Frantone Brooklyn Overdrive: Additive Harmonics
Added 2019-11-12 00:00:19 +0000 UTCA Frantone Video? You asked for it - so You Got It! In this one I go over one of my prototypes and explain a bit about my history with distortion pedals..... with a little demonstration. Enjoy!
My lecture on design at Brown University - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDRJziCxbpo
My lecture about Frantone and Entrepreneurship at the University of the Arts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbqqRXcDgco&t=189s
My Q&A at U-Arts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tLuZf3cZ_4
Get a Frantone Brooklyn Overdrive - http://frantone.com/brooklyn.html
Comments
Love the FranSMR.
OzRetrocomp
2019-11-12 21:38:34 +0000 UTCI know the owner of Menatone. He uses custom integrated circuits to prevent people from ripping off his guitar pedals.
Jac Goudsmit
2019-11-12 21:34:39 +0000 UTCI can't play guitar, but I'd have a Frantone pedal in my house just as an ornament based on the quality of the finish. They're beautiful objects.
OzRetrocomp
2019-11-12 21:32:25 +0000 UTCYou're so right. If it has your name on it - Do it right! Good luck to you!
Fran Blanche
2019-11-12 13:41:34 +0000 UTCOh the ASMR, not that it does anything for me particularly but made me laugh, and I enjoy a surprise bonus at the end. Loving the new end credit music as well Fran.
Leigh
2019-11-12 13:19:02 +0000 UTCI get it about Frantone. I am having the same issues with my idea for a MIDI controller/sequencer. I have a working prototype but I changed the chipset because I wanted better performance, people said I was crazy and should just release it as is to hit the market. That's not how I work, I personally need to be satisfied before anyone hands over their hard earned cash. Same with the enclosure, it has to be die-cast and I built a CNC milling machine just to mill out the controls and text etc. Again people asked why didn't I paint it? Why don't I silkscreen? I didn't want that, I wanted a raw aluminium finish and for nothing to rub off. Sure its a lot harder and expensive to do but my name will be on the machine not anyone else's, the buck stops at me.
2019-11-12 12:24:10 +0000 UTCAwesome Fran! 😁 That FranTone shirt looks great. 😉
2019-11-12 05:10:19 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed the joy flowing from this video - From one of the all time greats... Wozniac etc...
2019-11-12 02:52:18 +0000 UTCYaaaaay thank you Fran for making this video!!!!! So happy!!!
Martin Sona
2019-11-12 02:26:53 +0000 UTCThis video is fantastic! The Brooklyn is my all-time favorite sounding pedal, the harmonics add width and depth to the tone that nothing else delivers.
Inventor Pardue
2019-11-12 00:59:17 +0000 UTCThanks Fran. I can attest to the finish. My Brooklyn Drive is stomped many times a day and the finish is still going strong. :D While I wish you'd make more pedals I can understand the desire to move on. That said, if my Brooklyn Drive ever breaks I'll send it to you for repair. I don't expect it will break though. It's made of tough stuff.
2019-11-12 00:54:35 +0000 UTCIt goes back to the 1940's.... the first pedals were borrowed from organs and controlled volume and tone by tilting them with your foot. Lap steel players like Speedy West adopted them and Nashville guitar players too. Then Glenn Snoddy invented the underbiasing fuzztone and since those days every foot operated effect has been called a pedal. https://youtu.be/8Jv0bEAGgjw
Fran Blanche
2019-11-12 00:46:59 +0000 UTC
