Shadow Sonic Doubleplay Installation Instruction

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Thank you for choosing a Sonic preamplifier system from Shadow. Shadow’s soundhole fitted preamps for acoustic and classical guitars are designed for
sonic clarity, ease of installation and preservation of your instrument. Shadow’s Sonic series includes four different products. All Sonic products are equipped
with Nanoflex undersaddle pickup and/or NanoMAG pickup for the fingerboard. The soundhole fitted preamp eliminates cut of big holes in the guitar.In order
to get the most out of your new pickup system, we recommend you to read the installation instruction and the owner’s manual.
For all products of Shadow’s Sonic series you should start with the endpin installation, followed by the Nanoflex and/or NanoMAG pickup installation and
finished with the fitting of the preamp. The system is powered by two 3V cell batteries (Sonic Basic uses one battery only) and it turns on automatically as
soon as the guitar cable is plugged in into the endpin. The battery LED lights on 30 minutes before need to be replaced.
Take off the strings, remove original strap nut and increase hole up to 12,5mm diameter. Remove endpin strap nut, hexagon nut and wahser from the endpin
(Fig. 1). Mount the endpin as shown on Fig. 2. Adjust the inside nut so that the larger threads end just below the surface of the instrument (Fig. 2, arrow).
Put the washer from the outside on the endpin jack, tighten the hexagon nut with 12mm wrench and screw endpin strap nut on.
Remove the protective foil and press NanoMAG pickup to the end of your fingerboard. Make sure the pickup sits parallel to your frets and touches the
guitar’s top.
Take off the original saddle and drill a 3.1mm diameter hole in the corner of the saddle slot at the bass string side (see Fig.3). 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.
Push the pickup cable through the hole in the bridge and place the pickup into the bridge slot showing “NFX top” up towards the saddle. To accommodate
the height of the original bridge reduce the height of the saddle (Fig. 4). Pay attention, that the bottom side has to be absolutely flat.
Insert the saddle and secure it temporarily with a piece of tape. Use the single wire clip to secure the wire from the pickup to the underside of the top and
secure the cable into it (Fig. 3). Failing to secure the wire may produce bizarre audio consequences. Place the double cable holder to the side of the guitar
and secure the endpin cable and the pickup cable into it.
Carefully sand with a fine sandpaper the interior side of your guitar`s top where the preamp will be placed. Afterwards clean up this area and eliminate the
wood dust. Place the preamp for testing purposes to the place it fits your guitar best. Before you fix the preamp measure the hight of the top bracing if the
amount of adhesive tape is sufficient. If the braces are too high you should apply adhesive stickers on the top of the stickers fixed on the preamp.
Connect the pickup(s) and endpin cable, remove protective foil from the preamp sticker
and press the preamp to the top. Mount the strings and tune your instrument. Make
sure the strings do not pull the bridge saddle forward in neck direction (Fig. 5, 6 & 7).
You can fix your preamp into the guitar permamently by using the adhesive sticker
already applied to the preamp. If you want to take the preamp off from time to time
use included velcro stickers. Velcro stickers have to be glued on the top of the
permament mount stickers. After gluing to the top (Fig. 8) do not remove the preamp
for at least 12 hours to achieve the bond with the wood. Connect the endpin with a
regular guitar cable to an amplifier.
The battery turns automatically on, as soon as you plug the instrument cable into
the endpin. To spare the battery life, take the cable out, when not used.
Installation Instruction For Sonic Series:
Sonic Doubleplay, Sonic Nanoflex, Sonic NanoMAG, Sonic Basic
Fax: (561) 743 0460
Shadow Elektroakustik
Peter-Haendel Straße 2
91334 Hemhofen · Germany
Shadow Electronics of America Inc.
17791 Alexander Run
Jupiter, FL 33478 U.S.A.
Fax: +49 - 91 95 - 92 99 30
For more informatin please check: http://www.shadow-electronics.com
Introduction:
Installation:
1. Endpin Installation:
2. NanoMAG Installation (at Sonic Doubleplay and Sonic NanoMAG):
Fig. 2
Fig. 4Fig. 3
3. Nanoflex Installation:
4. Soundhole Fitted Preamplifier Installation:
Fig. 1
Fig. 8
0.8 mm
original bridge saddle
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Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 5
strings
pickup
saddle
instrument’s bridge
saddle
strings
pickup
instrument’s bridge
instrument’s bridge
inclinated classical guitar bridge
inclinated acoustic guitar bridge
strings
pickup
saddle
outside washer
endpin
strap nut
inside nut
hexagon nutinside washer
single
wire clip
Nanoflex undersaddle pickup
original bridge saddle
top of instrument
bridge
drilled hole
(angle: 30-45°)
E-6 string
E-1 string