First Frantone Pedal Prototype - 1994
Added 2020-09-18 22:55:37 +0000 UTCThe first in my new PedalMom series of videos about - well, Pedals of course! This one is all about the first one I made, the prototype for the first Frantone pedal which was called the Fuzzywuzzy. Enjoy!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn8phH0k5HI
2021-06-02 05:02:44 +0000 UTCWhen was the 9V battery manufactured? Thank you.
2020-09-24 20:31:55 +0000 UTCSo "Pedal Mom" is your CB handle?
Jason Olshefsky
2020-09-21 17:59:17 +0000 UTCThought I heard a little Children of the Sun.
Gilbert Pfaff
2020-09-20 04:16:09 +0000 UTCGod, I remember all those parts, I think. Is that dark blue cylindrical capacitor a non-polarized electrolytic? Radio Shack used to sell one that looked just like that, and I think I still have one somewhere. Would a pair of 1N4148 diodes connected in opposite directions across the inputs of the LM386 be sufficient to limit voltage spikes without compromising audio? I'm no engineer, but I'm a tinkerer, and I've seen that used to limit audio levels before. Maybe even a neon bulb across the inputs as cheap static discharge protection?
Circuitmike
2020-09-20 03:31:28 +0000 UTCThats awesome seeing where it all started! Thanks for the play demo as well, it sounds really good considering it's all of 2 LM386's some odd effects can be be had hooking stuff up via the gain on pins 1&8 if I remember my 90's tinkering well. Interesting re Alpha pots over a long term, the early ones I have still seem to be working too, but I've always discounted them as "shit" but maybe I was too critical.
Anton
2020-09-20 00:03:47 +0000 UTCI remember those radio shack parts đ I remember the battery punch card and get one free battery after 10 punches and all the radio shack battery displays when you walked into the store. đ
2020-09-19 20:11:15 +0000 UTCDoesn't Radio Shack smell like a cell phone store now? :-( Love the pickguard! Great to hear that pedal too - Loving my Brooklyn and Peachfuzz - they haven't left my pedalboard yet.
2020-09-19 17:56:45 +0000 UTCIt is nice to hear you play a bit.
William Alsing
2020-09-19 00:45:19 +0000 UTCWonderful Fran! Great seeing the Fuzzy Wuzzy, but superlative to see and hear you playing. Loved the little tube ditty at the end. Brilliant stuff!
2020-09-19 00:32:28 +0000 UTCWonderful! Would you mind doing a second video on this pedal that explains the theory of operation? I don't know anything about pedals, but I do have background in electronics and I'm wondering if its basically the first opamp overdriving the input of the second opamp, with a variable resistor in the gain feedback path of one of them to get the tone control? Thanks!
Jon M Dhuse
2020-09-19 00:03:19 +0000 UTCThat smell. Truly one-of-a-kind odor... and I recall when radio shack would give away their low-grade 9-volt batteries for free. Mid 80s. One per visit or something like that. :)
Peter Voss
2020-09-18 23:40:34 +0000 UTCMore guitar face, please!
David Peaker
2020-09-18 23:20:34 +0000 UTC
