All of its distortions are controlled with the Input knob, which can be switched and blended to taste. SILIKA owes its killer sound to an extraordinarily complex harmonic distortion generator, but operationally it’s a relatively simple compressor with a familiar feature set. Think Led Zeppelin IV’s hazy grunge, and you’ll start to get the idea.
It may get too grindy, but it won’t hurt your ears. In particular, the high frequencies lay back and spread out without getting edgy, or bright, or even the least bit ‘zingy’. When you drive this plugin’s input, everything melts deliciously. It’s ‘Sonically Identical’ to the types of hardware it’s modeled after. SILIKA is not ‘close’, it’s not ‘different but just as good’.
One particular flavor of vintage compressors that clip beautifully, we have completely closed the Analog/Digital gap.
