

Arturia's Comp FET-76 also sounds amazing to my ears. I find that usually when I want what it does, something like the MJUC model 2 works better.Very interesting! After Slate Digital released their FG-116 I pretty much stopped using IK's version of it.so I'll have to give it a second look. I took a look at Electrum and made a demo.

FETpressor doesn't get much use these days it's the smoothest and subtlest of the bunch, almost to a fault. Thats what the folks at Muramasa and United Plugins have just released in their new amp sim called Electrum. Universal Audio 1176 Compressor Legacy Update (PC/Mac) This is the latest update of the UA 1176 Compressor Plugin for Legacy VS recorders (VS-1680/1880/1824CD).

VLA-FET is a bit more subtle, with a very "tactile" kind of quality. Of the other three, I like the Rocket best for extreme applications you can do some world-class envelope mangling with that one. I've never used a hardware 1176, but I did have the original UAD version for several years, and of the four native ones I mentioned I think the IK comes the closest to the UAD. Mac OS X (64-bit only): VST, VST3, AU, AAX. They're all good tools, all slightly different. Workhorse FET compressor/limiter renowned for its super-fast attack. While we’ve mostly covered individual compressors and their associated plugin emulations, the McDSP 6030 offers a whopping TEN compressors in one plugin and at an extremely reasonable price of 129. I have the IK Black 76, the Black Rooster VLA-FET, Stillwell's Rocket and PSP's FETpressor. The McDSP 6030 is the most unique feature-rich plugin in this entire article.
