UBK-2 - Movement and GrooveIn 2012, Kush dropped the UBK 1 into a world where nobody expected plugin compressors to have any kind of special or interesting vibe. Built on faithful models of the strange and aggressive curves Gregory Scott developed for the enigmatic UBK Fatso hardware, UBK 1 was the first plugin to give ITB mixers a movement and groove based tool that encouraged blind turning of a few knobs to quickly get at sounds and textures that tended to be as surprising

and many more to come

and very much a signature Sly-Fi sound

Kush has addressed this by using our most sensitive measuring equipment — UBK’s ears — to obsessively tune not just the speed

Whatever your vision

including the very gentle low-ratio Cream for delicate jobs like the mix buss

and level-match them with ease… Tri-Meter is a deceptively powerful workflow enhancement

and you’ll start to get the idea

For starters

turning cymbals from brass to gold

Novatron is an analog-modeled compressor that borrows so many sonic properties from so many different classing hardware units that

There's a reason the eq that inspired this plugin has endured 45 years of musical fashion & trends: it does all the right things to sound

NOTE: Upgrading to UBK-2 requires the surrender of your original UBK-1 License