Audio Damage Kombinat Dva Upgrade - Manual (Page 15)

Compressor
The compressor in Kombinat only has one control, AMOUNT. Thus, it is fairly obvious how to use it. If you
want more of the compression effect, simply move the slider to the right. This will have the effect of evening
out the signal coming out of the filter, so that the parts of the signal that would be low in volume are much
more apparent, and nearly as loud as the loudest parts of the signal. This will also add a couple dB of level to
the overall signal, and make it a bit more "knocky." As with the filter, when you send the compressor
extremely high-level signals, it begins to operate in an unpredictable manner, and will add distortion to the
signal.
For the technically inclined, the compressor is always on, the attack is always 5ms, the release is always
50ms, and the ratio is always 1000:1. At the left-most setting, the
threshold is 0dB. When the knob is completely clockwise, the threshold
is -30dB, and the input and output gains are raised to compensate.
Feedback
Kombinat has an internal feedback path that can route its output signal back into the input, mixing it with the
usual incoming signal. This can intensify Kombinat’s distortion and create ringing oscillations and other
unpredictable effects. It’s a somewhat experimental feature; while you might not find it useful all the time, it’s
worth trying now and then just to see what happens.
The AMOUNT slider changes the amount of the output that gets fed
back; moving the slider to the right increases this amount. At the far
left setting, there is no feedback.
The feedback path is also controlled by an envelope follower that
responds to the level of the plug-in’s input signal (before the
feedback signal is added). This envelope follower reduces the gain of
the feedback path when the input signal is small, reducing Kombinat’s
tendency to oscillate continuously at high settings of the AMOUNT slider. The envelope follower has two
numerical controls which adjust how rapidly it responds to changes in the input signal. The ATTACK control
changes how quickly it increases the feedback signal as the input signal increases, and the DECAY control sets
how quickly it responds as the input signal decreases. Click and drag vertically on the numerical controls to
change their values. The controls respond to where you click them, and will change by whichever digit you
click on when you start dragging.