Dan Coggins' Cogmeister supersedes Tube Bender and OPA-101 pedals

April 5, 2024 · 2 sources

Dan Coggins has described the Cogmeister, his triple boost/overdrive, as the successor to two discontinued Dinosaural pedals. In builder's notes carried by Delicious Audio on April 5, 2024, Coggins wrote that the Cogmeister "supersedes both the earlier, now-discontinued 'Tube Bender' and 'OPA-101' pedals with a new 'Drive' circuit"¹. The same wording appears on his site².

The pedal combines three circuits, named from left to right Push, Drive and Solo, each with its own footswitch¹. Coggins describes the arrangement as bookending the Drive circuit with an input treble booster (Push) and an output midrange booster (Solo)²¹. According to Delicious Audio, the bottom row holds the EQ knobs for each channel, with a 3-way toggle on the Drive controlling the curve of its EQ, and the top row sets volume and gain for each channel¹. The publication says the three circuits were tuned to work together, providing three gain stages that can be combined¹.

Coggins dates the pedal's launch to 2022. Delicious Audio reports that he built the model under the Dinosaural name starting in 2012, after closing Lovetone in 2008¹. Coggins writes that he ran Dinosaural from 2002 to 2019 and that the brand now exists as part of Coggins Audio Ltd, the company he formed in 2018²¹. He also states that he has worked since August 2020 as Analog Design Engineer for Thorpy FX²¹.

Delicious Audio describes the Cogmeister as "the flagship drive pedal designed by Dan Coggins, the engineer best known for the now rare and sought-after Lovetone Pedals," and reports that he called it his "Gain Masterpiece"¹.

Neither page gives a price or a US availability date for the Cogmeister. It sits among the overdrive pedals covered here.