Just took delivery of an A-116 from Enport and while his service
was terrific, I have to say I was a little underwhelmed with the unit
itself. It just doesn't do a lot. If any of you have any tricks you've
learned to enhance it's sound let me know.

I was able to get a very interesting sound out of it however by
combining it with his VCswitch in a very odd way. You might
want to try this at home:

Connect a sine into the A-116. VC the shift with a ramp LFO.
Listen to it. You will hear a tiny bit of waveshape modulation,
nothing to go bats over.

Take the output of the A-116 and route it into the INACTIVE I/0
jack of the VC switch (the one in which the LED is OFF). do not
connect a VC into the switch, let it stay in that state. Listen to the
output of the VC switch.

You will hear an incredible amplification of the waveshaping
effect now. I have no idea why this is happening. If there is no
VC into the switch in order to connect the output (wiper) to the
normally open contact (the I/0 without the LED on), then you
shouldn't hear a damn thing....but you do. I tried it on both the
upper and lower VC swtch, worked like a charm.

try it,m you might like it.

best,

Peter Grenader