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First Frantone Pedal Prototype - 1994

🕑 Added 2020-09-18 22:55:37 +0000 UTC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn8phH0k5HI

When was the 9V battery manufactured? Thank you.

Jason Olshefsky

So "Pedal Mom" is your CB handle?

Gilbert Pfaff

Thought I heard a little Children of the Sun.

Circuitmike

God, 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?

Anton

Thats 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.

I remember those radio shack parts 😊 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. 😊

Doesn'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.

William Alsing

It is nice to hear you play a bit.

Wonderful Fran! Great seeing the Fuzzy Wuzzy, but superlative to see and hear you playing. Loved the little tube ditty at the end. Brilliant stuff!

Jon M Dhuse

Wonderful! 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!

Peter Voss

That 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. :)