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Description

Unlock the full potential of your guitar with the King Tone Blues Power overdrive pedal, a tool designed to elevate your sound with precision and clarity. Engineered for both versatility and simplicity, this pedal is perfect for guitarists seeking a range of tonal options without sacrificing quality. Whether you're in a small club or on a big stage, the Blues Power offers an exceptionally dynamic response that reacts to your playing nuances, ensuring that each note sings with authenticity.

The King Tone Blues Power is crafted to provide a smooth overdrive that enhances your guitar's natural tone. Its unique circuit design allows for an impressive range of overdrive, from subtle warmth to aggressive crunch, making it suitable for blues, rock, and beyond. With intuitive controls for Gain, Volume, and Tone, you can easily dial in your perfect sound. This pedal also features a high-quality buffer, ensuring that your signal remains strong and clear, maintaining the integrity of your guitar’s voice throughout your pedal chain.

Key Features:

  • Designed for a wide range of overdrive tones, from subtle to aggressive
  • Intuitive controls: Gain, Volume, and Tone
  • Dynamic response that enhances playing nuances
  • High-quality buffer to preserve signal strength
  • Suitable for various music styles, including blues and rock
  • Premium build quality for durability and reliability

Product specs

Brand King Tone Guitar
Model Blues Power Boost/Overdrive
Finish Black
Year 2010s
Categories Overdrive and Boost Pedals
Pedal Format Standard

FAQs

What type of overdrive circuit is the King Tone Blues Power based on?

The King Tone Blues Power is based on the Timmy overdrive circuit, known for its transparent sound and dynamic response, making it suitable for various musical styles.

Can the King Tone Blues Power be used as both a boost and an overdrive pedal?

Yes, the King Tone Blues Power functions as both a boost and an overdrive pedal, allowing you to enhance your guitar signal with clean boost or add overdrive for a richer tone.

How does the King Tone Blues Power affect the guitar's tone?

The King Tone Blues Power offers a transparent overdrive that retains the natural tone of your guitar, adding clarity and dynamics without excessive coloration.

Is the King Tone Blues Power suitable for live performances?

Yes, the King Tone Blues Power is designed for live performances, providing reliable boost and overdrive options that enhance your sound on stage.

What power supply is required for the King Tone Blues Power pedal?

The King Tone Blues Power requires a standard 9V DC power supply, commonly used with most guitar pedals, ensuring easy integration into your pedalboard setup.

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Reviews

PROS

  • Excellent for Texas blues and similar genres

  • Can replace multiple pedals, offering great versatility

  • Works well as a preamp and booster

  • Ideal for achieving cranked black panel tones

CONS

  • Produces a high noise floor, especially with single coils

  • Loses openness and sounds compressed, affecting dynamics

  • Becomes muddy when adjusting guitar's volume knob for gain levels

  • Not suitable for rhythm guitarists who need dynamic range

Owner Insights

We analyzed real musician discussions from forums and Reddit to find what players love, question, and tweak about King Tone Blues Power.

User experience

  • The pedal excels with single coil pickups, particularly with Strats and Teles, but might lack character with hotter pickups or humbuckers.

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  • The Blues Power pedal provides a unique experience that makes players feel like they've achieved their dream tone, particularly when paired with tube amps.

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  • Owners describe the Blues Power as imparting character to an amp's tone, rather than having a distinct sound of its own.

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  • Some owners find the pedal indispensable, with multiple units used across different pedalboards for its versatility.

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Features and functionality

  • Capable of transforming from a clean boost to a fuzz-like disintegration, offering significant headroom especially at 18V.

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  • The pedal has a MOSFET boost stage combined with a JFET boost stage, reportedly based on the ROG Peppermill circuit.

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  • The 3-way selector switch offers tonal versatility, transforming the output from thin to full, and enabling a sharp drive that can evolve into fuzz-like tones.

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Use cases and applications

  • The pedal can emulate cranked Fender amp tones at lower volumes, making it suitable for players who can't always play loud.

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  • When combined with a Kingsley Minstrel, it offers a "core" tone with subtle slapback delay and spring reverb, especially effective with Ron Ellis 50/60s pickups in a Strat.

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  • Adding a univibe pedal can enhance the pedal's performance, achieving a tone reminiscent of Hendrix's "Machine Gun."

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Comparisons

  • Some owners find it too transparent when paired with high-quality tube amps, suggesting it might be better suited for enhancing lower-end amps.

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  • The Blues Power is compared to the Jan Ray and Timmy pedals, with some users associating its sound with a Blackface Super amp vibe.

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  • One user found the Blues Power more satisfactory than the Duellist's Bluesbreaker channel, highlighting better responsiveness and tonal range.

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Setup and maintenance

  • Users with amps heavy on bass, like a Blues Jr. with a Cannabis Rex speaker, report difficulty dialing in desired tones, suggesting amp selection is crucial.

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See how Joey Landreth uses King Tone Blues Power

Joey Landreth

Singer, Guitarist

The Bros. Landreth

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Visible in this February 3, 2020 Instagram post.

See how Ariel Posen uses King Tone Blues Power

Ariel Posen

Singer, Guitarist

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In this clip from Ariel's Instagram, a King Tone Blues Power can be seen underneath the top deck of his Schmidt Array pedalboard.

See how Ángel Parra uses King Tone Blues Power

Ángel Parra

Guitarist, Composer

Los Tres

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En este reel de Instagram durante un ensayo para el día del musico se ve que en una de sus pedalboards usa uno.

See how Chris Tapp uses King Tone Blues Power

Chris Tapp

Guitarist

The Cold Stares

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In this video Chris Tapp grabbed his real-deal ’52 Gibson goldtop (running through a Kingtone Blues Power pedal into a ’65 Fender Super Reverb) to do tasty bits from “Got No Right,” a song from new The Cold Stares album, “Voices.”

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