A user friendly WYSIWYG drag and drop display paired with a classic “knob” interface gives quick and smooth access to the various parameters driving NOVA’s powerful signal processing. Be it a master lacking density, the drum bus asking for more crispiness, or a sibilance problem in your perfect take: NOVA has an elegant answer. Appearing in the familiar layout of a parametric equalizer, the plugin also includes a full featured dynamics section enabling NOVA to cover an impressively wide range of applications. The resulting signal then gets passed to a compressor/limiter with 4 available ratios, standard Attack/Release/Threshold/Mix controls, and sidechain filtering options which, while simple, allow for a dramatic reshaping of the compressor’s behavior. 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.
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