OVERDIVE- NUX Queen of Tone ____NEW____ Bluesbreaker & Klon in a Box

NUX| QUEEN of TONE 

$135.00 USD

Nux are the latest of the Chinese clone pedal makers to push their way into the mainstream.  Eight years ago they sold very few pedals under their own name but did well selling them under the Donner brand when all Donner mini pedals were all made by Mooer and the digital things were NUX. 

The analog pedals they made in the early days were very good probably because they spent more effort in getting a perfect match to the tone of the pedal they were cloning, not just the topography and a few are exceptional. They have re-released some as the Reissue series. The Chorus, Delay and Plexi Crunch are all on my board. Each is $60.00 USD and easily sound as good or better than many pedal $200.00 USD or
more. 

Since then it is hit or miss. They have had years of making digital gear long before others so they had an edge for a few years but young players with an engineering degree from the West have got into the industry so companies like JHS have closed the gap on price. These engineers and programmers being immersed in the culture that create Rock music have better 'ears' at what cuts it with the 'tone' and what is merely good hardware.

WHAT IS IT?

The Queen is their Horseman Klon and their Morning Star, a take on the
JHS Morning Glory which is the JHS version of a Marshall BluesBreaker pedal in the same enclosure.

Many knobs are shared so I will let the video take you through the confusion, LOL

CONCLUSION

I find 95% of the Klons do not sound like a real Klon. I also owned the Morning glory and was shocked that it too did not sound like the B.B. and worse still the extra gain made the pedal sound like crap. Other B.B. pedals often do not sound like a B.B. either but at least they have created their own very good transparent sound.

So this pedal to me is a combination of a clone of a crap JHS and a budget Klon when even the pricey Klons miss the bulls-eye.

I hate double pedals. Once you get a switcher pedal you no longer have practical access to both sides separately in a tune. Or to be blunt you bought the switcher to stop having to turn off one pedal before turning on the next. With Double pedals 9 times out of 10 you end up only using the better of the two. 

In a case where you have at choice at $60 each, you are better off buying them separate. 

Better still you can then buy two different brands. Keep in mind the only really big exception is the King 

of Tone. It has duplicate circuits for each side and you are basically setting up a Crunch and a Lead setting.

the fine print

Note: The pedal was released today and this is the only video on the planet. In the video the pedal is going through a Marshall set to Crunch. My point is it is using the pedal as a booster. In short I own a Marshall Plexi I can make any crap pedal sound good just by turning up the volume high, even better if I turn the gain low. In other words what we get to hear might even sound better on a $30 Tube Screamer. 

Put the Marshall on clean and set the volume on the pedal to be same loudness on as it is turned off so 'ALL' the sound is coming from the pedal and surprise. The difference is night and day. That's how I test a pedal if it sounds killer when I do that it goes on my board.