interested in dealing with doing tax forms for every country available. I get where they are coming from - but also see how it can be pretty annoying for others outside the US

Not good if they're avoiding tax requirements abroad, but they're above board in the US, right?

Whenever I try to ascertain the cost/benefit of plugs like these, I look at what I consider the gold standard.  In my case, the stock plugs in Logic.  I.e. for $200 not only did I get a fantastic DAW, but they just added to the list of included EQs (at no charge!). So when I look at the the Clariphonic, I can't help but think that $120 is a hell of a lot of money to spend for what amounts to a one or two trick pony.  Now on the other hand, their Novatron looks like a unique and versatile compressor.  Logic comes with 5 pretty good ones, and I've got at least that many more aftermarket compressor plugs, but none of them do anything like what the Novatron seems to do. schmalzy I'm a mostly acoustic kind of guy. I.e piano - guitar - vocals - drums. Do you use it on these or do your find yourself using it more on synths?

I'm not using it a lot on vocals. That's not to say it wouldn't do well there but I'm typically hitting vocals a couple ways and I'm often getting it elsewhere. Often Console1's default SSL compressor and, interestingly enough, from Kush's UBK-1 or from Sly Fi's Deflector.

Great on piano. I like the way it handles the attack and I can blend two different types of saturation (the input and output saturations have different flavors) to push it forward if I need to.

Acoustic guitar? I use it when I need something to hold something in place. I liked it various attack times and medium slow to slow release. I'll often hit acoustics with something(s) to handle the transient (limiter, clipper, transient designer) before it goes to Novatron. Novatron reacts in a way that feels similar to a hardware compressor. If the transients are big and spikey, Novatron can react to those in a way I'm not super fond of. Control the transients before it and things start to feel a lot better for me.

Clean electric guitars? I like it a lot. It does a good job lengthening them. I don't often use it, though because I've already got Console1 on the channel and the compressor in it does well enough there.

Distorted guitars? Not a strong opinion on. I'm often using a limiter on metal stuff to help 'em stay in your face or I'm not compressing at all (a little multi-band to control the 100-300 here and there). I'm sure it would do fine on other flavors of distorted guitar but I'm often not compressing them.

Synths? Much of the time. Even if I'm just looking for some saturation flavors. Often slow attack to help the synths poke through then a medium release to hold 'em in place. Similar usage for stuff like horns.

Not using it on bass very often. I'm sure I could but I just haven't been. On the bass bus I use ReaComp (one of Reaper's stock plugins) if I need fast and the Console1's SSL compressor if I don't need fast. I'm often splitting my bass into a couple bands and compressing the parts of the frequency range that need it before going to the bus.

Love it on drums. I'm using my Console1 SSL compressor on the shells now but it was on a lot of my drum shells before. It's always on my drum bus. A little output saturation feels like it helps it hit harder, the attack grabs and controls or accentuates the transient really nicely (depending on settings, of course), the release curve feels good - I wish there was an auto release mode, though. Can be perfect for room mics.

It's also on my mix bus whenever I'm not going out to my Stam SA4000 hardware. Sometimes I'll stay ITB because I expect a pile of revisions and sometimes the Stam just isn't the right compressor.  I just used it for a live solo acoustic thing a guy sent me. Vocal and acoustic (the sound guy bused 'em to the same output...ugh...) and a pair of room mics. Some processing on each source then into a mostly Kush mastering chain: Hammer, Omega 458a, and Novatron on the master bus (plus a dynamic EQ  and some volume-increasing stuff) and it turned out really cool. Novatron was set to slowest attack and 600ms-ish release. Nice glue and control without being obvious or heavy-handed.

I use it a ton. It's processor heavy, though. Kush recently updated the plugin so you can turn the oversampling off/on for all the Novatron plugins in the session from a button on any of the Novatron plugin GUIs.

Tried Novation out on piano.  Unlinked the saturation modes in order to tweak it to a happy place. I think read somewhere that it pushes odd harmonics on the way in and even harmonics on the way out. Between that and the tone shift, it was dead simple to dial in color and move it forward to where l wanted it in the mix.  Purchased. schmalzy I can see why you wouldn't really use it for taming transients. This thing is a beast. Once you start playing with the saturation there's nothing subtle about it.

Nothing to complain about but I can already think of ways they could improve on it.  Mostly by offering swappable saturation modes and variable compression ratios and tone controls (I'm tempted to say that the dark and airy modes are a bit heavy-handed).