Audio Damage Mangleverb - Manual (Page 12)

envelope follower respond to the snare and high hats more than the kick drum. This knob has no effect on the
MIDI and LFO modes of the envelope follower.
The envelope follower has a display similar to the LFO to show you what it’s doing and what effect the various
controls have on its operation.
Master
The Master section has controls for setting the levels of various signals as they
pass into, through, and out of the plug in. The INPUT knob is a gain control for
the input signal. It has a range of -40dB to +6dB and hence can provide a fair
amount of attenuation to a modest amount of boost.
The FEEDBCK knob is somewhat more interesting. If you turn this knob up, an
increasing amount of the plug-in’s processed output signal is fed back into its
input, mixed with the usual input signal. As you’re probably already well aware,
feedback in music production can be a good thing or a bad thing
2 . In
Mangleverb, feedback can add subtle effects like unusual resonances to the
reverb’s sound, or not-at-all subtle wailing noises. If you turn the FEEDBCK
knob up far enough, Mangleverb will cheerfully break into self-oscillation
without any input at all. Yes, this means you should be careful about your
monitoring levels when you mess with this knob. You may not find that you use
this knob all the time, but it’s worth giving it a try now and then just to see
what happens.
We’ve mentioned the VCA a few times previously; we finally find some controls for it here in the Master
section. The VCA changes the level of the signal after it comes out of the filter. After it passes through the
VCA, the signal either continues on to the reverb, or it heads out of the plug-in, depending on the setting of
the PRE/POST switch in the Reverb section. The VCA knob sets the initial gain of the VCA. If you turn it all the
way to the left, the VCA has a gain of -50dB, which is to say that not much will get through it. If you turn it all
the way to the right, the VCA has unity gain and signals pass through it unchanged.
2 For example: if you’re singing the national anthem in front of a large audience, feedback is a bad thing. If you’re playing
the national anthem on an electric guitar in front of a large audience, feedback is a good thing.