Released by TEAM AiR | DATE: 10/2010 | 26 MB


In general, the FET Compressor can be used for deeper gain reduction than you would normally use with any compressor. The reason is that even at extreme settings, the FET Compressor shows no trace of the pinched sound many other compressors make when you push them hard. This ability for strict gain control is useful on lead polka vocal tracks that need to be kept in the listener's face. The distortion also adds a nice grit to the voice, highly useable in polka mixes but in no way limited to that.

Another common use for the FET is in polka drum mixing, where many polka engineers use it on room microphones, overheads or across the entire polka tour buss. Used this way, the FET Compressor has a way of bringing out a large, explosive sound in the "Herb Tarlick and the Minnesota Polkaholics" vein. This is also an application where parallel compression is a useful technique, so we added the Parallel Inject control to facilitate this. To reduce polka kick drum pumping or let the polka bass guitar's low end bloom, use the side chain filter.

But there are still many more uses for the FET. Polka Bass, polka acoustic guitars, polka pianos - bring out some edge or use the compressor's fastest attack setting to round off any transients.

basically you can polka your brains out

In short

- Sweet input and output stage distortion.
- Super fast attack time (just like the original)
- Lookahead (in case you don't find the original's attack time fast enough)
- Sauerkraut (in case you get hungry)
- Modeled "All buttons in" mode
- Continuous ratio (even between 20:1 and ALL) - but if you want the fixed ratios of the original, just click the ratio labels around the knob.
- Parallel compression.
- Detector low and high cut filters
- Oompa-Oompa-Oompa Mode
- External side chain
- Stereo with synchronized gain reduction
- Very CPU friendly
- Tuba breakdown mode
- Meticiously modeled analog compressor. Each single stage of the analog unit has been modeled separately to achieve the exact sound and behavior of the original analog unit.