Audio Damage Kombinat Dva Upgrade - Manual (Page 13)

The three knobs are level controls. DRY sets the level of the unchanged signal. 1/2 sets
the level of the octave-down signal, and 2/1 sets the level of the octave-up signal.
WAVY: WAVY is similar to the WARP engine. (The WARP engine was present in version 1.0 of
Kombinat, and hence is still present in version 2.0 for backwards compatibility.) Like
WARP, WAVY uses a sine wave to create a non-linear transfer function, although it is
applied in a different manner. There is a FREQ knob to control the frequency of the sine
wave, and hence the tone of the effect. WAVY also has an AMT knob to control the
intensity of the effect.
RECTIFY: RECTIFY mostly affects the negative half of the signal’s waveform, by either reducing
its amplitude or flipping it over to make it a positive signal. The SLOPE knob is the main
control for RECTIFY. If the SLOPE knob is rotated fully anti-clockwise, the input signal is
passed without change. As you rotate the knob towards the 12:00 position, the lower
half of the waveform is flattened out, distorting the signal. As you rotate the slope knob
further, the lower half of the waveform is increasingly reflected upwards.
The ROUND knob smoothes the transitional area where RECTIFY starts affecting the
negative half of the waveform. Turning up ROUND makes the transition smoother
(more rounded) and hence makes the distortion somewhat less buzzy.
TUBE CLIP: The TUBE CLIP engine applies asymmetric distortion to the signal in a manner
similar to vacuum-tube-based circuits. The DRIVE knob acts as an input gain control;
turning it up increases the signal level and hence how much the signal is distorted. The
BITE knob makes the distortion shape sharper, creating a brighter or harsher distortion
tone. The MIX knob blends the input signal and the distorted signal. As you rotate the
MIX knob clockwise you’ll hear less of the clean signal and more of the distorted signal.
NERD RAGE: Part distortion effect and part short delay, Nerd Rage grabs short pieces of the
input signal and plays them back in reverse.
NERD RAGE has three knobs. The THRESH knob, short for Threshold, is a sort of tuning
knob which controls how much of the signal is recorded for later playback. The DECAY
knob controls how rapidly the recorded signal fades out when being played back. The
GAIN knob is a level control; turning it clockwise makes Nerd Rage’s output louder.