Solid State Sound, Solid Software Emulation!

Many "modeled" compressors are nothing more than 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. But anyone who has worked with hardware compressors knows that there must be more to it. And there is.

The heritage of analog compressors very much showcases the history of electronics in the previous century. It's the deficiencies of the different designs and components that give each unit its unique character, and what started out as technical limitations have now become sought-after sounds. Simply approximating the most apparent features is not enough to capture this uniqueness. It takes a model of great complexity and accuracy to make a digital replica sound like the original with all settings and inputs.

When creating FET Compressor, Softube set out to make the most accurate emulation of the most famous solid state compressor. Instead of modeling individual features and putting them together digitally we have modeled the unit in its entirety: input and output stages, gain reduction feedback loops, bias differences of different transistors, etc.

The Softube team discovered early on that the human ear ignores many of the fine sonic details found in traditional models, and instead zeroes in on the crazy stuff, which the ear finds pleasing. In musicianspeak, it’s why so much of the coolest gear has tubes. So modeling the non-linearities of tubes, speakers, spring reverbs, power amps, and the like, was the natural musical path to follow. The end result of those studies was a significant body of proprietary, patented technology, and the subsequent formation of Softube. Since its founding in 2003, the Softube team has worked behind the scenes developing products for a number of highly-respected companies. Now they’re delivering a series of high-end, high-quality plug-ins under the Softube brand.

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