fedDSP has announced a characterful compressor featuring two original designs created from the ground up, inspired by the feel and response of great hardware compressors without directly emulating one specific unit. FIERY includes advanced tools such as a source-aware upward compressor, bespoke saturation control, and variable HPF/LPF sidechain filtering.
FIERY is the result of my obsession with making plugin compression exciting, just like real hardware. But this is not your usual emulation of a classic unit. After 15 years of producing and mixing with outboard compression, you develop a pretty clear sense of what matters and what does not. You learn the difference between excess for its own sake, and a focused set of controls that actually delivers. You learn that great dynamics processing is not just about control. It is about the emotion created by movement and weight, the thing that makes a source feel alive.
FIERY was obsessively engineered and refined over a year of development and 15 years of listening, and we didn’t stop until it felt as good as real hardware. It’s not a copy of the usual names, it’s an original compressor and saturator designed to work across almost any source.
FIERY features
- Highly characterful compressor with fixed threshold and variable attack and release.
- CLASSIC and VINTAGE, offering two distinct compressor characters.
- Powerful DEPTH control for low-end excitement.
- Dual mono and stereo-linked operation, sidechain HPF and LPF, DC threshold, and parallel mix.
- Source-aware upward compressor for lifting low-level detail below the threshold.
- Bespoke saturation control and multiple bypassable transformer emulations.
- Extremely low CPU footprint for high instance counts across large sessions.
- fedDSP workflow features including offline licensing, keyboard shortcuts and perpetual free updates.
FIERY for Windows and macOS (VST3, AU and AAX) is available for the intro price of £50 GBP until June 4th, 2026 (regular £75 GBP).
More information: fedDSP
