hush by daylight noise

The line

Under the line nothing happens at all: what comes out of HUSH is what went in, to the bit. The path down the middle shows your level, and flashes when a sound gets to its far end.

HUSH, the big knob: the line, how quiet you must be. Fully left it's at −48 dB, and a breath brings it; at noon −25 dB; fully right −2 dB, and only a slam does.

HUSH, the jack: its CV, added to the knob.

LEFT, RIGHT: the mix in. It's heard on both together, and where in the stereo a loud sound sat is where it turns.

The hunt

LEAP: how far it comes with each sound that gets through. Fully left a fifth of the way, so a few loud sounds to find you; at noon nearly half, so three; fully right all of it, so one is enough. A sound well over the line counts for more, and if you go quiet it slowly loses you.

CLICK: how loud and busy its clicking is in the mix: none fully left, a clatter on most sixteenths fully right. Far off the clicks are quiet and dark; near, they're loud, bright and dry.

The string across the top lights from both ends inward as it comes nearer, brighter on the side it's turned to, and every click runs along it.

The strike

TEAR: how hard it strikes. The last half second of your mix is torn into grains and thrown hard left and right under a shriek: a bare cut fully left, a second and a half of shredding, an octave either way, fully right.

STILL: then every output goes to nothing for a beat fully left, three at noon, two whole bars fully right, before the mix creeps back in over a beat.

COUNT: a clock, a pulse a beat. After the tear it holds its breath to the next beat, and the silence is counted in beats from there, so it ends on one. Unpatched, a beat is half a second.

Cover and fire

COVER: a second input, listened to, never passed. While it's louder than you, it can't hear you, and you can be as loud as you like.

FIRE, a lit button and its gate: a flare of noise thrown hard to one side. It turns at once, goes after the flare and strikes that instead, and the mix plays on. In the silence it breaks the silence.

What comes out

LEFT, RIGHT: the mix, with its clicks, its strikes and its silences.

CLICKS: its clicks and shrieks alone, at full whatever CLICK says.

HEARD: a trigger every time you're heard.

NEAR: how near it is, 0 to 8 V.

STRIKE, SILENT: gates, high through a strike and through the silence.

Specs

Format

Width: 20 HP
Controls: a big knob, 4 knobs, a lit button

Inputs

LEFT, RIGHT: audio, ±5 V; RIGHT takes LEFT when it's empty
COVER: audio, listened to only
COUNT: clock, a pulse a beat, rising past 1 V
FIRE: gate, rising past 1 V
HUSH: CV, added to the knob, 5 V the whole way

Outputs

LEFT, RIGHT: audio, the mix
CLICKS: audio, mono
NEAR: CV, 0 to 8 V
Gates: HEARD, STRIKE, SILENT: 0/5 V, HEARD a 10 ms trigger