Simon Jarret's ___KINGSLEY AMPLIFIERS ___Version 3 Overdrives

KINGSLEY   

Tube overdrive pedals made for those tonally 

anal about tone, 😇.

I am seriously considering about getting the 

$435.00 USD Minstrel.

NOTE: pedals at 48:00

OVERDRIVE- MASATONE EFFECTIFIERS Hard Rock Machine II ___NEW ___MIAB w/tube

$280.00 USD

Masatone Effectifiers

Hard Rock Machine II

A small on-line Japanese maker that at the moment appear to have just 

2 pedals. This is version 2, the first was introduced 7 years ago. It is their take on a Marshall JTM45 and features using a 12AX7 tube, correctly running on a charge pump to run at a high current. The layout is Volume, Gain Mids, and Edge/highs. A toggle voices the unit for 3 gain stages. 

  

           CONCLUSION __

Its hard not to like in spite of being a bit dark. 

It lacks some bite and sparkle. Even so it is 

damn impressive

OVERDRIVE- SILKTONE Green Hell ___NEW___ Tube Screamer clone with a ...

$200.00 USD

silktone _____  

  GREEN HELL   

The intention was not to reinvent it but to set it to its sweet spot and add some serious life and expression by using an expander circuit to punch 

up the whole sound. The layout is of course Volume, Tone and Gain 

with a toggle to add levels of expansion. 

     CONCLUSION ___

The secret sauce is the Expander. An expander is the opposite to a Compressor it pushes up not squeeze down. Think of it as giving 

poke to every click of your pick on a string.

That said all that poke turns it nearly into Fuzz. If you are looking 

more to this pedal as a transparent booster as in a Stevie Ray 

Vaughn thing this is NOT it. Get the $200.00 USD KingTone Soloist.

     

OVERDRIVE- OVALTONE Fat Plexi ___NEW ___MIJ ... sounds great!

$210.00 USD

 Ovaltone   GUITAR EQUIPMENT

F·A·T  PLEXI 

Made in Japan by a small company with a dozen assorted dirt pedals and some Pickups & Asc.

The pedal is a take on a Marshall Plexi dialed into a crunch 

sound. 

The layout is Volume, Gain, Bass, Mids, Treble and a Boost.

     CONCLUSION __

It has a nice balzy punch & good sustain. It is going for 

a crunch & there is lot of definition. 

Marshalls own 1959 does this & more for $160.00 USD. 

Although it focuses on higher gain the Tone City Golden 

Plexi is worthy of anyone's attention. It is $60.00 USD. 

 

REVERB/DELAY- GFI SYSYEM Solis Ventus .... Nerds or the Nosy

GFI SYSTEM

$550.00 USD

 S O L I S V E N T I S     

This unit takes no prisoners, LOL. It covers all the basics and no end of 'Stat Wars Only'. That said it 

is much more user friendly than units that do 

half as much.

      CONCLUSION __

In the real world it demands a leaning curve 

too demanding for many of use. Me included. That said just like a Ferrari it is always nice to pull on the gearshift and push some buttons and switches. 

In other wards hear some presets. __

OVERDRIVE- TONE CITY Nashville ___NEW ___ or not ????

$65.00 USD

 

TONE CITY   

 Nashville 

If this is an obvious Nobels ODR 1 Then what happen to their 

Nobleman version? If it is v.2 why change the name? WTF!

The layout is Volume, Tone and Bass Cut/high pass filter.

            

      CONCLUSION __

Nobels make the ODR Mini 2 for $80.00 USD 

which is not a lot more. Sooo....

                                 

OVERDRIVE- FULLTONE OCD 'Lux'___NEW ___Crunch & Lead channels

Fulltone  

   OCD 'Lux 

$300.00 USD

A classic in a dual pedal. The Crunch side from the original

v.1 and the classic lead side was what overtime was considered the best, the v.2 was an obvious choice and since has been generally though as the best. both have toggle for 

a second voice, both sides have a standard OCD layout of Volume, Tone and Gain and a toggle for the HP & LP sound.

            CONCLUSION __

The v.2 is arguably all one needs in a single pedal but with a separate boost even a Tube Screamer Circuit tuned to a SRV sound like the King Tone 

Solo would have been perfect.

BITCRUSHER- TURBULENT AUDIO Nyquist Bitcrusher___NEW___ musical fluctuance :-)

TURBULENT AUDIO

 NYQUIST 

$200.00 USD

What is it? Digital works in audio by recording tiny bits of sound 

and then playing them back in an instant stream. If there are 

too few then the playback has a noticeable gap of distortion. 

Chips of such low quality were first used primarily in talking 

toys like dolls.  

The layout helps explain. You get Volume. Slew which toggles on 

more degradation. Frequency chooses a narrow area like the highs 

or lows to be effected. Depth blends the clean with effect. 

A second foot switch triggers in a full on Glitch effect.

           CONCLUSION __

For most of us it is too crazy to use and if we wanted 

really weird then try a ring modulator it is somewhat 

similar but arguably more musically usable.

JHS 3 Series Bitcrusher is $100.00 USD & is as good