The Arturia Comp FET-26 might be the best-recreated software plug-in from the original and iconic 1176 studio compressor. This plug-in is the perfect tool for vocals and instruments delivering industry-standard production quality and flexibility. The original compressor was designed by Bill Putnam and has been now modelled to perfection by Arturia’s amazing technology TAE. Thanks to this, you can now enjoy this legendary tone-shaping software in your favourite DAW. The original hardware compressor has been used in several of the best recording studios in countless records from MJ, Guns n Roses, The Killers, Bruce Springsteen and much more.
Arturia’s engineers carefully studied and analyzed every component in the original hardware device to recreate it as software. The original hardware has a combination of features that make its compression on vocals and instruments so particularly special. The field-effect transistor and the Class A amplifier gives it a subtle and desirable tonal change at very low compression levels. when you crank it up FET comes alive. Arturia didn’t only just recreate a look or sound alike software they truly created a modern compressor that modelled the past and has updated features to form a legendary sound.
With its modern features the Comp FET-76 you can now get the crank effect but with a compressed steady volume, thanks to its link button to keep volume levelled. With an advance sidechain control in combination with legendary FET compression you get awesome sound, no doubt about it. Another great modern feature that was added by Arturia is the Time Warp feature to take advantage and get creative with the placement of the compression envelope that becomes a wonderful feature for experimental music producers and sound designers.
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