Source audio Hothand User Manual

TM

Motion Controlled Phaser/Flanger

Users Guide

SA-102

Please Read This First

Contents

Important Safety Information

• WARNING! Before using unit, be sure to read the owners manual and

other warnings below.

• CAUTION! All electronic devices should be out of reach of children.

• CAUTION! If used improperly, batteries may explode or leak and cause

damage or injury.

4 Welcome

5 Overview of Features

6 Quick Start

10 Features

12 Modulation Sources

16 Knobs

20 Connections

22 Pedals

23 Saving Presets

24 Effect Types

26 Back Page Features and Controls

31 Sequencer Controls

33 Factory Presets

34 Specifications

34 Troubleshooting

35 Warranty

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Overview of Features | 5

Welcome!

Overview of Features

Thank you for purchasing The Hot Hand™ Motion
Controlled Phaser/Flanger. We hope to help you
discover a whole new world of musical expression.

Hot Hand products may be completely new,
but they are easy to use. We have worked hard
to bring you as much power and as many features
as possible while keeping the controls simple
and intuitive.

This manual is organized so that you can get
started quickly. Read over the first few pages and
you will be ready to go. If you would like to know
more about the product, move on to the following
sections. It is certainly recommended that you
quickly read the section on the Hot Hand on page

13. A few quick insights into how it works will

allow you better control of the sounds you create.

Enjoy!

MOTION CONTROL

Motion control with Hot Hand™, which uses
patent-pending technology to translate your body
movement into sound.

INTUITIVE

An innovative and simple interface that makes
it easy to access all features.

MODERN DESIGN

A thoughtfully designed box, which features
rugged construction and sleek design.

DIVERSE SOUND PALETTE

A wide palette of sounds: some new, some
classics, and all customizable.

STATE-OF-THE-ART DSP

Our proprietary state-of-the-art 56 bit Digital
Signal Processing chip, the
clear

24 bit converters.

SA601, and crystal

—The Source Audio team

4 | Welcome

ULTRA-CLEAN SIGNAL

“Active Analog Bypass” which routes the signal
around the entire signal processing path to
ensure your signal is clean when the effect is
not engaged.

Quick Start

SAVE

(ALT) BACKPAGE

PRESET 03PRESET

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)

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FLANGER

PHASER

FLAIL/SLOWPICK/FAST

STRUM

Your Hot Hand comes with the following components.

Carrying Case

Hot Hand Extension

Hot Hand Arm Band

4 AA Batteries

01 : Power

The first thing you will need is power. Your Hot Hand
batteries to get you started. The batteries will typically last about

™

unit comes with

4 AA

15 to 20

hours. To avoid concerns about battery life, we recommend you buy a Source
Audio 9V DC power supply (A) (see power supply note on page 14 for exact
requirements).

02 : SENSOR IN connection

Next, connect the supplied EXTENSION CABLE to the SENSOR IN jack (B). Later,
you’ll plug the other end into the wire that trails from the Hot Hand, but hold
off on that for now.

B A

Hot Hand Control Box

03 : Guitar/Audio Connections

Now, you’ll need to make the audio connections. Plug a regular (mono)
¼-inch guitar cable from your guitar into the
amp (or other audio device) to the
¼-inch cable

Note: Plugging a cable into the input will turn the unit on, causing some

(D).

GUITAR OUT jack, again with a regular

of the LEDs to light up. Don’t forget to turn off the unit by unplugging this

Hot Hand Rings (5 sizes)

Hot Hand Motion Sensor

cord—otherwise the battery will continue to drain.

C D

GUITAR IN jack (C). Connect your

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04 : Attaching the Hot Hand Motion Sensor

Choose the ring size which fits most comfortably. This is ideally placed on the
middle or ring finger of your strumming hand (A). Put your guitar on and take
out the Hot Hand sensor. Insert the Hot Hand into the ring as shown. To pre
vent the sensor cord from interfering with your playing, use the provided arm
band (B) to hold it up near your elbow as shown. Once everything is comfort
able, attach the wire that comes from the Hot Hand into the

Note: the extension cable is not required for operation, but it is almost cer
tainly required for using the product in the standing position. When the Hot
Hand is connected, and the control box is powered-on, a blue
the sensor to indicate is it ready to be used (C).

A

C

Hot Hand Motion Sensor

LED

EXTENSION CABLE.

LED will glow in

B

06: How to select and control the effects

Preset Selection

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Make sure effects are engaged by checking the ON/OFF light. Toggle the ON/OFF
pedal to turn it on, if necessary.

Select any of the four presets by using the
them. Note which of the

MOD SOURCE lights are on at the top of the EFFECT

knob. These select what will be sweeping the effect. If the
on, moving the

HOT HAND will not make any difference.

SELECT pedal to advance through

HOT HAND light is not

Editing

• Use the EFFECT knob to select any of the 7 phasers or 7 flangers.

• Hold down the SELECT pedal, and turn the EFFECT knob. It will now change

the MOD SOURCE selection instead of making an effect selection.

• Use the DEPTH control to select the amount of modulation depth (sweep)

applied to the effect.

• Use the MOTION/SPEED control to select how fast the modulation source var-

ies. It determines how much the Hot Hand responds to rapid motion; it sets
the LFO speed; and it controls how quickly the ENVELOPE tracks the levels of
the guitar signal.

• Turn the MOTION/SPEED knob such that the LED indicator light moves across

the bottom-most part of the range. This will change the state of the
switch. If

INVERT is on, both the HOT HAND and ENVELOPE direction of sweep

will be reversed.

• When LFO is selected as the MOD SOURCE, turning on INVERT will select SEQ

as the modulation source instead of the

LFO. Sequencer patterns will then be

used to sweep the effect.

• Hold down the SELECT pedal, and adjust FREQUENCY range for the phasers,

and DELAY time for the flangers with the DEPTH knob.

INVERT

Hot Hand Ring

05 : Calibration (optional)

Calibration is recommended, but not required. See page 11 for additional
information.

Calibration is easy. Just turn the
position and hold your strumming hand in its normal playing position over
the strings. Your hand should be held relatively still. Then, tap the
pedal once. The

ON/OFF LED will blink for a few seconds. When the LED is off,

you are calibrated and ready to go. Turn the Effect Selector knob away from
the CALIBRATE position to select an effect.

EFFECT knob to the CALIBRATE

ON/OFF

Advanced editing

The Back Page parameters provide access to a number of miscellaneous
parameters, including control of the sequencer. Press

SAVE while holding down

the SELECT pedal to edit these parameters. See page 26-30 for a detailed list.

Save Preset

If you wish to save the changes you have made to a preset location, hold down
the SAVE button. When the preset LED stops blinking, the data has been saved
to the current preset.

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Features

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

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08

07

06

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02

03

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00 08

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06

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03

05

01

FLANGER

PHASER

FLAIL/SLOWPICK/FAST

STRUM

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 con­trolled. The product contains
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
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:

the Phaser, which shifts the range of the Phaser sweep, or
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
effect modulation signal and use it to control other effects boxes that have an
Expression Input feature. Finally, the
Hot Hand signal to other Source Audio Hot Hand products and control them
with a single motion sensor.

7 different Phasers and 7 different Flangers.

LED

FREQUENCY for

DELAY for the

EXPRESSION OUT allows you to take the final

SENSOR OUT jack allows you to send the

The ON/OFF pedal switch puts the effect in or out of the circuit. Another way

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

to toggle the effect state is to use the special

KNOCK mode. Tapping twice

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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.

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