STOP sweeping the EQ, train your EARS to KNOW frequencies! 

oof. I can't drill it down to 1, but I can list my desert-island tools from each category, in no particular order, and why: Novatron: perfect balance of insane versatility with incredibly fast and easy setup. There's nothing it can't compress and you can explore dozens of colors extremely quickly, hard to make it sound bad. Axis EQ (technically from Sly-Fi but Kush now distributes it). API muscle but way more flexible, and a really sweet colorful tone. Has variable input Sat that should be its own plugin. Bass, drums, guitars, vox, it owns all of them. Omega A: if you work with electric guitars, this will make all of them sound better, more real, more dimensional. Not sure why, it just always works on them. Omega TWK: nails the dirt of the Tweaker hardware, this is the absolute smoothest vintage clipper out there. Softens and rounds out digital transients at low settings, has a killer crunchy grind if driven hard. Amazing pre-compression treatment on anything with a transient. 💪🏽 If you ask the typical Kush user, they'd add Omega 458a to that list, it's the distortion section from the AR-1 comp.

@@TheHouseofKushTV Wow, thanks brother. I'm surprised the UBK-1 didn't make your list. I'll have to give some demos a run in a session.

As a heavy Kush plugins user I couldn't pick one. Novatron, AR-1 and Omegas get a lot of use on every mix.

i find myself using Omega A and N on guitars a LOT.

SoundGym?

I agree! This is really great!

Most accurate description ever

Exactly. I think this is the perfect description. *THOK* always has a calm demeanor.

Innit. I have ADHD and I swear his voice is making me concentrating more just by relaxing me.

sadhu! sadhu! mixing buddha

LMFAO. It's true!

:)

whatch your "back" lol

Tell me before... you know.. Swallowing is better. Ok

Dude I'm hooked 😳

Exactly! He’s like a life guru teaching inner peace through audio! 😆

Exactly

Art and life walk hand in hand

Same thing with language, history, and math. beautiful observation!!

Exactly this!

great way of putting it thanks a lot

Yes! Also I think we met at a party a few years back, which is a very weird realization when scrolling through RU-vid comments...

I love the analogy, thanks for sharing!

you had a great teacher. This is super important on that instrument.

That's the plan, thanks for the support!

I love a good mnemonic!

Thanks!

I mean, what you're describing isn't really limited to "eq'ing" 🤜🏽😛🤛🏼

Did the “professionals” say it was “just because”?

I mean, sweeping and cutting is great for finding annoying frequencies, but you quickly lose the body of the sound if you just cut it because it sounds gross when you turn it up. It should be an offending frequency to begin with before trying to cut. Sweeping just allows you to pin point it when it's not obvious.

Likewise, it's nice that I can babble on and people seem to get something out of it 😊

Thanks! It really is a shockingly lovely and respectful group of people hanging out here, I think that's pretty special and shouldn't be taken for granted!

Cool idea. I’d guess that pink noise would be even better for this.

Totally agreed. This kinda fear still holds me back in singing, even when I'm alone I'm afraid to hit the wrong pitch, crack, or just plain sound bad. It's probably my biggest artistic fear, actually. Hmmm, I wonder what kinda exercise I would create for people in that boat. Shit, thanks for sharing this thought, something is percolating in the back of my brain! 🤜🏽🤛🏼

House of Kush: this helped me, it might help you with your singing fear. John Coltrane was once asked something like “you play all kinds of notes; how do you avoid playing the wrong note?” To which he replied - there’s no such thing as a wrong note - it’s The next note that’s wrong. In another place he phrased it more like “it’s the notes resolution that can be wrong”. I have heard miles Davis say the same thing. One experiment I made up and I urge you to try/ listen to any song in the radio and then, while listening to that song, sing another (different ) song on top of it. Start with a simple singing song, perhaps a nursery rhyme or something. The only rule.: you cannot change the melody, only the timing of when you sing any given note. I am Confodent you will see there is no such thing as a wrong note, only when it’a Played. Let me know if you do try this and how it went. For me, this lesson helped me be a little braver with experimenting with phrasing and it worrying....

Thanks for the kind words and the considered advice 😊 I'm not actually afraid of 'wrong notes', my fear is 'wrong pitch', as in, 'flat'. I'm constantly singing quarter tones, non-existent notes, and am consistently 10-30 cents flat. I can hear it clearly on playback, but not when singing. For reasons I have yet to understand, I have trouble hearing 'reality' and instead seem to hear a distorted version of it, one which sounds great when I'm singing and seriously out of tune on playback. I'm overcoming a similar issue with my drumming thru relentess practice and targeted exercises with a metronome. I'm not aware of a similar tool for practicing singing, but it won't stop me from working on it (and my singing!). But I do appreciate the encouragement!

Ha! Not to take away from your suggestion, but this vid was filmed a couple months ago, when I did the eps on 'mixing fast' and 'small moves'. Time is not what it seems in the world of content production! 😛

I was getting picked on by Jennifer Shannon, the class tomgirl who had a massive crush on me.

Thanks, yeah, part of me misses the goofyness and entertainment factor of the other types of intros I've played with, but this one really does have some kinda messaging mojo, it really drives home the heart of the concepts I'm trying to share.

Right on, thanks for the show of faith! No snow here, only booger sugar, and it'll cost you some heavy bread 🥖🕺

Or... "The Course Whisperer".

@@brynburrows1053 the whisker mixerer

@@MrPMOSullivan Hahaha.

Happy to help!

You're very welcome!

That's awesome to hear man, truly!