Isms spring tile distortion (and other uses?)

[catfish]

I am wondering if my isms spring tank driver tile is working correctly – with an unattenuated signal from mangrove at the input, as I turn it past halfway I start getting distortion. It gets worse as I continue to full wet. I get better sound if I attenuate the signal first, but I really don’t want to have to tie up an attenuator for that purpose alone. Is this similar to other users experiences, and do you have a workaround?

I am also wondering if the tile can be used with other euro modules or external FX units? I am not entirely sure what the following means, if anyone can elaborate further.

@Galapagoose

The RCAs are specific to a spring tank (high power driver & make up stage). The output mixer has interesting stereo capability which would allow you to run one side as a line-level FX send, and return into the audio input section.

Other creative uses for the spring tile? Please share!

[Oootini]

spring reverb is always going to get very noisy with high harmonic content waveforms. try sine waves and lots of attenuation.

[sandy]

Other creative uses for the spring tile? Please share!

Stick CV through it. In fact stick CV through any (nominally) audio effects. It can often elicit interesting results.

[Oootini]

Set up slow moving controlled feedback loops into the spring input. Delicious.