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About DinosauralDan Coggins initially 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 for a time.Dan is a qualified electronic engineer, BBC trained, with many years of "hands-on" experience. He also plays guitar, and is a life long music fan. In 1989 he graduated from Plymouth Polytechnic with an HND in Electronics, where his final year project was a digitally controlled guitar strobe tuner (which somehow still works to this day and is still accurate). From his early teenage experiments with valve radiograms and guitars and home made fuzz boxes, tremolo and wah-wah pedals, Dan used these when playing in his school and college bands and went on to write several DIY guitar pedal articles for the ETI and Electronics in Action magazines in England in the mid-90’s. In early 1995 Dan Coggins left his BBC engineering post and co-founded Lovetone® with Vlad Naslas. Their first product was the Meatball™, which was initially conceived as "a big envelope follower with 10 knobs". Dan designed the circuitry for all the Lovetone products, including the Meatball. A successful guitar effects pedals manufacturer, Lovetone has created and sold many high quality and innovative analogue effects boxes to musicians in all corners of the world. Dan left the Lovetone business after 13 years in March 2008. Dan has since collaborated with his friend (and tube amp mentor) David Petersen on some DIY pedal kit articles for the UK "Guitar and Bass" magazine, including the "Fuzzmania!" and the "Paranormal" Compressor. Dan has performed repairs on all kinds of guitar pedals for Charlie Chandlers' "Guitar Experience" shop, and has worked for Bartington Instruments, Oxon (Magnetometers) as an R&D Engineer during 2007. He is currently working for a local company that make fast LASER and X-Ray pulsers. |
