Dr Strangelove User Manual 11-2017
Set up
The audio in will take most line sources. So you can directly connect synths, drum machines, and
eurorack, for example.
A good way to link up is to connect it to the auxiliary effects buss of your mixing desk.
Or, of course, to the I/O of your DAW digital audio interface - if you wish to process some audio
files.
Audio Connections
You'd normally use the 1/4” jack sockets on the rear panel. But you may find it easier to use the
top panel 3.5mm jacks if connecting to eurorack or other modular synths.
AUDIO IN LEVEL
This control attenuates the input signal level.
Ring Mod
The Ring Mod itself doesn't have any controls as such, since really a ring mod doesn't have
parameters that can be altered, other than input and output levels. You just plug in your audio
cables and it does its thing!
So it doesn't need or have controls. Ring Mods are very versatile analogue effects, and react very
differently with a wide variety of sound, depending on the audio sources you use and their levels.
Ring Mods need two audio sources, or in the case of Dr. Strangelove, one of the sources, the
modulation input, can be audio or a low frequency signal (from say an LFO).
The two signals a Ring Mod needs are :
Carrier - this is the main signal that you want to process.
Modulator - this is the signal that will modulate the Carrier.
CARRIER
The Carrier input sockets is where you will feed in the audio signal you wish to process. For
example a drum machine, or the signal coming from your mixer’s aux buss.
MODULATOR
If you do not put a jack plug into the rear panel MOD IN socket, then the ring mod will take its
modulation signal from the internal analogue LFO.
The MOD IN 1/4” jack socket is switched, so plugging a lead in here will disconnect the internal
LFO.
