How Many Hands do You Use to Adjust Settings on Your Amp?

[slap_happy]

Forgive the redundancy if you've seen my other post(s).

I'm at school studying industrial design and my current project is designing a bass amp combo for use by both the blind and sighted.

A quick question for my research: (As the title implies) How many hands do use to adjust the settings on your amp?

I know I generally put the bass over my shoulder first, plug the cable into the bass, and then using my right hand, plug the cable into the amp, and adjust things accordingly while my left hand steadies the neck of the bass.

This must all seem like a pretty minor detail but human factors people get pretty nit picky about details in interaction between people and their products

Thanks,
Jim

 

[stflbn]

One Hand

 

[fretlessrock]

seven. eight max.

 

[lomo]

1

 

[bongomania]

Agreed, one hand holds the neck of the bass to keep it from banging into anything, while the other hand turns knobs.

 

[vinxbass]

I use one hand, my right hand and fingers.

 

[TheBassPreacher]

Your not rockin out unless you adjust with your teeth!

 

[thudfromafar]

My left knee, my right knee, and my wee knee.

 

[MonkeyBass]

Serious answer: Steady the bass with my left hand, adjust the amp with my right.

 

[backline112]

Serious answer: Steady the bass with my left hand, adjust the amp with my right.

Me too. Good luck man.

 

[NickRich]

With my right hand.

 

[RickenBoogie]

Agreed, steady bass with left, adjust amp with right.

 

[johnk_10]

"How Many Hands do You Use to Adjust Settings on Your Amp?"

i do not believe that it requires any more than one.

 

[slap_happy]

"How Many Hands do You Use to Adjust Settings on Your Amp?"

i do not believe that it requires any more than one.

Thanks for the help guys. johnk_10, my reason for asking this question is that if your were blind, I assume it would be hard to find the hole of the input jack or any other ins/outs on the amp by poking around the control panel with the end of your cable. Blind user's might resort to feeling the jack with one hand, and guiding the end of the cable towards that hand and into the jack using their other hand.

 

[blipndub]

Stevie Ray Vaughn style, roll everything to ten with a sweep of your arm

 

[kranahan]

left steadies bass, right turns knobs.

 

[kranahan]

are you going to put braille on the amp.. telling the blind person what is what?

 

[J-Razz]

I use my foot.

edit: on the RC-4 footswitch.

 

[JimmyM]

Thanks for the help guys. johnk_10, my reason for asking this question is that if your were blind, I assume it would be hard to find the hole of the input jack or any other ins/outs on the amp by poking around the control panel with the end of your cable. Blind user's might resort to feeling the jack with one hand, and guiding the end of the cable towards that hand and into the jack using their other hand.

Blind people aren't stupid. They just can't see. What they need more than anything is braille printing for all the effects loops and speaker jacks in the back so they don't have to count jacks and possibly be wrong.

 

[johnk_10]

Thanks for the help guys. johnk_10, my reason for asking this question is that if your were blind, I assume it would be hard to find the hole of the input jack or any other ins/outs on the amp by poking around the control panel with the end of your cable. Blind user's might resort to feeling the jack with one hand, and guiding the end of the cable towards that hand and into the jack using their other hand.

i played with a really close friend of mine that is a great guitarist that is blind and i never saw him use more than one hand to 'adjust' his amp, although he did use two to plug in his cable.