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The FATSO Family
sounds bad: it may be too much compression for some, but it is never bad compression.” You may be initially surprised, as I was, that the UBK FATSO is very grabby. Hitting10 dB of reduction and beyond is
The Kush Audio UBK Edition FATSO
Some time prior to the plug-in release, audio engineer Gregory Scott of Kush Audio, otherwise known by his online handle “UBK”, decided, “Wouldn’t it be great if the FATSO could do these other things...?”, and with Dave’s blessing he created the UBK edition FATSO. What’s different? First is the look. The UBK edition features a sexy coffee brown faceplate. All the buttons and knobs remain the same, but some of their names and functions have changed. The output meter now reads Comfy and Roast instead of 0 VU and Pinned. Tranny is now known also known as Trafo. Internally, the most significant change is the compressor section with both new names and functions. Gone are all of the originals (except Spank) and in their
place are: Splat, a unique and proprietary attack/knee and a medium release that UBK calls “soupy”; Smooth, a transparent 70 microsecond attack brick wall limiter with a super fast release; Glue, a thicker gooier compressor suited for bass and for the 2-bus; and Squish, a mix of Splat and Spank that is fat and old school. The UBK Edition’s Warmth sounds more aggressive due (Dave Derr believes) to its different reaction to the UBK compressors. A compressor for everyone So while the FATSO’s paradigm of added warmth and harmonic saturation remains, the UBK version’s compressors are much more instrument-friendly than bus-centric, although it does big things there as well. According to UBK, his goal was to create a “compressor that never
not the exception, it’s the norm! Strangely though, it doesn’t sound as pumped or over-squashed as the meters may lead you to believe. It fares really well on delicate acoustic instruments, just as much as on heavy drums and electric guitar. Since it still is a FATSO at heart, you still get the harmonic saturation, warmth and transformer choices, again making it unlike any other compressor on the market. Bottom line, the UBK Edition is a monster compression device that can squash the daylight out of the sky, but the thick clouds of compression it creates are still fluffy and beautiful, not dark, dreary or smoggy.
So Which One Is Right For Me?
Everyone’s asking that, and it’s not an easy question to answer. In oversimplified terms, you could boil it down to:
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Contents
Talkback
Fast Forward
Phonic S16 Digital Mixer
Lift Your Voice
Chameleon Labs TS-1 MKII Mic
Melodyne In Action
Roland OCTA-CAPTURE
Comparing Auto-Tune and Melodyne editor: A Producer’s Perspective
Samson Meteor Mic
The FATSO Family
Reviewed and Revisited: Antares Auto-Tune 7
Readers’ Tapes
Lauten FC-357 Clarion Mic
It’s Your Music—Know Your Rights. Chapter 14: The Role Of The Producer —Part 2
Game Audio—Your Next Career Move?
sE Electronics Voodoo VR1 Ribbon Mic
Recording’s Bass Column
Advertiser Index
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