Source Audio Hot Hand Phaser/Flanger - Manual (Page 6)

Features
The Hot Hand Concept
The Hot Hand provides a new way to control effects. It is no longer necessary
to stand over a pedal board. The movement of the picking hand becomes an
expression pedal. The control follows the rhythm of the music without con-
scious effort. It is also possible to move the hand much quicker than a pedal
can be moved. The potential for additional showmanship in live performance
must not be overlooked.
Some other possible places to put the Hot Hand sensor besides on a finger of
the picking hand include shoes, a headband, the guitar headstock, your drum-
mer’s hand, your singer’s hand…
OK , maybe the singer isn’t such a good idea.
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The Controls
The Hot Hand Control Box is where all of the effects are created and con-
trolled. The product contains
7 different Phasers and 7 different Flangers.
Some sounds are classics, others are new, and all have been carefully
modeled and created by real musicians. And by using the presets, you can
switch between
FOUR of those sounds without ever bending down to tweak
a knob on stage.
Note that the Hot Hand control box uses rotary encoder knobs and LED
rings. This allows you not only see the knob locations in low light situations,
but you can also jump from one preset to the next and see the setting of each
knob quickly.
The product also gives you one control over each effect: FREQUENCY for
the Phaser, which shifts the range of the Phaser sweep, or DELAY for the
Flanger, which scales all the delay times. This control will greatly change the
sound of the effects. It is independent of the modulation source selection.
In addition to using the Hot Hand to translate hand motion into a signal to
sweep the effects, other modulation sources that may be used are a Low
Frequency Oscillator
(LFO) that provides a periodic back and forth sweep,
a Sequencer that generates a repeating series of control levels, and an
Envelope Follower, which responds to the level of the guitar input signal.
The
MOTION/SPEED control adjusts how fast all of these control sources act,
and the DEPTH control adjusts the range of the effect sweep.
There are three other features related to external “expression” control. First,
the
EXPRESSION IN allows you to control the effects in the Control Box with an
external expression pedal. The EXPRESSION OUT allows you to take the final
effect modulation signal and use it to control other effects boxes that have an
Expression Input feature. Finally, the
SENSOR OUT jack allows you to send the
Hot Hand signal to other Source Audio Hot Hand products and control them
with a single motion sensor.
The ON/OFF pedal switch puts the effect in or out of the circuit. Another way
to toggle the effect state is to use the special KNOCK mode. Tapping twice
in rapid succession with the knuckles of the hand wearing the ring sensor
will switch the effect from On to Off, or from Off to On. The taps should cor-
respond roughly to a rate of
180 BPM . (The time between the taps must be
greater than ¼ of a second, and less than ½ second.) It is not necessary to
actually tap the ring itself on a solid surface. If you are wearing the sensor
on a headband, we do not advise using
KNOCK mode. KNOCK mode may be
enabled and disabled with a Back Page parameter.
SAVE
(ALT) BACKPAGE
PRESET
03
PRESET
04
EFFECT
(ALT) MOD SOURCE
MOTION/SPEED
PRESET
02
PRESET
01
ON/OFF
ENVELOPE
CALIBRATE
LFO/SEQ
INVERT/SEQ ENABLE
DEPTH
(ALT) FREQUENCY/DELAY
HOT HAND
MOTION CONTROLLED PHASER/FLANGER
ON/OFF SELECT
(HOLD FOR ALT MODE)
02
04
06
07
03
02
04
06
07
01
05
02
03 05
00 08
07
06
01
02
03 05
04
00 08
07
06
01
03 05
01
FLANGER PHASER
FLAIL/SLOW PICK/FAST
STRUM