OK Phat C is a 'Swiss-army knife' of a compressor that allows you to fundamentally change a compressor's sonic footprint by the amount and type of saturation present--the major sonic difference between hardware compressors. Phat C's input stage has six saturation models that recreate vintage harmonics and soft clipping of: a VCA-based (voltage controlled amplifier) compressor, an opto unit such as an Teletronix LA-2A, an FET-base compressor like the UA 1176LN, and then the sound of a transformer saturating, tape saturation caused by needle-pinning record levels, and saturated, overdriven tube amplifiers.

Using Phat C on everything from bass guitars, to electrical guitars and vocals is a blast. I like the Wet/Dry controls of the compressor--it is the only way to accurate judge compression amount and sound when Make Up gain is nominally set back to unity gain. Phat C also adds a Wet/Dry slider for the Saturation and again, it's the best way to honestly tell if you're actually working towards a great compressor sound or not.

You get selectable ratios of 1.2:1 and 1:5.1 and then normal knee 2:1, 3:1, 4:1, 6:1, 8:1, 10:1 ratios with both a Fast and Normal attack time setting and adjustable release times from 50ms to 3 seconds. I like using it on drum tracks and then toggling through saturation modes--VCA, the cleanest through Tube by far the filthiest--you can get any sound you like here folks.