Simon from Kingsley here...thanks for the positive review! Have been watching some of your amp repair videos lately as it happens - great stuff. That particular Harlot was a custom version with the added 2nd footswitch and is the pre-cursor to what became the Harlot V3. Not that it matters, other than the off-set footswitch looks kind of silly! Look forward to watching more of your stuff going forward...Merry Christmas!
@@rickya3877 yep! this is the V2 Custom that was the predecessor to the current V3. I would prefer the more knob position like he does now, but no need to switch just for that.
Like you, I thought it was hype at first. I now own two Page pedals and I just ordered a Jester. They're the real deal and the build quality is better than most. They have a 6 to 12 month wait list on the pedals and something like a 2 year wait for their amps.
@@PsionicAudio I have a Page as well. I've know the owner of Kingsley for 20 years. He's the real deal. I have one of his now discontinued amps as well. You'd be impressed.
Good bit cheaper to purchase Kingsley Pedals directly from the manufacturer if you can wait it out. These are also on Reverb, but will cost a lot more from private sellers. They also make a cool preamp called the Squire 86 which has that super cool and unique EF86 Pentode. Thanks for the demo video!
Plate voltage is in line . Heater power consumption looks to me the bigger power user. The plate using about 9 volts at say 20 to 30 mil ( switched up to 180 volts at 2 or 3 ma total ) the heater eating 300 ma . The switching supplies generate all kinds of noise . Have scopes the voltage and there are spikes at a number switching freqs. I agree 1000% on using transformer over switching supplies when noise is important .
If people are binge watchin yer vids its becuz you feature cool and interesting gear and are completey forth coming about the build quality . And you are more than qualified to say so... Thats why i subd....happy holidays man
Good sounding pedal! Nice demo. You can hear exactly what it does with no rosy gauze making the picture sweeter. Sounds way better than a blackstar valve pedal I used to own.
The Kingsley owner & builder, Simon Jarret, guests on the video link below. He's a great player & does a nice job explaining, in relative layman's terms, several things related to guitar pickups & controls, pedal input impedances & capacitors, preamp tube biasing and such. Nothing you don't already know, but an interesting watch nonetheless. ruclips.net/video/pmUq8uK_AL8/видео.html
I've seen "tube overdrive pedals" run an LED to emulate orange tube glow, set behind a real tube. They weren't running proper power for a pre-amp tube to function optimally. This thing sounds legit. Thoughts on NuTube tech?
I haven't had a NuTube in, so all I know is what I've read. When it came out, ten years or so ago, we were told it would "change everything." It seems to be behind schedule. I would love it if someone invented a 12AX7 replacement that fit in a noval socket that sounded good. I'm sure people are working on it. My concern is that the companies who could afford the R&D haven't made a great tube amp in 40 years, so...
Switch mode power supplies are not really doublers per se, but they certainly can have a tendency to be excessively noisy. If you can keep the switching frequency above 40KHz they are usually not too bad, however sometimes that 40KHz can get divided down by factors of 2^x power or let us say 40,000/4 and 40,000 Hz/8 or even 40KHz/16 so now there is an audible + & - 10,000 Hz and 5000 Hz and 2500 Hz whine all layered together and if they drift there are all kinds of weird phasing issues too that really sound horrible. Plasma screen TVs were famous for cheap noisy SMP power supplies that wreaked havoc on ham radio equipment. You would need a 180 degree phase cancelation circuit to null out every SPMS affecting your equipment. I stole that circuit from MFJ, and then I modified it.
I started with multi-channel amps and no drive pedal. Played that way for years. Then went the "pedal platform" route. My favorite era, though is using my Orange Rockerverb with a Harlot on the clean channel. I got great cleans, cool compressed distortion on the drive channel and a very flexible overdrive. I wouldn't gig without some kind of drive pedal. Either for flavour or boost. Also, you gotta realise the tones we hear on albums very very often contain drive pedals.
What if you have a single channel amplifier? Even if you could get a decent distortion tone, a pedal allows you to get a pseudo 2nd channel on the fly. They can also mimic power tube breakup, for those times you can’t crank your amplifier.
I said Pin 7 when I meant Pin 8.
Dang it.
Pin 7 .. pin 8 ... whatever it takes ...
Simon from Kingsley here...thanks for the positive review! Have been watching some of your amp repair videos lately as it happens - great stuff. That particular Harlot was a custom version with the added 2nd footswitch and is the pre-cursor to what became the Harlot V3. Not that it matters, other than the off-set footswitch looks kind of silly! Look forward to watching more of your stuff going forward...Merry Christmas!
Thanks Simon. That is a really well made great sounding pedal.
And a lot of people accuse me of not liking ANYTHING... ;)
Thanks for the repair! Happy to have it back and cranked up again.
@@rickya3877 yep! this is the V2 Custom that was the predecessor to the current V3. I would prefer the more knob position like he does now, but no need to switch just for that.
That is one impressive pedal, and no horrible noises from the B+ generator. That is not easy. Kudos to Kingsley.
Really appreciate the follow up with some tones! Sounds great!
Like you, I thought it was hype at first. I now own two Page pedals and I just ordered a Jester. They're the real deal and the build quality is better than most. They have a 6 to 12 month wait list on the pedals and something like a 2 year wait for their amps.
I'm impressed with the little box.
I don't impress easily.
@@PsionicAudio I spoke with Simon at Kingsley last May and am on the waiting list for an amp. Back then, it was 7+ years.
@@PsionicAudio I have a Page as well. I've know the owner of Kingsley for 20 years. He's the real deal. I have one of his now discontinued amps as well. You'd be impressed.
Are you sure about the 2 year waitlist for the amp? LOL I am pretty sure it's like 7 if not alot more
Good bit cheaper to purchase Kingsley Pedals directly from the manufacturer if you can wait it out. These are also on Reverb, but will cost a lot more from private sellers. They also make a cool preamp called the Squire 86 which has that super cool and unique EF86 Pentode. Thanks for the demo video!
I have a Squire 86 and love it! I was tempted by Reverb but yeah, the prices…glad I went the waiting list route directly from Kingsley.
Plate voltage is in line . Heater power consumption looks to me the bigger power user. The plate using about 9 volts at say 20 to 30 mil ( switched up to 180 volts at 2 or 3 ma total ) the heater eating 300 ma . The switching supplies generate all kinds of noise . Have scopes the voltage and there are spikes at a number switching freqs. I agree 1000% on using transformer over switching supplies when noise is important .
Waiting for one of these bad boys to arrive in the post any day now. This was a great review and more excited than ever.
If people are binge watchin yer vids its becuz you feature cool and interesting gear and are completey forth coming about the build quality . And you are more than qualified to say so...
Thats why i subd....happy holidays man
they make very interesting amps, as well
Good sounding pedal! Nice demo. You can hear exactly what it does with no rosy gauze making the picture sweeter.
Sounds way better than a blackstar valve pedal I used to own.
Sounds pretty darn good
I'd say that is a pretty Spanky pedal!!! Thanks for walking us through it.
Just Ordered mine!
The Kingsley owner & builder, Simon Jarret, guests on the video link below. He's a great player & does a nice job explaining, in relative layman's terms, several things related to guitar pickups & controls, pedal input impedances & capacitors, preamp tube biasing and such. Nothing you don't already know, but an interesting watch nonetheless.
ruclips.net/video/pmUq8uK_AL8/видео.html
I've seen "tube overdrive pedals" run an LED to emulate orange tube glow, set behind a real tube. They weren't running proper power for a pre-amp tube to function optimally. This thing sounds legit. Thoughts on NuTube tech?
I haven't had a NuTube in, so all I know is what I've read. When it came out, ten years or so ago, we were told it would "change everything."
It seems to be behind schedule.
I would love it if someone invented a 12AX7 replacement that fit in a noval socket that sounded good. I'm sure people are working on it. My concern is that the companies who could afford the R&D haven't made a great tube amp in 40 years, so...
Switch mode power supplies are not really doublers per se, but they certainly can have a tendency to be excessively noisy. If you can keep the switching frequency above 40KHz they are usually not too bad, however sometimes that 40KHz can get divided down by factors of 2^x power or let us say 40,000/4 and 40,000 Hz/8 or even 40KHz/16 so now there is an audible + & - 10,000 Hz and 5000 Hz and 2500 Hz whine all layered together and if they drift there are all kinds of weird phasing issues too that really sound horrible. Plasma screen TVs were famous for cheap noisy SMP power supplies that wreaked havoc on ham radio equipment. You would need a 180 degree phase cancelation circuit to null out every SPMS affecting your equipment. I stole that circuit from MFJ, and then I modified it.
I think you and I are the only one's who play the Bullshit Card on Randall Smith, and his "engineering marvels"...
Cheers 🍻
What is a switch mode power supply?
Tube pedal > tooobe pedal
People shop with their eyes alot, shop with your ears, does it sound good ok then buy it.
I will never understand pedals other than modulation. Get an amp you love and be happy.
Or get an amp you love and make it even better with pedals you love?
I started with multi-channel amps and no drive pedal. Played that way for years. Then went the "pedal platform" route. My favorite era, though is using my Orange Rockerverb with a Harlot on the clean channel. I got great cleans, cool compressed distortion on the drive channel and a very flexible overdrive. I wouldn't gig without some kind of drive pedal. Either for flavour or boost. Also, you gotta realise the tones we hear on albums very very often contain drive pedals.
What if you have a single channel amplifier? Even if you could get a decent distortion tone, a pedal allows you to get a pseudo 2nd channel on the fly. They can also mimic power tube breakup, for those times you can’t crank your amplifier.
some people just want to hear what they want brain blockage problem
Just can't stay off that harlot eh?
Yuk yuk