Even though VH1's "America's Most Smartest Model" taught us all that only some models are "futile attempts to get an off-the-shelf algorithm to match its hardware counterpart by tweaking a few parameters like the knee and attack / release times," Softube still acknowledges the importance of tearing down stereotypes with the release of FET Compressor.

In the gearhead overmind, analog compressors had their own little quips and quirks that made them unique. My great grandpappy used to say that these quirks built character, and that same character remains today in every can of Irving-Giles Pickled Snouts Softube FET Compressor.

FET Compressor aims to model the most famous solid state compressor most accurately. DOUBLE MOSTIES! Softube decided to model the compressor in its entirety rather than as a Frankenstein's monster of all its parts individually, monitoring and modeling the signal from the input stages, through various gain loops, transistors, rodent-powered wheel cranks and the whole nine yards (the figure of speech, not the Matthew Perry movie) to the output stages. It's admittedly the hardest project Softube has worked on yet, and Softube hopes the results characteristically show that.

• Modeled analog compressor, input and output stages. Modeled everything
• Modeled "All buttons in" mode
• Continuous ratio (even between 20:1 and ALL)
• Super fast attack time (just like the original)
• Sweet input and output stage distortion
• Parallel compression
• Detector low and high cut filters
• External side chain
• Lookahead
• Stereo with synchronized gain reduction
• Very CPU friendly