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signal return - user guide
Signal Return is a performable kontakt instrument and soundset
designed to create a wide variety of interesting and textured sounds.
All of the source material comes from recordings of various devices
feeding back into themselves either electrically or acoustically.
Occasionally other effects like delays and pitch shifters are run inline with the looping signals to create even denser and more
complex textures. No software based speaker emulators or
distortions were used in the creation of these sounds.
lowpass cut
frequency
hipass cut
envelope controls
frequency
attack | sustain | decay | release
lowpass resonance
amount
delay module
feedback
delay module
time
using signal return
The signal return interface is simple and powerful.
The ASDR knobs control the attack, sustain, decay and release
envelope of the sample playback and are used to shape the way
the sounds trigger and release in Kontakt.
The LP CUT and LP RES knobs work together to create a resonant
sweepable lowpass filter that can create nodes in the feedback
textures.
The HP knob controls the hipass filter frequency - useful as a radio
effect or for thinning out the lowest parts of the thicker sounding
patches.
The FEEDBACK and DELAY TIME knobs control those two
parameters of the delay module integrated into all of the patches.
Heavy delay and feedback of these patches causes intriguing
feedback on top of feedback for even denser textures.
The mod wheel is heavily integrated into many of the patches. In
some cases it crossfades between multiple samples within the
same patch, and in others it controls deeper effect parameters.
about the signal return samples
The signal return samples are all derived from actual recordings of
various devices feeding back into themselves either acoustically or
electrically. The main setups are as follows:
Demeter TGA3 Tube amp with PRS electric guitar - classic studio
setup with an SM57 on the speaker and a Royer 121 ribbon mic
about 6 feet away. Archetypical guitar feedback.
Yamaha Stagepass PA with SM57 - classic stage PA setup in a
warehouse garage. Archetypical mic taps and squeals. Recorded
with a schoeps MS rig from 10 feet away.
Greta Guitar amp and PRS guitar - line level loop with no speaker
and only built in effects. Very gritty and direct.
Danelectro Honeytone mini amp line level loop - tiny practice amp
run line level through pitch and delay plugins then back into itself.
Huge textured sounds.
Roland Cube amp line level loop - medium practice amp run line
level through pitch and delay plugins then back into itself. Huge
textured sounds.
Roland Cube amp in a bathroom through an echoboy delay pedal
- miked in MS from about 8 feet away with both clean and distorted
channel settings. Pure analog squeals and long reflections.
Sansamp Bass Driver DI line level loop - huge chunky Bass DI
through various pitch and delay plugins. Thick fat gritty textures.
Sony MDR 7506 headphones in the bathroom - straight off the
recording device and waved in and around the sink to cause strange
feedback manipulations. Classic PA feedback sound.
Uniden walkie talkies - short wave radios activating in close
proximity to one another. Classic radio and walkie talkie squeals and
squawks.
Yamaha MSP3 monitor speaker in the bathroom - another
reverberant complex multitambral squeal set. No effects in use, just
amps and speakers feeding back and breaking up.
Each of the samples are fully embedded with soundminer metadata.
The metadata also includes spectrograms of each individual sound
to make combing through the sounds that much quicker.
Spectrograms created using iZotope RX3, available from
www.iZotope.com
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