The Mike-E from Empirical Labs is a modern digitally controlled Microphone Preamplifier chocked with unusual features to warm and soften the source, along with an excellent compressor/limiter. Mike-E offers an incredible performance transformer-coupled mic preamp, whose noise floor is far below any microphones self noise. The one-of-a-kind CompSat section is an uncompromising compressor and saturator circuit that offers versatile coloring, and classic knee compression.