I'm adding a signal to the characters

[icy knot]

Hola!
Correct, VONComponent doesn't access the SignalsManager at all, it was discussed quite a few times here. Your best bet to change stuff in there would be to use Audio Variables: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Audio_Editor:_Audio_Variables

(Btw, took the liberty to delete the code as to not clutter the main thread so much :))

[fiery nest]

Hmm thank you for the input, that seems very rough as I was trying to design it to take a signal specific to a player