Not sure if anybody mentioned it yet, but Kingsley is from Abbotsford, British Columbia , Canada (just outside of Vancouver). The owner and designer is originally from England.
As said before Kingsley is indeed based just outside of Vancouver, BC in Canada though Simon is from the UK originally. I think Noah might have made this one. I phoned and told Simon to watch this so we can talk about it at work tomorrow. Good teardown!
Cool to see a turret board in a pedal. Love these videos, I find them interesting and strangely relaxing. Another idea that may be interesting are the quilter superblock pedalboard amps, the USA or uk versions.
Thanks for hearing the call out- A gorgeous meticulous component/wiring layout, def a build to try to aspire too someday once learned this crazy tube amp math and etc. Rad show mate :)
Exactly my reaction upon seeing the construction of this pedal. I was horrified to see a teardown of a pedal from a brand I was seriously considering showed the tube seats/sockets were board-mounted! This is a nicely put together item. These videos are great!
Nice quality . The designer must have spent some time in custody as the blue is bang on . I'm guessing stud welds for the tube stands offs but maybe wrong , very neat . This method is like spot welding but leaving the pin behind . I've built similar using the close equivalent of ECC83s in Russian subminiature tubes which enable lower plate voltage , but mainly to drive 2 amps from a " Stereo " guitar source . My supply of old Cliff parts is drying up after parting out some old solid state PA amps that had seen better days . The jacks are great if you are building into an enclosure as they can be mounted flush , dropped in and held with the bezel and coloured ring of your choice ( red or black in my case ) and Cliff has now moved away from their older product line so its difficult to find the white , red and black bezels used on the classic gear . I have a few but running low on those too . Last white one went on the output jack of a 1972 HiWatt Custom 100 head during a rebuild . I'm surprised that no one has used the Hi Watt preamp topology for this purpose . Maybe I will build one .
i enjoy your tear down videos , i was wondering if you could get into the schematic a bit more of some of the older pedals that are no longer being made , break down how each component effects the circuit . do you have any recommendations on a book or books i can read to help me understand DIY guitar pedals a bit better?
Question about tube pedals, from a layman's perspective: 1) How can you tell if the tube is really in the circuit and doing something, as opposed to just being a marketing thing? I remember there being some drama about some pedals only having a decorative tube that isn't actually in the circuit. 2) How to properly care for tube pedals? How long does that tube inside actually last before we should consider changing?
#1 is tough, because you'd have to describe exactly what "it" is, that tube pedals are trying to emulate. The question naturally deteriorates into greater and greater levels of abstraction, it's hard to make decisive claims. Remember, there's a bunch of solid state pedals that claim to sound like tube amps too! A general rule of thumb though, it to look at the operational voltages. The constable here runs at voltages similar to the tube amp from which it's derived. Pedals like the valvecaster and tube driver, not so much. #2 Keeping the vents clear is a good idea, although the heat from a 12AX7 isn't that bad. Preamps tubes last a long, long time. Many tube amps from the 50's and 60's are still rocking their original preamp tubes with no issues, and they're operating at even higher voltages.
@@graybenchelec I'm a bass player, so the sound I personally associate with tubes isn't "warmth" like guitarists usually claim, but a certain difference in playing response, almost like compression. Its most noticeable when I slap or pick hard
I’ll add that some pedals like the old Radial Tonebone line runs their tubes in a “starved” state. This apparently also yields som sort of clipping that some seem to like and others not so much. But it does mean that the voltages inside aren’t nearly as high as in this Kingsley pedal.
@@erikvincent5846 I believe so, I think he was replacing the opto in a fender trem circuit. Now that used a neon lamp, maybe not ideal for pedal voltages haha. But the principles are the same :)
The Kingsley Artisan has a bias control but I think the bias control is adjusting the JFET biasing voltage or the tube grid biasing voltage? because most of kingsley pedals plate voltage are at 250vdc step up from 9vdc
Great tear down video. I’m interested in learning more about that power supply and how those plate voltages compare to what is present on a real Marshal preamp. Cheers
Quite a decent build. Putting high voltage pedals into the hands of the public is a scary thought. I felt the same about those older EHX Tube pedals. ;) Great video, Joe. Thanks, man!
I have to admit, I'd be a little concerned with having that much voltage in a metal box on the floor. I'd be worried about beer spillage and just generally getting a shock off the case.... which may well be unfounded. Is that even possible for the case to become live?
Liking what I see here as regards construction method, specifically the wiring and the mounting of the tube seats. I will NEVER purchase anything that has the tube seats mounted on a PCB. Glad to see that Kingsley eschew the inferior construction methods which are all too common these days. Really useful video, thanks.
This channel is definitely going to blow up - and deservedly so!
Thank you, we'll see 😉
Not sure if anybody mentioned it yet, but Kingsley is from Abbotsford, British Columbia , Canada (just outside of Vancouver). The owner and designer is originally from England.
As said before Kingsley is indeed based just outside of Vancouver, BC in Canada though Simon is from the UK originally. I think Noah might have made this one. I phoned and told Simon to watch this so we can talk about it at work tomorrow. Good teardown!
Thank you!
I've never opened my Kingsley Page but it's a great sounding pedal. I'm back in the queue for more of Simon's pedals.
Cool to see a turret board in a pedal.
Love these videos, I find them interesting and strangely relaxing.
Another idea that may be interesting are the quilter superblock pedalboard amps, the USA or uk versions.
Thank you!
Thanks for hearing the call out- A gorgeous meticulous component/wiring layout, def a build to try to aspire too someday once learned this crazy tube amp math and etc. Rad show mate :)
Thank you!
Exactly my reaction upon seeing the construction of this pedal. I was horrified to see a teardown of a pedal from a brand I was seriously considering showed the tube seats/sockets were board-mounted! This is a nicely put together item. These videos are great!
Simon is the real deal.
Kingsleys rock!
Very curious to see the inside of the van Weelden Royal Overdrive. He clames that there are over 200 components in that pedal!
That's a rare beast, I'll see what I can do :)
@@graybenchelec , that would be great!
Nice quality . The designer must have spent some time in custody as the blue is bang on . I'm guessing stud welds for the tube stands offs but maybe wrong , very neat . This method is like spot welding but leaving the pin behind . I've built similar using the close equivalent of ECC83s in Russian subminiature tubes which enable lower plate voltage , but mainly to drive 2 amps from a " Stereo " guitar source . My supply of old Cliff parts is drying up after parting out some old solid state PA amps that had seen better days . The jacks are great if you are building into an enclosure as they can be mounted flush , dropped in and held with the bezel and coloured ring of your choice ( red or black in my case ) and Cliff has now moved away from their older product line so its difficult to find the white , red and black bezels used on the classic gear . I have a few but running low on those too . Last white one went on the output jack of a 1972 HiWatt Custom 100 head during a rebuild . I'm surprised that no one has used the Hi Watt preamp topology for this purpose . Maybe I will build one .
i enjoy your tear down videos , i was wondering if you could get into the schematic a bit more of some of the older pedals that are no longer being made , break down how each component effects the circuit . do you have any recommendations on a book or books i can read to help me understand DIY guitar pedals a bit better?
Thank you! Yes check out www.electrosmash.com/. They have a whole section dedicated to pedals that does the type of analysis you're after.
Question about tube pedals, from a layman's perspective:
1) How can you tell if the tube is really in the circuit and doing something, as opposed to just being a marketing thing? I remember there being some drama about some pedals only having a decorative tube that isn't actually in the circuit.
2) How to properly care for tube pedals? How long does that tube inside actually last before we should consider changing?
#1 is tough, because you'd have to describe exactly what "it" is, that tube pedals are trying to emulate. The question naturally deteriorates into greater and greater levels of abstraction, it's hard to make decisive claims. Remember, there's a bunch of solid state pedals that claim to sound like tube amps too!
A general rule of thumb though, it to look at the operational voltages. The constable here runs at voltages similar to the tube amp from which it's derived. Pedals like the valvecaster and tube driver, not so much.
#2 Keeping the vents clear is a good idea, although the heat from a 12AX7 isn't that bad. Preamps tubes last a long, long time. Many tube amps from the 50's and 60's are still rocking their original preamp tubes with no issues, and they're operating at even higher voltages.
@@BlakeC27 Would you consider 18V/2A powered pedal to be a real tube preamp then?
@@graybenchelec I'm a bass player, so the sound I personally associate with tubes isn't "warmth" like guitarists usually claim, but a certain difference in playing response, almost like compression. Its most noticeable when I slap or pick hard
@@BlakeC27 Constable is powered by 12V/0.7A. The voltage is internally stepped up. Same could be true for the aforementioned 18V/2A.
I’ll add that some pedals like the old Radial Tonebone line runs their tubes in a “starved” state. This apparently also yields som sort of clipping that some seem to like and others not so much. But it does mean that the voltages inside aren’t nearly as high as in this Kingsley pedal.
Nice video as always. How about a breakdown of Vactrols and rolling ones own?
Thank you! I've never made my own optocoupler, but uncle doug has a video on that if anyone is interested.
@@graybenchelec yeah, but is the Uncle Doug video in question have you using it for something like a compressor, tremolo, or a phaser?
@@erikvincent5846 I believe so, I think he was replacing the opto in a fender trem circuit. Now that used a neon lamp, maybe not ideal for pedal voltages haha. But the principles are the same :)
The Kingsley Artisan has a bias control but I think the bias control is adjusting the JFET biasing voltage or the tube grid biasing voltage? because most of kingsley pedals plate voltage are at 250vdc step up from 9vdc
Great tear down video. I’m interested in learning more about that power supply and how those plate voltages compare to what is present on a real Marshal preamp. Cheers
Thank you! The tubes are running in excess of 200VDC, so it's at least comparable in terms of voltage.
While born in the UK, Simon isn't a UK manufacturer, he now lives outside Vancouver, BC, Canada.
S.i.b. barracuda tube overdrive. A review of that would interest me
Cool, thanks. But, Kingsley is located in Canada, not the UK.
Thank you for the correction!
Quite a decent build.
Putting high voltage pedals into the hands of the public is a scary thought. I felt the same about those older EHX Tube pedals. ;)
Great video, Joe.
Thanks, man!
I have to admit, I'd be a little concerned with having that much voltage in a metal box on the floor. I'd be worried about beer spillage and just generally getting a shock off the case.... which may well be unfounded. Is that even possible for the case to become live?
@@rocket69218 Case should always be earthed.
Thanks !!
Could you do the tc tube pilot as a tear down or show how you could mod it?
I'll add it to the list, thanks!
In case noby else told you yet, Kingsley is located in British Columbia, Canada. :)
Liking what I see here as regards construction method, specifically the wiring and the mounting of the tube seats. I will NEVER purchase anything that has the tube seats mounted on a PCB. Glad to see that Kingsley eschew the inferior construction methods which are all too common these days. Really useful video, thanks.
And once more I gotta wonder why people still stick to carbon resistors, other than save cost...
There in no such thing as Czechoslovakia, but nice video anyway 👍
Not now anyway lol
impressive box. no crappy smd's in this thing