Make and model
Madbean DIY Aristocrat (KoT)
Description
Here is a set of profiles of an AM King of Tone clone. It's captured in all three modes – boost, overdrive and distortion. For each mode there is three tone settings (3, 5 and 7) to make it work better with different guitars and amps. And everything is captured with drive at 2,4 6 and 8. So that's 36 profiles all together. (For those that wish for captures with both sides on, I am sorry to say that the left side is not totally reliable at the moment, and the pedal is not mine, so I have no intention to stick a multimeter and soldering iron in there to fix it. So no captures of both sides on.) For the technical stuff, see at the end, but first, some history: Did you know that the King of Tone came about because during a concert with The Band, Rick Danko stepped on Jim Weiders TS-808 and destroyed the housing? So says Mike Piera – AnalogMike – himself. After the accident the circuit was rehoused in a TS9 encosure. But Jim Weider wanted something more open and less compressed, with lesser mids. Piera started working on a Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal, modifying the circuit, and he and Weider sent it back and forth between them, until the result was the first version of what we know as the King of Tone. And it was a massive success. It could be said that Analogman and the KoT is to the boutique pedal builder scene what Matchless and the DC30 is to the boutique amp builder scene. Anyway: Soon came the DIY-wave, and of course, the KoT quickly became one of the most sought after DIY projects. The pedal captured here, is from a Madbean project, and is named the Aristocrat. The KoT version cloned is v4, the double pedal we all have drooled over by our computers, the one with the four year waiting list that puts most folks off. No wonder the DIY clone projects came about... Now my band buddy and me started out building one pedal each, sourcing parts and all. For some reason I have forgot, I never finished mine. It is still somewhere inside our rehearsal space, but I have not seen it for quite a while. But my buddy finished his, and it has stayed on his pedalboard for most of the 11 years that has gone since he built it. And that pedal is profiled in this set. We have both played through a real KoT, and I think I can say it's pretty close, but I have never heard them side by side. Anyway: This is a more transparent, and less compressed pedal than a Tube Screamer. It is taken quite a bit away from it's Bluesbreaker origins, but it's still in the same ballpark. The point of the whole design, is that it is supposed to work great with any guitar, and any amp, making your amp sound like it's breaking up by itself, but at lower volumes. Now, does the KoT succeed in that, and do this clone and these profiles do it justice? Only one way to find out: Try it. Myself, I think it works great. I prefer the lower gain settings on all three modes. I don't think of it like clean boost, overdrive and distortion, but more like three different shades of overdrive (with no diode clipping, diodes clipping soft, diodes clipping hard). And it does work great with a lot of different amp profiles. One thing I can say, is that I had wished for a little less noise. That is probably due to the wiring in the pedal not being optimal (after all, we are amateur builders). I hope you find it is acceptable, though. Hope you'll have fun with this pack! TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Reamplevel is 12,1 dBu Reamped through a Palmer Trave Trained at 200 epochs ESR is from about 0,0005 (cleanest boost captures) to 0,008 (most driven distortion). I have planned to train the captures in feather and/or nano mode some time later, so watch out for another pack :-) Should you wish to support my work, that is possible @ www.buymeacoffee.com/tkvellen
License
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