Tone King Royalist Pedal

[rsm]

He has an original ‘83? JCM 800 1/2 stack, so he’s got that gain covered.

Since he has the TK Imperial and uses the attenuator , and gets great tones at lower volumes, he thought the Royalist would do the same.

He doesn’t play out, and has several of his amps set up in his living room.

He thought that the attenuator might act as sort of a MV to get great Marshall tones at low comfortable volumes.

He’s really bummed because he sold an awesome Splawn Combo and a Dr. Z head to get it.

He really regrets it now.

Oh well, sometimes GAS bites you in the ASS .

Not familiar with the Royalist amp; did he try a boost in front of the amp?

The attenuator on the pedal acts as a master volume; using it into a pair of FRFR powoerd PA cabs, I can crank the channel volume and the attenuator, and turn down the volume on the FRFR cabs. It gets some crunch, edge of breakup, but without a boost, it's not getting late 70s levels of gain.

 

[Texsunburst59]

Not familiar with the Royalist amp; did he try a boost in front of the amp?

The attenuator on the pedal acts as a master volume; using it into a pair of FRFR powoerd PA cabs, I can crank the channel volume and the attenuator, and turn down the volume on the FRFR cabs. It gets some crunch, edge of breakup, but without a boost, it's not getting late 70s levels of gain.

No he wanted it to sound good on its own without any type of boost on front.

He has a Friedman 40 watt head that sounds great, and thought head get some similar tones out of the Royalist.

He assumed that the Friedman sounds good without any boost in front of, and thought the Royalist should too.

I think he had unrealistic expectations of what the Royalist should sound like .

The sad thing is he sold his Splawn and Dr. Z amps to GC, and hardly got anything for them.

I guess in this case, the Royalist wasn’t the King of Tone. LOL