{"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":"<p>Years ago when I had the opportunity to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardshindell.com\/index.php?page=home\" target=\"_blank\">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, &#8220;do you think you can turn down the SUCK knob on the board?&#8221; The crowd slightly gasped&#8230;even moreso when the sound guy replied, &#8220;Sure. Should I turn up the talent knob, too?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Without missing a beat, Shindell said, &#8220;Okay. But only in the monitor&#8221;. \u00a0We then realized that they knew each other quite well and were getting a kick out of the whole exchange.\u00a0Who&#8217;d a thought someone would actually package all that angst into a convenient little pedal called the <strong>Talent Booster<\/strong> ?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/talent_booster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1367\" title=\"talent_booster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/talent_booster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/talent_booster.jpg 563w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/talent_booster-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Of course, you can&#8217;t buy an actual Talent Booster pedal, but you can browse a list of similar imaginary pedals (such as the <strong>Ego Compressor<\/strong>, <strong>60 Cycle Hum Boost<\/strong>, and my favorite, the <strong>Intermittent Shorter<\/strong>) over at a page called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/yt3\/redtele\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Teletronix Custom Pedals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still on the hunt for a pedal called the <strong>Crappy Ground with Built-In Buzz<\/strong> effect&#8230;though many of the places I play seem to have that built into the building.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fthe-talent-booster%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago when I had the opportunity to watch Richard Shindell play for the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}