FIERY

FIERY is a modern compressor and saturator designed to add energy, punch and musical colour while staying easy on the CPU.

MAIN INTERFACE

• IN/OUT, set the input and output levels.
• ATTACK & RELEASE, let you fine tune the attack and release of the compressor. Attack goes from a lighting fast 0.05ms to 10ms, whilst release goes from a quicker-than-life 10ms to 250ms.
• RATIO, this is a variable slider that lets you go from 3:1 to 50:1, plus an additional “ALL” buttons in mode that you can find at the end of the slider (after 50:1). ALL mode makes the compressor “overthink” and oversaturate.
• DRIVE, an internal fet-style processing adds tasteful saturation and edge. Good for drums, parallel bus, guitars and bass.
• DETAIL, this is a carefully fine tuned upward compression control, that allows you to bring up in volume low level details. It’s active when the signal doesn’t exceed the threshold.
• DEPTH, subtle or not-so-subtle low end enlarger. It’s a combination of EQ and very kind saturation that enlarges (or thins out) the low end. Very powerful.

ADVANCED PANEL

• CLASSIC / VINTAGE, fast, exciting gain reduction with two working styles. The CLASSIC mode is the representation of the plugin the way we’ve envisioned. The VINTAGE mode changes the dynamic response, adds extra warmth and fine tunes the tone-shaping behavior and compression style to get closer to what an old unit would sound like.
• MONO / DUAL MONO / STEREO, behaves based on the track format. Mono instance: the MONO button is shown but it’s disabled. Stereo instance (2 channels): in DUAL MONO left and right channels are processed independently. In STEREO both channels are linked and the limiter will apply the same gain reduction, helping keep the stereo image stable.
• LIMITER MODE (OFF / SAFE / AGGRO), controls the final output limiter, designed to prevent clipping at the end of the chain with a fixed final ceiling of -0.003 dB. Use SAFE for cleaner, more transparent peak control, or AGGRO for faster, more assertive limiting.
• SIDECHAIN HPF / LPF, let you sculpt the signal before it reaches the detector. Use the SC HPF to stop low end from overtriggering the compression and SC LPF to reduce sensitivity to harsh highs.
• TRAFO IN, gentle tube/trafotype colouring (subtle harmonic texture). This is processed BEFORE the compression stage.
• TRAFO OUT, mid & air shaping (adds presence and character). This is processed AFTER the compression stage.
• DC, lets you control the exact shape of the release. Not the time (that’s dictated by the release) but the shape and aggressiveness or smoothness of the compressor’s release.
• MIX, global wet/dry blend for instant parallel processing. Push FIERY harder than you normally would, then blend the chain back until the colour, movement and density sit exactly where you want them.

SIGNAL FLOW

Input → TRAFO IN → SC HPF/LPF → CLASSIC / VINTAGE mode → main compressor + upward compression (in parallel) → DEPTH → DRIVE → DC Threshold / release shaping → TRAFO OUT → parallel Mix → final limiter → Output

FIERY shapes the compression first, adds weight and character around it, then blend and controls the result so the source stays punchy, alive, and exactly where it needs to sit.