Delay feedback and saturation, is it dangerous?

Elektron Gear Analog Keys/Four
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Hi guys

I’m new to this forum and i’ve received my wonderful A4 yesterday. I was trying some preset sounds without knowing that the delay was active with high level of feedback. Obviously many of the sounds started to increase in volume and i didn’t know how to stop the A4 from playing (i learned later about the double press of the stop button). I let the A4 playing this saturated sounds for a while and then i switched off. In this case it was clearly my mistake but it could be interesting for experimental sounds…

Is it dangerous to let the A4 playing in such a saturated way ?

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for your ear and speakers yes

otherwise no

i have an issue switching patterns with different delay setting and get a horrible loud feedbacking/change of delay time

its bad and yet no one else seems to have this issue

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Thank you for your answer!

Don’t worry… no speaker were plugged, i was playing with my headphones. Regarding the ear, i dropped the volume with the “master volume” knob and no damage occurred. :slight_smile:

My concerns were about the internal components of A4… so no damage should be occurred ?

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No, it is not possible to damage the machine by changing parameters - even if it sounds like it’s going to explode. :loopy:

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Very dangerous for your ears, especially with headphones.