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Recommendation - Kush Clariphonic
The "Is compression in post necessary on solo acoustic fingerstyle recordings" thread got me thinking about what I might find useful for that specific genre. I don't swim in that pool but I think the Kush Clariphonic would be a great pick for solo acoustic. I own both the hardware and the plugin. And while they're different, there both fantastic, imo. Kush lets you demo plugins and if any of you are feeling adventurous, I'd be curious to hear what you think of it.
Note: this isn't a compressor and that's why I didn't post this in the other thead mentioned above.
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Very interesting thanks for posting.
Can you tell us what is the difference between the plug in and the analog version? From the demo, it seems to open up the source....almost as if it is targeting the harmonics. And yes seemingly this could be killer on Guitar if it opens it up like that. What are your feelings about what this unit actually does? |
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The hardware unit is different in two respects...
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I tried to download the demo, but it doesn't show up in either Logic or Audition after installation. Not sure why... I don't typically use EQ like this, but I'm up for checking anything out.
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I have never really gotten into EQ, However, this sounds like it works differently.Got a Call from John Hardy today, My unit ships tomorrow! yahoo, Six months I have been waiting. |
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Congrats on the Hardy. Still no luck, I tried reinstalling, and it appears I'm getting a validation error. I assume it doesn't work on Catalina.
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I am out of town until Saturday but will try the demo on my system then
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After restarting my computer this morning, Logic now recognizes the plugin. Odd, a reboot isn't usually required for an AU plugin.
Anyway, with a very quick look, it's about what I expected from the description. Basically a 2-band high shelf EQ with overlapping ranges, and various tweaks to the slopes. The Focus control seems to be gentle lift starting fairly low (500 Hz), while Clarity is a steeper lift starting at around 2K. Lots of subtle changes depending on switch positions. And of course, you can affect each channel separately, or use it in MS mode to affect the sides vs the mid. The sound kind of reminds me of the Neve 1073, which also has the ability to add a somewhat distinctive sheen to the high end. The Kush seems more subtle than the 1073, tho. Certainly could be useful for acoustic guitar, tho I'm usually looking for warm, round tones and usually don't want that high end sparkle. The Clarifonic does a great job of accentuating clicks and squeaks, which I'm usually hoping to downplay :-) But just my taste. It seems especially useful for an acoustic rhythm track where you want a crisper sound, or for fingerstyle where more presence is needed.
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I did a little googling today and from an post on GearSpace(the new name for GearSlutz) from 2019 I found this reply: "It takes your input, splits it into two signals, one in phase and one out of phase, and then creates parallel versions of one of the signals for every single band on the front panel. Each band has its own set of high and low cut filters and op amp to isolate the signal to just that frequency range. Then after all your adjustments, it has a summing circuit where it sums all the bands back together into one signal and mixes it back in. Wow. It also explains why it's impossible to get a completely flat signal, even with every knob flat." |
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This was just from a Gearspace member who had done a lot of research on the unit. He actually had found the Patent for this and it is basically described as such(in a more technical way) under the "Detailed Description"https://patents.justia.com/patent/5805716 |
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I played with it a bit more tonight, just checking thru some of the presets. It seems like one of those effects that once you get used to it on, things sound duller when you turn it off. I ran a short clip thru a handful of different stock presets (many of which use pretty subtle settings). Curious what people hear?
Here's the examples in order (screen shots for settings below, in order): 1. Raw track, No Kush plugin 2. "Airy Widening" preset 3. "Acoustic Guitar Duality" preset 4. "Classic Mastering 1" preset 5. "Acoustic Guitar Mid-Focus" preset 6. "Acoustic Guitar Lift and Sheen"preset Airy Widening.jpg DUality.jpg Mastering1.jpg MidFocus.jpg SHeen2.jpg
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Interesting.
My one pass through listening. I can see what you are saying. Most of the results are brighter. My monitors tend to bring out some shrillness in many brighter EQs or presets, and so may not be the best to judge "airiness" vs "brittle." There also seemed to be some time dimension changes with the Clariphonic in many of those examples, like delays or changes in how the original track's ambience translated. For myself, for my own tastes, on my monitors, none of them were clearly better than the original track, though I'd give another listen to a couple if I was choosing for myself, particularly the first and last Clariphonic examples.
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I'm not an anti-preset guy but I found the Clariphonic so easy to dial in that I've never looked for presets. Then again, I haven't spent a lot of time with the plugin. I actually bought the hardware first as a B-stock but it arrived with a L-R output imbalance so I had to send it back to them for repair. They wound up sending me a new unit and they threw me the plugin as a little bonus. I thought most of the presets you used made the guitar sound too thin but I did like 4 and 6. Like any eq, if you push certain frequencies too hard, you can really wreck a track. My main use for this box is as a sweetener in the mastering process so any changes I make to the track are going to be subtle and very specific to the song I'm working on. Presets can work well on some things like individual voices but I don't think they're particularly useful for mastering, at least not in a global sense where you start with the same preset for every song.
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