Radial HotShot ABO

Pineville, NC, United States

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Radial HotShot ABo: One Mic, Two Destinations, One Footswitch The Radial HotShot ABo is a compact, fully passive latching footswitch that takes one balanced XLR input and routes it to either of two balanced XLR outputs, or can be configured to mute the signal entirely. There is no active circuitry and no transformer in the path — just a true-bypass passive signal running through a rugged footswitch, with an input pad and a ground lift to keep things clean and quiet. For the performer or engineer who needs to send a single microphone one of two ways on cue — stage to booth, PA to recorder, live to muted — the HotShot ABo does exactly one job and does it with a single, silent stomp. What the HotShot ABo Does The HotShot ABo is a one-in, two-out balanced signal selector you operate with your foot. A single balanced XLR source — most often a microphone — comes in, and the latching footswitch sends it to Output A or Output B, holding whichever you last selected until you press again. Reconfigured, that same switch becomes a mute, cutting the signal off completely when you step on it. Because it works entirely in the balanced XLR domain, it can sit anywhere a mic-level signal needs to be steered live: routing a mic between front-of-house and monitors, feeding a mic to the PA or a recorder, or splitting a vocal to two console channels for wet and dry processing. A Fully Passive, True-Bypass Signal Path Unlike Radial's transformer-isolated switchers, the HotShot ABo is deliberately kept fully passive and true-bypass, meaning your microphone signal flows through nothing but the switch contacts themselves. There are no transformers, no active electronics, and no power supply anywhere in the audio path, so the signal that comes out is electrically identical to the one that went in — no coloration, no added noise, and nothing to introduce a failure point. It is worth being clear about the trade-off: because there is no isolation transformer, the HotShot does not break ground loops on its own the way an isolated DI or splitter would. What it delivers instead is the purest, simplest, most reliable routing possible, with an audio path that needs no power to work. Input Pad and Ground Lift Two small controls handle the practical realities of live routing. The input pad drops the incoming signal level, giving you headroom when the source is hot — a loud vocal or a high-output mic — so nothing downstream clips. The ground-lift switch disconnects the ground on the output side, which helps tame any hum or buzz that creeps in when the HotShot ties together two pieces of gear that each carry their own ground reference. Together they let you drop the box into a real-world signal chain and keep it clean, whatever it happens to be feeding. A Latching Footswitch Built for the Stage Everything about the HotShot ABo is made to be stepped on. The latching footswitch holds its state hands-free, so once you select a destination it stays there through a whole song or a whole set without you touching it again. It is housed in Radial's rugged steel chassis, the same road-proven build found across the line, so it shrugs off the stomps and drops of live use and keeps working night after night. With one balanced input, two balanced outputs, and nothing to power up, it is about as close to indestructible as a routing tool gets. Who the Radial HotShot ABo Is For The HotShot ABo is for the vocalist who needs a footswitchable cough mute on a live mic; for the engineer routing a single microphone between front-of-house and monitors, an intercom, or an in-ear feed; and for anyone splitting a mic between the PA and a recorder or steering a vocal to two console channels for wet and dry processing. If you need to send one balanced signal one of two ways on cue, with no power and no fuss, the HotShot ABo is the passive footswitch that makes the move silent and certain.

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$154.99