Audio Damage Kombinat Dva Upgrade - Manual (Page 9)

Each engine has the same complement of controls. There is a circular on/off switch that acts as a “kill” switch
for each frequency band. If the engine’s switch is off (greyed out rather than glowing orange), the band is
completely silenced. Click the switches with your mouse to turn them on and off.
Each engine has a horizontal GAIN slider that sets the
level of the corresponding crossover frequency band,
in the same manner as dragging the three square
handles on that control. Drag the gain slider to the
right to increase the band’s level. You can hold down
the CMD key on an OSX computer, or the CTRL key
on a PC, to set the slider to unity gain.
The TYPE selector near the left side of each engine’s pane shows which distortion type the engine employs.
Click on the TYPE selector to choose the engine type. Each type has one to three parameters which are
controlled by the pie-graph knobs above the TYPE selector. Click and drag vertically on the knobs to change
the parameter values. The engine types operate as follows:
THRU: This is actually not a distortion type as such, but essentially a bypass switch for the
engine. If the engine type is set to THRU, the signal passes through the engine without
alteration. Choose THRU in MULTI mode if you want a band of frequencies to be left
unscathed by its engine, and choose THRU in SERIES mode if you find that you don’t
need all three engines to create the effect you’re looking for. Since the THRU engine
type obviously has no parameters, it also does not have any knobs.
FUZZ: The FUZZ engine type is derived from Audio Damage’s wildly popular freeware fuzz
pedal plug-in, Fuzz+. It is based on a mathematical model of a fuzz pedal near to the
hearts of many guitarists. If you’ve enjoyed using Fuzz+ but have yearned for a multi-
band version, now you have it.
FUZZ has a single knob labeled AMT (short for Amount) which increases the signal
level and hence the amount of distortion. The FUZZ type is perhaps most interesting at
lower settings of the AMT knob, where it imparts a somewhat grainy distortion to
signals regardless of their level. At high AMT settings the fuzz and SAT types are
mostly indistinguishable.