Might be a dumb question to raise…
I’m really interested in distorted, messy sounds that really push the machine to it’s ‘breaking point’ if you know what I mean. Heard an amazingly beautiful album by Alessandro Cortini recently which sounded like he was throwing guitars into an FX chain and letting it distort and bend etc…and I wanted to try that on the Digitone.
Any danger of breaking the circuitry with the Digitone’s own path?
I’m assuming if I throw external gear into the INS and crank it up loud enough I might break it?
TL/DR - Can the Digitone blow itself if I push the levels hard enough?
As far as I am aware, the fully digital path is not going to harm itself, nor whatever DACs / output circuitry.
Do you have an explicit concern? I can go through the analog/digital paths in the manual again but I don’t recall any weak points of concern.
The clipping is digital, track mixing as well. Headroom is going to be bound beneath spec for the output circuitry, even if blasting at 100% for years.
This is what I was thinking. I knew the manual said the input level had an upper limit and he’s talking about sending audio signal in, correct? So that means elektron is warning you can potentially damage it if the signal is above that level…
This is frickin awesome! Exactly the kind of thing I want to explore. Clipping. Distortion. Incoherent chaotic messy music. Any tips for this kind of thing? And no danger of pushing it too far to harm the unit itself?
Sure, it potentially could blow some components. There´s gonna be protection and even if damage has occured it should be repairable. I´m speaking in vague terms, because I don´t know how exactly the input section is built and where it is located on the pcb, what´s directly next to it etc. But, with levels you are typically dealing with, it shouldn´t be an issue and as long as you immediately notice you´re blasting it with some crazy feedback and turn it down, I´m sure the inputs won´t get damaged.
