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Frantone Brooklyn Overdrive: Additive Harmonics

A 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


https://youtu.be/tfkdwiKZgrY

Frantone Brooklyn Overdrive: Additive Harmonics

Comments

Love the FranSMR.

OzRetrocomp

I know the owner of Menatone. He uses custom integrated circuits to prevent people from ripping off his guitar pedals.

Jac Goudsmit

I 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

You're so right. If it has your name on it - Do it right! Good luck to you!

Fran Blanche

Oh 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

I 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.

Awesome Fran! 😁 That FranTone shirt looks great. 😉

Really enjoyed the joy flowing from this video - From one of the all time greats... Wozniac etc...

Yaaaaay thank you Fran for making this video!!!!! So happy!!!

Martin Sona

This 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

Thanks 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.

It 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

Appreciate the video Fran! Love your pedals, they truly are second to none!

and in a very whispering voice : dooo waaatch it to the veerry eend

but please, for the non-electric guitar/musicians why is it refered to as a 'pedal'?

Like the overall (shirt?) - reminds me of the sales people in a local electronics store (Capitani ) in the 70s/80s


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