I feel like this topic has been discussed a little bit too much.
All this hype makes people believe that its this kind of magic tone machine. But I'd reach for anything but a Cl1B if I wanted to color a signal. Compared to any other comp, it is pretty clean and invisible.

Sure, that little bit of harmonic information that it adds is very wonderful, but its very subtle.

I totally get why they wouldn't add a saturation stage to a model of compressor thats supposed to be as clean as possible in a time where CPU usage was much more of a concern.

Anyway, I'm not here to defend the Cl1b plugin, I don't even own it, or liked it when I demoed it. I just think all this hype around the CL1b "tone" is a bit ridiculous. All the experienced Engineers I know that use one regularly use it mostly for practical reasons, and definitely not because they want to color a signal. There's better and more effective tools to do that.