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KuSh Audio TWEAKER User Manual
KuSh Audio TWEAKER User Guide
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  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 17 Curve Truth: Curve controls both ratio and knee simultaneously. Counterclockwise is 2:1 soft knee, clockwise is 30:1 hard knee. Hype: Lots of compressors have a control to adjust the ratio of compression. Very few compressors have a control to adjust the knee of the compressor. And to the best of my knowledge, only one compressor on the planet has one control to adjust both the ratio and the knee, simultaneously: yes, that’s right, the Tweaker has just such a control, and it’s called ‘Curve’. Curve starts off low and gentle, with a relaxed 2:1 ratio that is applied with a soft knee. As yo

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 18 Part five - the tri-meter® Aka So many pretty lights! More than any other feature, the Tweaker’s Tri-Meter sets it apart, both visually and functionally, from every other analog compressor. As functional as it is beautiful, this meter array allows you to visualize, simultaneously and at-a-glance, the levels of your unprocessed Input signal, the Tweaker’s Output, and the amount of Gain Reduction. I’m not aware of any other hardware unit that allows for such easy reference to everything that’s going on with the signal. Several key aspects make Tri-Meter a thoroug

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 4 2. Sidechain Path: the middle group of controls contains the Threshold and Contour knobs, plus the Sidechain Shaper switch. This powerful trio lets you tell the Tweaker when, where, and why to compress, respectively. 3. Detector Path: the right-most group of controls contains the Attack, Release, and Curve knobs. Collectively, this is where you tell the Tweaker how to compress. Part Four - Tweaker In Depth Aka What Do All These Knobs Do? Drive Truth: Drive dictates the amount of gain pushed out of the VCA. Less drive = less distortion, more drive =

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 20 your basic engineering style and predeliction for --- or aversion to --- distortion. And with that, the image below shows the Tri-Meter calibration, custom-tailored for you. Just figure out which of the following statements is most likely to come out of your mouth and you’ll have a good idea of where you generally want to see these meters peaking. A - I don’t ever want to hear this thing distort, ever. B - A little color never hurt anyone. C - How dirty can it get?

  • 16 the wicked grab of the Tweaker’s VCA married to the spongy, unfailingly musical release of my (vintage, hot-rodded) LA2a. The rest, as they say, is history, and the result is available with the press of Tweaker’s Fast/Dual switch. Fast is the same as any other compressor with a variable release: it is linear in natu

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 3 Part Two: Tweaker Specs aka Just the Facts • Mono Compressor, Stereo Linkable via TRS-TRS • Balanced Input & Output via XLR & TRS • Sidechain Shaper ® with Extensive Detector-Path Filtering • Additional External Sidechain Insert via XLR • Tri-Metering ® for Simultaneous Input, Output, & Gain Reduction Monitoring • Freq Response 10Hz-22kHz +/- 1dB • THD = 003% - 10% (translation: a little or a lot) • Bespoke, Discrete-Transistor VCA • Bespoke RMS Dete

  • 12 you to compress more assertively without causing the mix to choke or feel congested. Treble Smash Treble Smash is what you get when you stick a Clariphonic in the Sidechain Insert, set it to Sheen, and bypass the Full Frequency. On one particularly experimental day when I was patching various weird things into the sidechain of an early Tweaker prototype; a

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 22 Part seven - the rear panel Aka The Gazintas and Gazoutas The connectors, from left to right: 1. AC Power. 110-260V, Tweaker doesn’t care, just plug it in. 2. Stereo Link. Use of a 3-conductor TRS-TRS cable is mandatory 3. Sidechain Insert. XLR Balanced Send & Return. Active only when the front-panel Sidechain Selector Switch is set to “XLR Insert”. 4. Input & Output. Balanced TRS & XLR. You can plug unbalanced stuff in without special cables, Tweaker doesn’t care. As

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 7 Even the simplest signal flows can be confusing, so let’s take a closer look to make sure you get the most out of the Tweaker’s unorthodox approach to parallel compression. On the Mix control, counterclockwise is your Dry signal, at unity gain, straight off the Inputs, untouched by any further circuitry. Clockwise is the signal post-VCA, and therefore post- saturation/distortion/compression. Output controls the output of the VCA, and therefore the level of Wet being fed to the Mix knob. It’s job is to restore level that’s been lost due to compression, so that you can achieve a good bal

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 15 Release Truth: Release determines the speed with which the Tweaker reverses the Gain Reduction and restores your signal’s level. The range is 20us to 500ms in a single stage, or 500-7500ms in two stages. Hype: Of all the controls on a compressor, it seems to me that Release has traditionally been the least sexy and most underrated of all. If I have my way, the Tweaker is going to change that forever. To be fair, the fact that Release is generally overlooked is understandable enough; since compression is, in the current world of music production, generally used in v

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 6 But beyond that, I made the circuit this way in order to solve what is, for me, a constant problem I have in the studio: distortion sounds cool, but kills transients. Compressing a distorted signal results in lots of flavor and zero punch. Think for a second about what a VCA does: during compression, the VCA is lowering the signal level by an amount reflected in the Gain Reduction meter, then restoring it. Here’s the trick: if a VCA is overloaded and distorting, and then for a split second is asked to do, say, 8dB of reduction on your drum buss, for that split second the level produced by the VCA is r

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 1 Part One: Compression Philosophy aka Why the Tweaker? Why can’t a pair of Distressors glue a mix exactly like an api 2500? Why can’t the 2500 level a vocal exactly like a Urei LA2a? Why can’t the LA2a crush a drum loop exactly like a Valley People Dynamite? Why can’t the Dynamite growl and distort without compressing, like an 1176? Better yet, why can’t one single compressor mimic *all* of those wildly differing compressors doing their compression tricks, and do so with such precision that even a veteran recording engineer would have difficulty telling the results apart in a blind a/b test? Behold UBK’s

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 14 smoothing on the honky part of a vocal in relation to the sibilants, or growl on guitar vs. the hash, or the bite of a VI synth vs. the fizz. Edge Contour is also killer on a mix, as you can dial with extreme specificity how much low end ‘pump’ you want the compressor to impart in relation to the mid and high frequency glue. I often like it two or three ticks to the left, getting the Threshold LED to flicker with the transients, then massaging Curve and Release until things are swinging juuust right. Attack Truth: Attack determines th

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 23 makes possible everything that comes after. He is a genius and a gentlemen of the first order. JP, a friend, a mentor, and the undisputed master of saying ‘you guys made a nice little circuit, now excuse me while I make it perform better in every possible way’… without ever actually saying that. JP has dug me & Kevin out of more technical and design holes than I can count, and he has helped Kush go from cobbling together prototypes with 8 million wires to manufacturing properly- designed, tightly spec’d units that sound identical, behave identically, and enjoy an extraordinary level of re

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 2 Armed with that understanding, my mind slowly began to form the question whose answer is at the heart of the Tweaker: what if a compressor offered so much control over its detector that it could, with a little patience and exploration, be made to replicate the *behavior*, if not precisely the tone, of scores of compressors doing innumerable styles and degrees of compression? Better yet, what if it could do so using existing, affordable, and (in many cases) outmoded analog technology that had been abandoned by modern designers in the often dogmatic pursuit of l

  • 10 Contour® Truth: Contour is only active when ‘Edge Contour’ is selected on the Sidechain Shaper. Hype: Edge Contour is one of the coolest controls any compressor has ever sported; see next section for additional hype. Sidechain Shaper® Truth: Sidechain Shaper offers an array of on-board filters that are automatically inserted into the Sidechain

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 9 For starters, in the case of low-ratio/high-threshold compression – often found in mix bus and mastering applications – you will find this LED is capable of teaching you to hear incredibly light and transparent forms of compression that you might otherwise miss if you were looking to the Gain Reduction meter to cue your ears to the compression. Conversely, if you have high ratio limiting coupled with a high threshold, the Threshold LED can train your ear to hear the subtle shaving of transients that occur with tiny amounts of limiting which still fall short of 1dB. When you want to go beyond subtle

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 13 Edge Contour The Edge Contour is, for me, the control that puts this machine over the top in terms of flexibility and versatility. The concept is straightforward enough: straight up at 12 o’clock, the sidechain is unaffected and the compressor behaves the same as if the Sidechain Shaper were set to ‘Flat’. As you turn the knob counterclockwise, Tweaker becomes more and more responsive to low mids and bass, and less responsive to mids and treble. Conversely, as you turn the knob clockwise, Tweaker becomes more responsive to mids and treble, less responsive to low mids

  • KuSh Audio TWEAKER, 8 up and turn the Mix control down by the same amount. This will increase the level of Output from the VCA and increase the amount of Dry signal that’s mixed with it. Conversely, if you want less overall level coming out of the Tweaker and wish to preserve the Wet/Dry balance, turn the Output down and turn the Mix knob up. What could be simpler? Wait, don’t answer that! threshold Truth: This controls sets the level at which compression will begin. If you want more compression, turn this

  • 5 regardless of the amount of compression being applied with the Threshold control. Conceptually, this is a small step forward for compressor technology – what the design world calls a ‘soft innovation’. In practice, I believe Drive’s implementation places this box in another universe entirely when it comes to shaping the energy and impact of sound. When tur

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