For whatever reason I thought to pop open my Holy Grail today and look inside. I was pleased to see that it’s a 3dpt switch and that it looks nice inside. I was a little shocked for whatever reason at the number of surface mount parts. I’m not modding that pedal much!
What I did see that I felt was somewhat shocking however, was the PCB, which had, “Listen to Cookie Galore” written right in the middle of it.
I googled “Listen to Cookie Galore” and I couldn’t find that anyone else had noticed this on the PCB.
All i could find was Cookie Galore’s mp3 page.
I did a bit more searching to find a link between EH and cookie galore. I found this, on EH’s site, which is Cookie Galore’s soundclips using a Holier Grail.
Still, it’s odd that EH put this in one of their pedals.
I wonder what’s going to be in my Russian Green Big Muff when I open it in a few minutes…
UPDATE: John at EH got back in touch with me:
Hi Dave,
Thanks for noticing the Cookie Galore easter egg in
the Holy Grail. I work at EH and I’m in Cookie Galore
so that’s how the connection happened.I designed all of the Grails including the new one:
the Holy Grail Plus which will start shipping
tomorrow.What do you think of your Holy Grail? Did you have a
chance to listen to any of the Cookie Galore songs?Thanks,
John
We continued on and had a conversation about his band, surface mount soldering/design (what most of the Holy Grail is), AES 2007, and tiny gain drop that can be induced when the pedal is activated.
Just found your article. The link here is that John Pisani, alias Johnny Galore of Cookies Galore, is the designer of the EH Holy Grail pedal and several others.
I just found this myself, and googling it, I found your site
My holy grail acts very microphonic – you tap it, and the tap is very audible through the amp. I opened it up to see what I could do about it and the surface mounted components were daunting although from a reliability, and cost standpoint I can see why it would be done this way.
Everything looks fine, except the level pot seemed loose. Tightened this up and hopefully we’re back to normal at practise
I’m wondering if your jacks/cables are microphonic? The HG hasn’t given me these problems, and certainly not compared to a spring reverb.
i found that on the pcb of my EH Deluxe Memory Boy