{"id":1368,"date":"2011-01-07T18:13:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T23:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2011-01-25T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T21:23:44","slug":"the-talent-booster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/the-talent-booster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Talent Booster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago when I had the opportunity to watch Richard Shindell<\/a> play for the first time, he got into a fun, jaded bantering with the sound guy. During a quiet moment in the show, Shindell calmly asked, “do you think you can turn down the SUCK knob on the board?” The crowd slightly gasped…even moreso when the sound guy replied, “Sure. Should I turn up the talent knob, too?”<\/p>\n

Without missing a beat, Shindell said, “Okay. But only in the monitor”. \u00a0We then realized that they knew each other quite well and were getting a kick out of the whole exchange.\u00a0Who’d a thought someone would actually package all that angst into a convenient little pedal called the Talent Booster<\/strong> ?<\/p>\n

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Of course, you can’t buy an actual Talent Booster pedal, but you can browse a list of similar imaginary pedals (such as the Ego Compressor<\/strong>, 60 Cycle Hum Boost<\/strong>, and my favorite, the Intermittent Shorter<\/strong>) over at a page called Red Teletronix Custom Pedals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m still on the hunt for a pedal called the Crappy Ground with Built-In Buzz<\/strong> effect…though many of the places I play seem to have that built into the building.<\/p>\n