Dan Coggins becomes co-Director of new Lovetone FX Ltd

October 25, 2026 · 1 sources

Dan Coggins announced on 25 October 2026 that he is now a co-Director of the new Lovetone FX Ltd, 18 years after leaving the original Lovetone business¹. The announcement appears in a dated post on his Coggins Audio site¹.

Coggins writes that he co-founded the original Lovetone effect pedals brand in 1995 and designed all of its circuits, and that he left that company in 2008¹. He ran a manufacturing and repair business called Dinosaural between 2002 and 2019, and formed Coggins Audio Ltd in 2018 to take over from Dinosaural officially as of 1 April 2019¹. Since August 2020 he has worked as the Analog Design Engineer for Redbeard Effects and Thorpy FX¹.

The post gives no details of the new company's products, staffing, ownership or launch plans beyond Coggins's directorship¹. It also does not state what the new Lovetone FX Ltd's relationship to the original Lovetone brand will be¹.

The same page covers Coggins's current Dinosaural line. The Cogmeister, launched in 2022, is described as a triple boost/overdrive that supersedes the discontinued Tube Bender and OPA-101 pedals with a new Drive circuit, bookended by an input treble booster called Push and an output midrange booster called Solo¹. Sections of the Cogmeister have been released as stand-alone pedals: the 3rd Law Booster is identical to the Push section, the Dan Solo booster/drive is identical to the Solo section, and the Hypoid Drive overdrive is identical to the central Drive section¹. The page lists the 3rd Law and Dan Solo as discontinued, to be sold only while remaining stock lasts, and announces the Hypoid Drive as new¹. No US prices are given¹.