Perhaps you remember Source Audio, but if you don't, it's the company that puts out the Hot Hand, a unique motion controller that controls some equally unique effects. The controller is worn like a ring and your hand movements dictate the intensity of the effect. Now you have more hand controllable effect options with the release of Source Audio Multiwave Pro (and the promise that Bass Multiwave Pro will follow), which should have people waving their hands around in trial or demonstration at Winter NAMM '09.

The original Multiwave provided some unique, complex distortions -- 21 distortion effects in all based on several algorithms. The Multiwave Pro adds six times the functionality thanks to its ability to store six different distortion presets. EQ and clean boost have also been added. For a pedal with sounds that range from subtle clean boosts to face smashing high gain to abnormal synthetics, presets are a necessity to utilize the pedal's full range.

The Multiwave Pro also includes a MIDI input port that manages all the effect's parameters. For bassists, the Bass Multiwave Pro is on the horizon. Expect the addition of an adjustable clean signal to add punch and clarity. And rest assured that an expert testing team comprised of Adrian Belew, Vernon Reid, Tony Levin and Victor Wooten means that some crazy talented musicians have put the ol' "stomp of approval" on it.