Crafted with eight 6072 vacuum tubes. five solid-state power supplies, gold-plated XLR input and output connectors, and Class-A triodes, the D.W. Fearn VT-7 Stereo/Dual Mono Vacuum Tube Compressor delivers smooth and transparent compression while providing flexible controls. This compressor can be operated either in dual-mono, linked stereo, or linked with a 100 Hz high-pass filter in the side-chain detector. Particularly with the side-chain operation, this is helpful for allowing the compressor to not react on from instruments like bass and kick drums.
Attack, release, threshold, and gain controls allow you to set the timing of the compressor, the amount of compression, and makeup level. Unique to the VT-7 is a control to allow the compression to become softer or harder. More specifically, the compression ratio will be altered while being affected from all of the other controls. This allows for unique compression characteristics that are harder to achieve with traditional controls.