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About DinosauralI founded Dinosaural® in 2002 to provide exclusive warranty repair and technical support for all Lovetone products as well as other brands of classic analogue electronic music equipment.In early 1995 I left my BBC engineering post and co-founded Lovetone® with Vlad Naslas. Our first product was the Meatball™, which was initially conceived as "a big envelope follower with 10 knobs". I designed the circuitry for all eight Lovetone products, including the Meatball. Vlad did the enclosures and graphics as well as the marketing in the early years, and we both came up with the overall concepts and "vision". My Dinosaural® "Tube Bender™" (a successful, if relatively rare, transistor overdrive pedal design with authentic valve sound - not currently available) was something I designed originally in collaboration with David Petersen - as part of a series of kits (mostly otherwise Dave's own designs, but I helped with the PCB's) for the UK "Guitar and Bass" magazine. The Tube Bender™was manufactured, marketed and sold via Dinosaural between 2003 and 2006. I did (and currently, still do) amp repairs, as well as repairs and modifications to lots of classic FX pedals and Echo machines, and quite a few of those via CCGX (Charlie Chandlers' esteemed shop in Hampton Wick). Lovetone® created and sold many high quality and innovative analogue guitar effects boxes to musicians in all corners of the world. I finally left the Lovetone® business after 13 years in March 2008, and from January 2009 have stopped working on Lovetone products altogether owing to changes in circumstances. I am now a family man, pursuing a full-time career as an employee working with both analogue and digital electronics. Since winding down Dinosaural to a relative "tick-over" in early 2007, I have worked on the design and test of Magnetometers and also with fast, LASER and high-voltage X-Ray pulser circuits, including PCB design. And I'm loving playing the guitar again after years of using it mailnly as a "test generator"! I'd like to personally thank all of my customers over the years for being great to deal with. I am sorry to disappoint those who want(ed) their Lovetone boxes fixed, but I had to "draw a line in the sand" in the end. Who knows, I may yet one day resurface in "guitar effects land"....but please don't hold your breath! Dan Coggins Wantage Updated: September 24, 2009 |
