Tefi Vintage Lab is pleased to welcome you to our family. We hope you
enjoy using our new Golden Era real time lo-fi machine. Feel free to
get in touch for any suggestions or clarifications as to how you might
best use the effect. Play music and enjoy using our products!
Golden Era - Real-time Lo-Fi Machine
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 deca-
des of research before every analog medium achieved excellent au-
dio performance. Before then, audio recorders had some peculiari-
ties that marked an era: from the “mechanical” noise and scratch of
the first phonographs, to the low fidelity and nasal characteristics of
Compact Cassettes, especially if recorded / listened by cheap or worn
devices. Golden Era was created to faithfully reproduce the “non fide-
lity” of these audio recorders at the time of their introduction, taking
you to other eras of analog audio recording: the Golden Eras. Golden
Era was born from an idea of James Edward Bagshaw, of the band
Temples. Transformed into reality by TEFI vintage lab. James always
loved the character of vintage recordings and dreamt of a pedal that
could create this in real time. The Golden Era pedal morphs sound
into a bygone era; an era of analogue recording, where unintentional
peculiarities and imperfect machines created mesmerising, unique
sound palettes. The Golden Era will turn any sound coming from a
guitar, synthesizer or modern recording into a analog-voiced sound.
Press the footswitch and enjoy your journey through the ages.
GOLDEN ERA Operating Manual
www.tefivintagelab.it
Dimensions
Output impedance
Lo cut
Filter Range
Signal switching
Supply voltage/Current absorption
Power connection/ground type
External pedal for “Warped
Sound” SPEED control
Any expression pedal with 50-
100 kOhm potentiometer
Chassis
Weight
Input impedance
120x95x35 mm
150 Ohm
100 Hz
1.5-3.5 kHz
True-bypass
9VDC/20mA
Negative tip/negative ground
Hammond, aluminium die-cast
380gr.
400 kohm
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
