Analog Man

[Mr. Papa]

I’d be interested in trying the Chase Bliss and Warm Audio versions to see how they compare. I don’t think the POT is bad at all, some say it is better / tighter, but it is not the same as either channel of the KOT. Close maybe, but doesn’t have the same airy harmonics to my ear. YMMV.

 

[calcheyup]

I had a Prince of Tone for awhile. It was a fine pedal, but nothing about it stood out to me as being especially unique or special, certainly not for the price, and I sold it on Reverb years ago.

Regardless, sorry to hear - always kind of a bummer when you hear about this kind of changing of the tides. Makes me feel old.

 

[garagemonkey]

I had a Prince of Tone for awhile. It was a fine pedal, but nothing about it stood out to me as being especially unique or special, certainly not for the price, and I sold it on Reverb years ago.

I felt the same way. Have been on the KOT waiting list for years now and still have at least 2 years to go. In the meantime I bought a POT and picked up a Demon KOT knockoff several years ago just to see how I liked or didn't like the circuit. The Demon didn't do it for me, which I chalked up to being a knockoff, but then neither did the POT. I even sent the POT off to ThruTone FX in Nashville to have their mod package done to it, which is supposed to make it identical to one side of a KOT. No joy and I put both away in my spare pedal cabinet in the garage until I remembered the internal "treble trimpot"

KOT and POT come with the internal trimpot all the way down. Turning it up not only increases the presence/treble, but in my opinion, changes the character of the gain and depth of the drive. Bumping the internal pot up clockwise 1/3-turn (for me at least) completely transformed the character of this thing and now I'm eyeballing kicking other drives off my larger board to accommodate it. Did the same for the Demon knock-off as well, which by the way, is darn close sounding, especially for the $40 I paid for it.

 

[bluesky636]

This is what happens to any company or person whose most popular product has a wait list of 7 years or some other ridiculous number. He can't sell enough of his other pedals to make enough money to hire more employees and more parts to clear the backlog. Poor business model in my opinion.

 

[Mr. Papa]

This is what happens to any company or person whose most popular product has a wait list of 7 years or some other ridiculous number. He can't sell enough of his other pedals to make enough money to hire more employees and more parts to clear the backlog. Poor business model in my opinion.

The funny thing is I forgot I was on the waiting list for a KOT (since 2012) and meanwhile have bought just about every other pedal they sell, so I don’t think they have any problem selling their other pedals, which are also great/usable/musical. I think they just can’t find the parts for the KOT so they periodically sell all their available stock, same as they sold out on NKT red and white dot Sun Faces and sold out on Dark Peppermint fuzzes. I’m always happy to give my custom to an American small business, even if I have to wait a few weeks for the workbenches to get clear.