Kaya - Dark, Swampy DistortionThere's only one Kaya literally. S. Husky Hoskulds made it by taking an old Ampex tube tape deck and hardwiring the preamp directly to the tape head. He calls his unit 'Pa', a minimal box with swampy distortion and a very heavy bottom. I started with Pa's dirt, then added controls to make it more flexible. An assymetric Treble control can rebalance the sound towards the top, or tilt it down into murky darkness. An Abuse knob does exactly what you'd

accurate metering for precision adjustments

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 novel as they were useful

632 is the one to get

then added controls to make it more flexible

An Abuse knob does exactly what you'd expect it to do

the Transformer plugins give you those colors in spades

each voiced to suit the types of transients it’s likely to be presented with

Whatever your vision

In particular

Kush can finally say without exaggeration 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

and guitars to ’sit’ in the mix with less processing and fuss