The tutorial is only 10 minutes but you don ' t need much more than that . They show you all you need to know .

This is extremely fair because you can shuffle the deck and have a card freely chosen . The gimmick is so well designed it hides in plain sight and the card is replaced and you can then shuffle it . Whenever you want you can make the card rise . This is where it becomes important to watch the tutorial before you play around with the gimmick , otherwise the card will just quickly pop up . The best effect is when the card slowly rises from the middle . The nice thing is you can control the speed of the rise so it is easy to make it rise slowly , or quickly depending on your routine .

You can also have several card selected and rise from the deck . Because the gimmick is a solid block it is easy to control and makes it easy to do this with several cards , each time shuffling the cards back in to the deck . This really looks like incredible skill because you have shuffled the card each time it is replaced .

Another nice idea is to have the card rise from a glass or from inside the deck which is inside a card box . This would give you three different ways to make it rise .

I think as far as the most organic and fairest card rise I ' ve seen this is one of the best . It ' s very easy to do , easy to learn and you can just add it anytime to your regular deck and perform something people expect you to be able to do . Definitely one of my favorite versions of doing a fair card rise and great for walk-around , restaurant , trade shows or anytime you carry a deck of cards with you .

Very highly recommended .

SECRET VOICE by ZF Magic , Bond Lee & MS Magic Price : $ 250.00 Available : All magic dealers

Secret Voice , the secret sound system every professional performer needs . Secret Voice is a portable sound system that allows you to control music and sound effects with a press of a button . The device is very small and light ; you can put it anywhere - even inside your clothes .

We designed a special remote-control holder , so you can play the sound effect or music secretly . The remote control has a maximum 100 meters effective range , so you can use the device in any situation , like parlor , street , stage , basically everywhere . Secret voice can also connect to audio systems that use a 3.5mm or 6.5mm jack , making it very versatile .

Secret Voice is the perfect sound solution for professional performers .

MY THOUGHTS :

This novel sound device comes with the speaker , a remote , a thumb-drive , a special 3D printed tool that the remote can fit in to making it easy to have it under your jacket and instant access to the buttons on the control . It also comes with several different cables . The idea of this is to have it on you somewhere and you will have access to any sound effect you want or any piece of music . You can connect the speaker to another sound unit and control it too via the remote . If you do stage or larger style shows this is a great idea so at anytime you want a sound effect you hit the remote , unseen , and the sound FX will happen .

The USB that comes with it has several different sounds on it and these are used in the demonstration video . It is an easy matter to add files , move to valorous groups of files all by the remote . You use your computer to put the sounds in the files and then have access to them once the thumb drive is put in the speaker . The speaker is charged via a USB cable and will last quite some time .

This really is a novel idea and the sound box itself is designed to clip on your belt . One idea I ' ve been playing with is to have the speaker inside a ventriloquist puppet .

The system allows you to hold a lot of different sound FX . The first 10 files are for single files . Each file can hold 8 sounds . You can of course put in whatever sound you want ,. These are designed to enhance you performance and perfect for close-up or walkaround when you want to make something vanish and perhaps a ' woosh ' sound happens . Imagine if you are doing a kids party and you have a child wave a wand you can have a sound happen at that point . This really is the first real system I ' ve seen that is designed to enhance an act using such a well designed sound device . The device or speaker itself is a little on the heavy side and slightly bulky but I attach it on my belt under my jacket and it ' s never seen . You could find somewhere else to conceal it depending on how you want to use it .

You have the choice to play single files or sequential files . You can have up to 80 different sound FX in Single file mode . They go in files one to ten . You can turn yourself in to a human cartoon with the sound FX . You aren ' t limited to sound FX you can have music in there too .

The sequence mode allows 50 music files per file - so you have files 11 through to 20 . Here the tracks will play from one to the other in a sequence .

The volume when turned up loud is loud enough for most working conditions . There is even a coin in glass sound effect so you can see how you can add the element of sound to enhance a trick .

They also give you access to music files downloaded to Dropbox if you want to download them . You obviously need a computer to do this and drag your sounds in to the various files . It is VERY easy to use and the good thing is you can change these anytime you want .

This is a very unique product that I think magicians will have a lot of fun with . The 3D gimmick they supply helps make it easy to hit the 8-button remote while it is under your jacket and trigger a sound . If you are looking at adding sound FX to your close-up or stage show this is a great device to use . Very highly recommended and I ' m having a lot of fun with this .

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