Golden Era – Real-time Lo-Fi machine

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1876: Thomas Alva Edison presents the first phonograph on wax cylinder. 1887: Emile Berliner presents the gramophone on shellac disk. 1963: Philips introduces the Compact Cassette which, together with the 1969 MicroCassette, made it universally easy to capture sound events with a miniaturized, lightweight device. It took decades of research before every analog medium achieved excellent audio performance. Before then, every audio recorder had some peculiarities that marked an era: from the "mechanical" response full of noise and scratch of the first phonographs, to the low bandwidth available and with a nasal and floating voice of Compact Cassettes, especially if recorded / listened by cheap or worn devices. Golden Era was created to faithfully reproduce the "non fidelity" of these audio recorders at the time of their introduction, taking you to other eras of analog audio recording: the Golden Eras.

Golden Era “Reverse” – Real-time Lo-Fi machine

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The classical Golden Era Lo-Fi machine comes now in a very limited edition (5 pcs.) to celebrate the end of the year 2023, the year where we sadly had to discontinue the pedal because of the lack of vintage parts and the product industralization not compatible anymore with the market demand. A very fine golden satin painting has been used for the finish and the brown black printing to achieve the "reversed" aesthetic of the pedal. The electronics uses the classical Printed Circuit Boards Rev.A3 but with some important upgrades: we replaced the modern BC549 transistors with a prime selection of BC114 vintage New Old Stock transistors. In addition, special selection also for BBD MN3207, a enhanced NOISE generator and Wima polyester input capacitor. Each minimal sound feature of the pedal has been finely calibrated and adjusted to achieve the best performances ever from a Golden Era machine.

THE SMILIN’GHOST- Dynamic Percussion Tremolo

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Renato is frightened by the ectoplasm that suddenly emerges from the fireplace, but you must not be afraid: it is a good ghost with a nice flickering laugh. The Smilin’ Ghost is a Dynamic Tremolo Percussion, flagship of TEFI projects, developed after months of research and experimentation. It uses an optocoupler like in vintage amplifiers driven by our modern wide-range LFO (from 0.7Hz to 15Hz). The special proprietary circuit “TRFI”, totally analog, allows to control the activation of the modulation depending on the dynamics of the instrument’s execution: in this way it is possible to decide, with the energy impressed on the notes played, the activation or not effect. The two types of modulations are:

• Tremolo: gives a uniform modulation, driving the opto-isolator with a sine or square wave.
• Percussion: The envelope is a percussive type; using a lever-switch you can decide between fast and slow decay.

The LFO speed can also be controlled with an externally connectable expression pedal. The T.R.F.I control can also be activated with remote control.