King of Tone, is it that good?

hotpickups

kjdowd said:

4 jack. Hi gain red side. 

Cool. Just how I'd like it. Quite the idea of a second power out but could live without that I guess lol

Kylef

Just got my blue one through on Friday. 4 jack, hi gain red. I've had the KOT around 4 times, just as I was looking for another my name came up for one. I'll be keeping this one. 

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p437/Kylefarrell/My Pedals and Amps/DF9A6968-AED9-4946-BB43-A5CB33A9D7F2_zpsggjwyjrv.jpg

hotpickups

Kylef said:

Just got my blue one through on Friday. 4 jack, hi gain red. I've had the KOT around 4 times, just as I was looking for another my name came up for one. I'll be keeping this one. 

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p437/Kylefarrell/My Pedals and Amps/DF9A6968-AED9-4946-BB43-A5CB33A9D7F2_zpsggjwyjrv.jpg

Those 4 jack versions are more popular than I thought . Probably due to how many people are buying into the looper thang I guess?

octatonic

4 jack also gives you the ability to put the orange before the red side, which some people like.

hotpickups

octatonic said:

4 jack also gives you the ability to put the orange before the red side, which some people like.

I thought that was done with the internal DIP switches anyway?

octatonic

hotpickups said:

octatonic said:

4 jack also gives you the ability to put the orange before the red side, which some people like.

I thought that was done with the internal DIP switches anyway?

Which is more effort than switching around a cable.
Also, if you have high gain red side then you can't get the orange side to the same level of gain as the high gain red side,

ICBM

Isn't it just a really expensive way of buying two Marshall Bluesbreakers?

Gassage

It is a very transparent pedal. But it also can be a bit weedy because of that. I prefer the orange side as it happens.

Kylef

hotpickups said:

Kylef said:

Just got my blue one through on Friday. 4 jack, hi gain red. I've had the KOT around 4 times, just as I was looking for another my name came up for one. I'll be keeping this one. 

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p437/Kylefarrell/My Pedals and Amps/DF9A6968-AED9-4946-BB43-A5CB33A9D7F2_zpsggjwyjrv.jpg

Those 4 jack versions are more popular than I thought . Probably due to how many people are buying into the looper thang I guess?

I'm using a G2 at the moment, so the 4 jack is handy to have at the moment. 

TimmyO

ICBM said:

Isn't it just a really expensive way of buying two Marshall Bluesbreakers?

Pretty much. But they're cool. 

Actually how different are the MkII BB pedals than the originals? 

TimmyO

From the Analogman site (fwiw)

"A good friend of ours suggested the old Marshall Blues breaker pedal might work for Jim, so we found one on ebay and I had it sent to Jim who said it was pretty good. So I got another one on ebay and modified it quickly with some improved parts for a baseline test. I brought it up to Woodstock and Jim's sounded better, I was surprised! Then I opened Jim's up and saw that it was already modified heavily!! I thought he was playing a joke on me, but he just laughed, someone sold it on eBay like that. I tried those mods but didn't like them much, so we totally redid the circuit with different diodes, chips, capacitors, treble boost, modes- pretty much everything was changed. And of course the KOT is two pedal circuits in one box. So our KOT pedal is not much like, and does not sound much like a BB pedal anymore. Especially the clean or distortion modes are different, and the higher gain option changes it even more, making it more useful throughout the DRIVE knob range. We used the higher gain KOT circuit as the base for the Prince Of Tone which came out in 2012, and improved the DISTORTION mode also on the POT."

BBBlues

octatonic said:

hotpickups said:

octatonic said:

4 jack also gives you the ability to put the orange before the red side, which some people like.

I thought that was done with the internal DIP switches anyway?

Which is more effort than switching around a cable.
Also, if you have high gain red side then you can't get the orange side to the same level of gain as the high gain red side,

Im currently weighing up whether to go with 2 prince of tones over my KOT. You get ultimate flexibility that way with both the OD switches outside, and both "high gain".

hotpickups

Actually I am on the list (well it's free to do so) and my spec would be 4 jacks, second power out, High gain on the red side and the mode switch externalised. That's at the moment but I'm sure it'll change over the year or so left til I get contacted to pay

octatonic

BBBlues said:

octatonic said:

hotpickups said:

octatonic said:

4 jack also gives you the ability to put the orange before the red side, which some people like.

I thought that was done with the internal DIP switches anyway?

Which is more effort than switching around a cable.
Also, if you have high gain red side then you can't get the orange side to the same level of gain as the high gain red side,

Im currently weighing up whether to go with 2 prince of tones over my KOT. You get ultimate flexibility that way with both the OD switches outside, and both "high gain".

Personally, I think high gain red side gives you the most flexibility- do you really need two high gain circuits?

riscado

In my opinion it isn't a "transparent" pedal at all, it is a pedal that does it's own thing, which I really like. If it was "transparent" I probably wouldn't like it and wouldn't have bought it. It does add it's own sound to the amp, which is a bit of a sweet gnarling compressed and distorted sound, and is dynamic and adds to the existing sound of the amp rather then masking it.

DannyP

I HAZ ONE

DannyP

But realz ones have unicorn diodes or whatever.

hotpickups

John_P said:

rsvmark said:

I will let you know in about 3 months. 

John_P said:

I'm going to order another one over the weekend.   
I notice they now offer black, blue and white ones as well as the standard purple.    Tempted to get a black one this time, a shame they didn't offer the gold one again though.  

@john_p couldn't see any images on the analogman website. How did you find out?

The option only comes up in the order page.
It doesn't say if it's a limited edition or if that's now a standard option.  I'm torn between black and white. 

http://www.analogman.com/graphics/kotcolors2016b.jpg

I'd go for white personally

John_P

hotpickups said:

John_P said:

rsvmark said:

I will let you know in about 3 months. 

John_P said:

I'm going to order another one over the weekend.   
I notice they now offer black, blue and white ones as well as the standard purple.    Tempted to get a black one this time, a shame they didn't offer the gold one again though.  

@john_p couldn't see any images on the analogman website. How did you find out?

The option only comes up in the order page.
It doesn't say if it's a limited edition or if that's now a standard option.  I'm torn between black and white. 

http://www.analogman.com/graphics/kotcolors2016b.jpg

I'd go for white personally

Every time I look I change my mind but I like the purple as well.   A shame it won't let you order three so i could keep the one I like best lol

Wazmeister

riscado said:

In my opinion it isn't a "transparent" pedal at all, it is a pedal that does it's own thing, which I really like. If it was "transparent" I probably wouldn't like it and wouldn't have bought it. It does add it's own sound to the amp, which is a bit of a sweet gnarling compressed and distorted sound, and is dynamic and adds to the existing sound of the amp rather then masking it.

I must say I have found my to be completely transparent... 

@john_p ; man, that white one is lush !!