Brief
Description
The invention is the first portable
musical instrument effect controller. It attaches to the shaft of a
potentiometer of a musical instrument effect and allows adjustment
of the invention by using the foot or other body part. It also
enables specific settings to be retrieved by presetting these
levels as the minimum or maximum that this device can attain. Then
by adjusting this device to its limits, the desired setting on the
musical instrument effect can be retrieved
immediately.
What problem
does it solve?
Musical instrument effects typical
cannot be adjusted while a musician plays his/her instrument. Very
few effects have adjustment capabilities. Of those effects, only
one potentiometer per effect can be controlled; and the particular
control may not be the one that the musician needs in order to make
his/her performance memorable.
How do I solve
the problem?
By creating this portable device that
can generically adjust potentiometers, it can enable a musician to
adjust the specific control that is wished. It also lends itself to
be used on the vertically positioned potentiometers of amplifiers
and rack-mount equipment. The invention also solves the need to
access specific control levels on musical instrument effects by
presetting these levels with the attached
invention.
Why is it
unique?
This invention is unique. There is no
invention of this type available. Along with its portability
feature, this invention also provides setting retrieval abilities
that are beyond the capabilities of musical instrument effects
which provide setting retrieval abilities that are permanently
attached to their accompanying
equipment.
How does it
operate?
The shaft sheath of the invention fits
over the musical instrument effect's potentiometer shaft. The
support structure provides the necessary placement. A hexagonal
screwdriver is used to tighten the sheath to the potentiometer
shaft. Then the removable foot platform can be placed on the square
control platform from any of its four sides. The placement of the
foot platform upon the square control platform is determined by the
musician and can be easily adjusted to different lengths. This
ability allows multiple units of its like to operate more than one
of the potentiometers of a musical instrument
effect
|