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New related question:………about the “soaker” light indicator on the golden throat. Is the brightness of this light an indication of “signal clipping”?, Is the rule of thumb with this device NOT to let the light stay on constantly? Thanks…..peace
NeilcodyMemberAt first glance, I thought it to be one of Michael Tobias’s guitars, but the “T” wasn’t on the headstock. Gibson screwed him out of using his own name on instruments. Now he uses MTD. He put a brass nut in my ’77 LP custom back in the 80’s and did some fretwork 4 me when he had a shop in Orlando many years back.
Nice looking instrument.
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NeilcodyNeilcodyMemberGlad I read this post, now I need to re-think my pedal layout by comparing different configurations. I run my TU-2 first, then to a vintage 3-knob Fender Blender, etc, etc…What kind of sound difference did you experience after you moved or removed the TU-2 in your signal chain? Was the tuners ability to pick up the guitar sound diminished any?
Thanks in advance
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NeilcodyNeilcodyMemberYAY!!..It WORKS!..I spent about 2 hours getting to know the box and working with the sounds. The waah sound is the easiest to make, and I finally was able to make the vowel “M” (momma), but the hard consonant sound of “K or C”(Call) they are tough to make. Keeping the tongue off of the hose opening is tricky too, when that happens, sound traveling up the hose is blocked out. Technique will come with practice I am sure. Yea, I was workin on Mindbender and watched the artist up on you tube. I noticed the hose, in relation to his microphone was at about a 40 degree angle and protruding past the head of the mic about 2 to 3 inches. I experimented with opening my throat to get a deep gutteral sound and played with that a while, now, today, which began last night, I am having a case of larengitis FFS! The hose was not new, but had soaked thoroughly in bleach water. Maybe it was a coincidence. I did read that a good practice would be to lightly spray the hose end with a bit of Listerine and tieing it into a sandwich baggie (we’ve all got those lying around don’t we?) to keep it fairly sterile and so bacteria won’t grow in the tube between uses.
Aside from the real throat issue, the Electro-Harmonix Golden Throat(1) will now take its place in my pedal lineup consisting of, (from the guitar to the amp) Boss TU-2 tuner, 3-knob Fender Blender, DOD FX-57 , Ibanez TS-7 tube screamer and lastly Ibanez AD-9 delay. My wish list is to add a volume pedal and a wah-wah. Amp is a mid 70’s Bandmaster Reverb through vintage Fender cabs 2-15’s and 2-12’s sweetening the sound of a vintage ’72 Tele, Maple neck/Natural-Wht pkgd. Thanks for all the help.
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NeilcodyNeilcodyMemberGot it..I see it now…half blind here…and thanks for the useful links…I think I got my answer …now I am ready to hook it up to see if it works and give it the old smoke test. An instructor once told me that everything electrical runs off of smoke and if you don’t believe me, just let the smoke out of an electrical component and see if it still works…LOL
I read the caveats about excessive load on the amp head and the ohms and proper grounding. The light bulb on the unit, should it be faint or bright while using the unit? Thanks again. PeaceNeilcodyMemberIf I had found this forum post first, I wouldn’t have had to duplicate the question…If there is a search posts box, I couldn’t find it…..peace…Neilcody
NeilcodyMemberYou posted that you got a Golden Throat, I picked one up yesterday, but I am unsure how to hook it up. This is the Original GT, It has 2 phono jacks, one labeled amp, and one labeled speaker, a light bulb and a hose and a switch. I have been told a couple of ways to hook it up and am now confused. I don’t want to blow up my amp.
One person said to plug the guitar into the box and use it inline like a regular pedal. Another says, put the unit between the amp head and the speaker cabinet which sounds like it might be the correct way. Of all of the vintage pedals on this site, The Golden Throat(first model) has no PDF or schematics or hookup instructions that I could find. Rocky Mtn. Way and Mindbender rehersal will have to wait for now…Please HELP.
Thanks in advance,
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