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[ 56 ] the Unnatural position
the Unnatural position
As mentioned before in the VCA and in the EG sections the so called unnatural position can be obtained with a
zero level input (or a totally closed LP Cutoff) and a VCA position at full extra gain (CONTINUO po straight
max EG level and note ON or inverted max EG level without key pressed).
In this position you can hear a very raised up noise floor: it is almost like hearing the direct electron flowing or
something. Is a very splatter lump of tones, like a rumbling stressed unsatisfied earthquake, like a microscopic
explorer that hear a woman in labor internal organs. Something wet and dark and suffocating.
This is the consequence of the crazy extreme amplifications on the VCA ICs obtained by overbiasing the control
pin of the integrated circuits. It is not so dangerous but maybe also not so useful, musically speaking. We leave
it there only as a “side effect” of a strongly-wanted huge dynamic range, with all the expressive and tonal
possibilities related. And obviously is a side effect of our brutal death metal musical childhood. Face it.
In this situation the Master Cƒ hand-control can suffers by some scratching noise during fast manipulations.
At normal line level those schratches are not perceptible at all and are not an audio defect but simply a not
perceivable operating characteristic that all analog machine that use carbon potentiometers have. Strange
behaviors instead can be noticed when in Unnatural Position because if you put the VCA level at this very high
settings something wrong just must happen. Simply you shouldn't use this position. Again, this is the very dark
side of the machine, leaved here to achieve extreme dynamics, and some bloody unexplored place where to
pass the cold night crying alone, shivering, unheard.