Shadow SH Hex Pedal User manual

Introduction:
Thank you and congratulations for choosing a Shadow pickup system. Shadow preamps are known for the most reliable, user-friendly and best
sounding products on the market. As a result of an enormous research and development effort over three years, Shadow releases a revolutionary
pickup system. The hexaphonic pickup Nanoflex-6 unitessix Nanoflex pickups in one –onefor eachstring.
Installation:
We recommendinstallation by a professional.
1. Installation Nanoflex 6 Pickup:
Take off strings, remove original saddle and drill a 3mm diameter hole in the corner of thesaddle slot at the bass string side (see Fig. 1). The hole
has to be drilled in an angle of 30°-45°. Check your bracing before drilling the hole to avoid a damage of it. Clean up the saddle slot and eliminate
the wood dust and chips.
Pushthe Nanoflex 6 pickup from inside of guitar through the hole in the bridge and place the pickup into the bridge slot. Makesure that the printed
sideof the pickup showing towards the saddle. Pay attentionthat the bottom side of the saddle has to be absolutelyflat.
Insert the supplied hexaphonic-saddle and secure it temporarily with a piece of tape. Connect pickup with multiplexer (pickup input: “Hex
Nanoflex”). Use the single wire clip to secure the wire from the pickupto the underside of the top and secure the cable into it. Failed to secure the
wire may produce bizarre audio consequences. Place thedouble cable holder to the side of the guitar and secure the endpincable and the pickup
cableintoit.
2. Installation of Volume Control:
The volumecontrol sits inside the guitar and is reachable through thesoundhole.
Place the volume control for testing purposes tothe place it fits your guitar best.
Clean up the interior side of your guitar’s topwhere the volume control will be placed.
Connect the volume control with the multiplexer (input: “Volume”). Take protection foil
of volume control off and glue it to the instrument’s top.
3. Installation of Multiplexer:
Remove original strap nut and increase hole up to 12,5mm diameter. Remove endpin
strap nut, hexagon nut and washer from the multiplexer. (Fig. 5). Mount the endpin
as shown on Fig. 6. Adjust the inside nut so that the larger threads end just below
the surface of the instrument (Fig. 6, arrow). Put the washer from the outside on the
endpin jack. Tightenthe hexagon nut with 12mm wrench and screwendpin strap nut on.
FIG. 1
Mount thestrings andtune your instrument. Makesure the strings do notpull the bridgesaddle forward in neck direction (Fig. 2, 3& 4).
4. ConnectMultiplexer with Hex-Pedal:
Connect your guitar with the Hex-Pedal (“Input”) by using supplied stereo-cable and connect Hex-Pedal output with your amplification system by
using two regular guitar cables. You can use a Y-stereo or mono-cable (left channel only). Connect supplied power adapter with your Hex-Pedal
and turn HexPedal on by pressing ON/OFF knob.
If you will ever use another power adapter you have make sure that it’s for 9V, 1A and center pin on the plug has to be 2.1mm diameter and it is a
negative pole.
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Installation Instructions for
SH Hex Pedal
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FIG. 6
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There are following controls at the Hex-Pedal:
Tuner:
To use tuner, push tuner ON/OFF knob (which mutes the signal automatically). Plug the string and display will show which note is played. If you
plug E6 you should tune it so that the displayshowE. If the played note is in tune, green LED (T) turns on. Upper LEDs will indicate if too high,
lower LEDs if it’s too low.. When it is correctly tuned it must show E and the green LED must be on. When finished tuning, press the tuner
ON/OFF button andthe tuner will get off. The sound will return.
Volume:
Pressing thevolumeknobs will cut orincrease total volume. You canchange the volume also with yoursoundhole fitted control unit.
Equalizer Controls - Bass, Mid, Treble:
Bass, Mid and Treble willchange theEQto desiredsound.
Single String Gain Controls:
To adjust the single string gain (+/- 3 db) turn the small trim pot knob. Toincrease the volume turn to the right from themiddle; to decrease the
volume turn tothe left from themiddle.
Panorama (PAN):
Turning tothe left will bring the stringtothe left speaker of your amplification system. Turningtothe right will bring the string to the right.
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User’s Manual for
SH Hex Pedal
Tuner
on/off
PanoramaControl
For Every String
Tuner ON/OFF
Master Volume Down and Up
Bass, Mid& Treble Controls
Gain Control
For Every String
LED Display Indicates Played Tone
Dot Indicates Semi-Tone (b/#)
T = Played Tone In Tune