THE KINGTONE SOLOIST : SRV TONE ENHANCED!
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Hey Guys!
Well, Jesse at KingTone has done it again. A new creation that has nailed the tone in my head!
Though he claims this is only the “string singer” side of the Duellist, I can say i hear a bit more magic within the “body” function.
Couple of points i want to make:
There really is no SRV tone secret. Its a cranked clean style amp, coupled with the intensity and precision of his playing.. and his message.
And Yes, I know this video is SRV lick heavy, but it really inspired me to play some Stevie-esque licks.
In the end, its a killer versatile overdrive, and as a plus, it allows you to get a big tone at low volume!
Hope you dig it!
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Thanks!
Peace!
The tone without the pedal is already very good. That cranked amp (and some tricks he knows with his amp) and a very nice sounding strat on top. And then he has some SRV licks molded into his brain and fingers, doesn't matter which pedal (ts9, ts808, this one .. other similar tube screamers) ... he will sound fricking good. But if this pedal also gives good tones at LOW volumes (or better than other tube screamers) well that would be something special. SRV tones at low volume = searching the unicorn.
Of course nicks tone with the amp alone is going to be good he’s an amp tech and owns more vintage Amps then I do lol. Jesse Daveys work really speaks for itself, some of the dual stage overdrives Kingtones has put out really can make a deluxe reverb reissue sound like a cranked vintage super reverb. What makes these stand out is the frequency range that they have. So many overdrives take that low end out. I like the boost that he makes and am happy running that into a ts10 or klon and then into my 64 vibroverb. It is funny though how people spend years chasing something and don’t realize how much volume it takes to get that particular sound going. Pre amp and power amp tubes really need to be cookin and the speaker needs to really be pushing air. All people need is a good blackface or tweed and lots of volume and something to just hit the front end a little more 👌🏽
@@keithremedy I'm actually looking for a pedal to help my clean Deluxe Reverb Reissue when I can't turn it up enough to where it starts to breakup on its own. Do you think the Heavy Hand side of the Duellist could take a clean Deluxe Reverb and give it some hair, for that slightly broken up Hendrix type clean base tone that I could then run my fuzz into, along with the String Singer side? I already tried to accomplish this with a Timmy pedal, but it was a bit harsh sounding, especially with the bright cap in the vibrato channel. I was thinking the voicing of the Duellist may work better with a Fender circuit.
Thanks!
@@xderiwx Hey, I have a 65 DRRI also and love it but had the same issue. I use a vox silk drive and set it to just before breakup, then hit it with a ts808hw and keeley blues driver. Sounds great and I just turn both pedals off for clean stuff.
Back in oh, I'd guess 1994 or so I randomly bought a CD by a UK-based band named The Hoax called 'Sound Like This' and thought there were alot of SRV tones on that record. Then The Hoax made a trip to the US and I caught them at Fleetwoods in DC and I was just fucking floored by what I saw and heard. (Fleetwoods was a short-lived high end club that 'the man' Mick Fleetwood himself had opended in a up-scale DC neighborhood...can't even remember where in DC that place was but Fleetwoods only lasted a couple of years.) The Hoax were an absolutely AMAZING band with two lead guitarists that played SRV licks and carried SRV tone like...well the man himself. I'll never forget that show. I instantly became a fan of Jesse Davey and ended up reaching out to him and we corresponded a little bit after that show. We even traded a couple of obscure SRV recordings back when I was amassing my collection of almost 700 live SRV recordings. He sent me a couple of live Hoax show recordings as well that I played to death. It's been a while since I heard his name until I watched this video this morning (thanks Nik). I didn't realize that he was the principal guy behind King Tone. I'm super glad to see that he's still making a living in the music industry, but damn that band was so fricking good that I can't help feel some pangs of melancholy that they didn't survive the long haul. They were soooo fucking good.
Wow awesome story. You have over 700 live SRV recordings? That’s amazing. I have to ask what do you think his best live performance or performances ( because I’m sure there are several that are debatable for the title of the best ) do you consider to be his best? I love the El Mocambo set but I’m sure there are plenty more I’ve haven’t heard as good or better. Recently I’ve been getting into a lot of SRV bootlegs that found here on UA-cam and there is some real gold out there.
I second Jordan on his question please 😊✌️
@@jordandangelo180 palladium 84
Its the only TS I have ever liked. After listening to Stevie for decades, this one that actually does it!
Sounds good. JD puts out some quality stuff. Honey Bee "Double Trouble" is still my favorite SRV pedal though. It's perfect imo.
And awesome playing as well ! Love to hear you and Tommy Kotana on stage together.
Tommy is a buddy and a great dude. He can always play something that inspires me to practice more haha
A smart move Very cool I like it darkened up Definitely SRV in a box
Hot Damn Nik! That tone! wow amazing tone and your playing was sweet.
👍🏼 mine arrived from Jesse few weeks ago too it an awesome pedal, Jesse is a star ! and Krystal !
Mine is being delivered tomorrow! Been waiting for so long...it’s gonna be a good day
And how was it?
Never apologize for one of your videos being "SRV Lick Heavy"! That's why we're here man! This might be your best tone to date honestly- just really, really, really good tone out of that Super. It's SUPER! Haha. Also- nitpicky I know- but that's a "toggle" switch on top. Dip switches are the little internal switches that you have to use a pen or pointy thing to move- or your fingernail... usually very small. Again- just great tone and playing here Nik- just great playing! You just inspired me to dial in my Duelist with my '67 Super Reverb to try to get that same tone! Watch out family- wake up!
Awesome pedal. Been anxiously waiting for this demo. Thanks Nik. It’s on my Christmas list now. I want one !!!
I finally found a store in Europe that has Jesse‘s pedals and bought the Blues Power and the Fuzz. I love the way they sound with my Strat but they blew me away when i used them with a les Paul. I’m really glad they sound great on both Strats and Les Pauls, they are not going back! Now you re teasing me again bro! :-D
Hey! Can this live with the blues power ? Do you use them together ? If so how do you set the blues power ? Thanks! Just subscribed and sharing with friends 🤙🏽🤙🏽
....you´re really great , tone , tone , tone .... thx for all the cool videos ....
Thank you!
Hey, love this demo. How does it cut in a live situation? I'm curious if it gets lost or sounds thin? Thanks dude!
It performs great in a live setting!
Awesome tone I have a question i have a super reverb at home bedroom volume. Would the soloist get me the srv tone at low volume. Either crank the gain on the pedal with the amp on 1. Or crank the amp and have the soloist volume low like the video. Also is thIs the best pedal in the range for this purpose. ? Thanks Russ.
The KINGTONE BLUES POWER! ITS A BOOST? OR AN EQ?!? headphones beware!
ua-cam.com/video/dbIOr3UUMSM/v-deo.html
Love the setup here Nick. The old Vox and Soloist sound great paired together with the Fender gear!
Bro I'm wearing like a $600 pair of headphones...I've been watching you for a pretty long time ever since Matt told his subs to come check you out.
I've always liked your tone it was pretty good(I can say from personal experience that having a good mid-to-late'60s"Vox Wah-Wah"pedal certainly doesn't do anything to harm your sound.I personally have one from the 1960s(The ones that came in the all aluminum chassis with the black paint that chips off all the time), either way I think my Vox wah is a G-Damn slammin' thing to have on the floor in front of me, especially when I'm the lead guy in a three-piece Texas Style Blues band.Other than that I've always used a MXR-EQ pedal just to give me a little bit of boost when I'm going to play a lead,stepping forward on stage 2-3 paces(That's basically how I let the band know what's getting ready to happen).but I'm digressing from the entire point of this comment,let me get back to what I wanted to say.
That pedal right there you got, that your buddy gave you? Jesus-H-Christ on a Rubber Fukkin' Crutch!.. not only did that thing vastly improve your tone? I could tell right away by the way you were playing,it was inspiring you to push the boundaries of what you consider to be the limits of your playing.This video right here? I've never heard you play this well before(and I'm not trying to say that you weren't a great player before you got this)Honestly,you just upped your game by getting it.You get up on stage with that thing,you crank your amp.The tubes warm up for about half an hour? You're going to be ripping people's faces off as soon as you begin playing(which morbidly enough,is something that us guitar players aspire to do..lol). If those things go into production and they become available you need to let your subs know.Because like I said I just use my Wah and my EQ.I refuse to go cordless.I'm way too old to switch that up at this point,& therefore I just use these 2 pedals I got on the stage floor.If I can buy one of those janks?I could see me retiring that MXR-EQ.when it goes into production,I need that pedal in my life.I'm a heavy gauge strings guy myself like you are.I use .11-.54s(I've even used.56s).When I'm playing at home,I just sit there and Jam along with live records of bands like Santana at the Fillmore'68,Band of Gypsys@ the Fillmore,Allman's live just about anyplace before late 1971.But when I'm onstage my adrenaline's pumping,I beat the living hell out of my guitar. There's been occasions when I busted a .56 E string in the middle of a solo(and I don't have Caesar to come running up behind me to flip that guitar out real quick so nobody even notices but when you watch it in slo-motion it's freaking amazing).I might be afraid to take that thing on stage cuz there's a possibility I might rip the neck right off of my guitar. Sometimes I take my fist & pound on the body(I'm sure you're aware of doing that it's really good crazy feedback at high volumes). Sorry to be so long-winded but I'm just sitting here talking like I'm in the room with you Bro.In my own personal opinion(whether you care or not)you should keep that thing in your setup permanently.Because it makes you play better than I've ever heard you play,and it makes you sound better than I've ever heard you sound.... Apologies for the long-winded speech. Stay up Brother. It's up to us and let these people know the blues is still alive and kicking.And if one of us dies somebody else is going to be there to pick up where we left off.✌️😀✌️
Just as Nik is finding his voice on some Gibsons (335, Trini, Firebird) along comes this pedal and drops him right back into SRV tone heaven... ;-)
Killer SRV tones and stellar playing Nik, i could tell you were enjoying that pedal !!
Texas Tone, check! SRV. Does not hurt that it is the “correct” guitar, through the “correct” amp, at the “right” volume ;)
The kitchen table duct tape display is just another reason why I love this channel! Gets right down to business f**k all the dumb shit its all about the tone anyway.
I enjoy your videos Nick. Great tone and licks!!!!
What a great sound pedal and awesome playing!! I am wondering if the Soloist also have the internal switch that allows further tone tweaking?
I believe it does
damn that thing rips, great video as always brother !
For the TS9 dilemma, I switched to the TS9DX. The "hot" setting gives the low end a kick and helps to recover that loss. Then you can still run your tone normally
Thanks for this! I love my Kingtone Fuzz (germanium). Looking for a good wah pedal. Had a fulltone years ago. Liked it. Recommendation?
Venus Witch , Detrik fx or Oxbow!
Wow, you really smoke those Texas Gypsy tones! Thanks for introducing me to KingTone pedals, I ordered a Ge Mini Fuzz the first time I heard you play. Still working on the playing part...
Me too..!
Amazing! The pedal and YOU!
Fantastic playing! Production on the videos is improving. Keep it up!
Just ordered one from Amelia Island Guitars. I started off with the blues power, then the 3 fuzzes and now this is on the way. I find the King Tone pedals are more amp like than any and they have such a great tone AND feel. Definitely raised the bar on pedals and tone.
That's an awesome tone you are getting, great vid Nik
Such good playing and tone. . and I never comment. Ever.
Thank you both. I appreciate it. Im trying
Great demo and great playing as always 🙏🏼
I've spent hundreds on pedals only to realize I can't play like SRV...... yet. :)
Now I need thos one... thanks allot.
AWESOME!!!!!!
So good, great pedal, great playing!!
Very cool Bro! I knew you’d be doing a vid on this. I have The Duellist and it is an amazing Pedal. And The Blues Power is by far my favorite Pedal on my beard. The Soloist seems like it’d be a great pedal to add to a collection and rotate in and out on a board, depending on what sound a song dictates or what the guitarist hears in his head, trying to convey that through talent and gear. Awesome Nik!! Very awesome.
Sounds incredible! I just wish they would be in stock to purchase.
Here you go! www.peachguitars.com/king-tone-guitar-the-soloist.htm
@@PeachGuitars now that's what I call service!!
Nik, your videos are excellent! Instructional, informative and not over produced. I’ve learned a lot. Pls keep them coming! Curious as to when you use a pedal like the soloist? Your straight in sound with the Strat and Super is so good. Does the soloist give you that sound when you can’t turn up the Super?
Ah thanks so much
I find that i try to dial it in so its not audibly “on/off”
I’ll try to get it to sound like the amp just got a little bigger when engaged
The Riff w Nik Sevigny Thx for responding. So it’s enhancing your Strat/Super sound and you’d use it at any volume?
Yes. Just would make adjustments accordingly
The Riff w Nik Sevigny Got it. Thx.
killer playing Nik! D A M N !!!!!!
Makes ya wonder what SRV would have thought about all these pedals and different things that was trying to sound like him ..✌🍄👍
this or the bluespower??..which dod you prefer. They sound very similar
Two different pedals and functions. One is an overdrive and one is a fat boost
Awesome
Would this stack well with a tubescreamer? Just ordered this pedal. Wonder what they'd sound like stacked.
I think the soloist itself is a tube screamer on steroids.. pairing with an actual ts9/10 might get muddy
@@jaysonmakesmusic yeah I took my 808 off the board, first time in years. I find it pairs nice with a OCD germanium. Soloist into OCD. Soloist is fine on its own for sure!
Is this just the right side of The Duellist? Is there a "body" dipswitch for it on The Duellist? Also when's Jesse going to get some more Bluebird pickups out! :P
Scorching tone 🤘🏼
Real nice!
I got this pedal even tho i play tele. I figured it would be close enough and ive been lovin it! not as stevie esque as your tone. My strat needs new frets. But i was wondering how you liked the soloist with your tele
I can plug the tele in soon!
@@theriffwniksevigny5473 sweeeeet!!
I got an RFO Tone Star (an Elmo and boost in one) today and I actually like it much better than the Soloist. Plus the guy the sells them is a super nice guy. You should check one out Nik!
If only this came out before the Duelist, I have the same (not really a problem) with the duelist, it’s a bit ‘knob heavy’ 😂and I tend to use one side. Still bloody fantastic pedals, both! Just need Jesse to introduce a buy now pay later option 👍🏻
Woohooo rock on!
Great playing Nik!
The King tone pedals are great but just like the Duellist for me it's too agressive Distortion....I don't know but it feels very wired.
What‘s the difference with the Blues power ?
One is a dual overdrive, the other is a boost
WOW! great playing Nik! can you tell how it compere to the duelist?
Its one half of the duellist, with a “body” function
Excuse me... but you have not demonstrated the pedal itself. You actually demonstrated an overdriven amp sound that hides the real pedal tone. Does it mean that the Soloist pedal is totally unusable with clean amp channel without any amp cranking tricks?
Well i would think -Over-drive. More drive to a driven amp?
Well, lucky driven amps, they are getting even more drive, and poor clean amps, they are still waiting for at least a small piece of drive... :-)
What amp are you using please?
2:48 👂🏻👀
Love you and you channel ... but price is out of most if our budgets... 265.00 on Reverb .. lots of great overdrives under 200.00 or less.. but great video and killer playing... remember 80% of tone is in your hands !!!!!!!
Nik recently I've been thinking about SRVs pickup height, and listening to Texas Flood, he gets such a gain boost simply by switching to the bridge pickup, I feel like his neck pickup is a lot lower than most people might think. This interview also shows his #1 on edge when he plays Tbone walker demos, and his pickups looks just a little bit above his screws, maby like 2 screw heads high. ua-cam.com/video/XDYiw1I30ck/v-deo.html
@16:04..."Machine Gun....Tearing my Body All Apart"....
What do you think of Soloist compared to the Blues Power pedal?
They are two different pedals with two different functions!
@@theriffwniksevigny5473 Thank you for your such a quick response! How might you label the two different functions?
One is a boost and the other is an overdrive
A bit noisy pedal... But chops are good buddy👍🏻🎸🎶
You know people with a turd amp and tagima will be thinking they will get this tone if they just buy the pedal lol.
Audio recordings suck.
Ohhh bubba..