http://www.ckkelectronic.com/product/gears/gears.html The Gears from CKK is a vintage style compressor based on the OTA. It's goal is to give you sweet compression while retaining your instrument's original tone. The Blend helps achieve this by allowing you to mix the compressed signal your original signal. This along with the attack knob let's you dial in anything from a slightly compressed clean boost to full on country squish.