Analogman King of Tone Teardown! See what's inside! 

No way! I had no idea any one gave a shit about the boards I build. Awesome tear down.

Very nice video. I work at AM and am building several of these while I watch this lol.

Love the simplicity and thoroughness of this series

10:45 I've had the privilege of owning multiple KoT pedals at once and I've switched around the stock chips (some very good chips from the outside as well) and for sure there was a big difference. It's magic and a bunch of synergy. In one setting a certain opamp wouldn't make a difference, but when you have it all together, there are components that really start to rock alone. With the right side high gain options as well, those chips are made for this circuit, for sure. Not like the differences weren't noticable. They all had a lot of character. The same high gain chips could be clear, some had this character of going over the top, almost muddy, from the same pedal.

Love the KOT and the channel! 🔥🙌🏻

Nice! Thanks for doing this! 🔥

nice episode I love looking at pedal guts

I'd love to see Origin Effects represented. They've got some complicated insides there!

Love your videos. They have inspired me to start building my own pedals. I would love to see a teardown of the Honey Bee Amps Clean Drive.

Cool, I learned a lot!

Awesome channel!

Literally got on the waiting list the same day as you 😂😂. Happy I was able to hang in there. My helix filled the void long enough but the real thing sounds and feels better. They are very close though. Have to give line 6 some serious credit.

2:34 The LED look is factory. That option is called "Diffused" on Digikey... I just so happen to have LEDs up on their page, and I was looking at some that were not the other type, which is typically called "Clear", or "Water Clear".

Or it could be that the top of the IC and box cap are simply convenient places to mark the "high gain" channel...

I can't say I agree with the bending of the pins on each of the pots like that. But I guess they know what they are doing.

I’m on the list! Let’s see if it’s worth it!🤣

Great video. Thanks. About the closest I'll ever come to seeing a KoT 🤣

Only 3 more years left for me!

Nice

Could you do Ibanez TS7 teardown? Anyhow, really like your videos

Hope you upload high quality pics of the circuit board. Thank you! 🤘

Great info. Meanwhile the Blues Breaker gets reissued. I bet these will still be sought after tho, at least for it's 2-in-1 design.

I sub'd!

Could you do a comparison with those Chinese clones? It would be interesting to see all

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The reason why they went with the longer leg pots instead of the standard pcb mounted pots might have something to do with the footswitches being pcb mounted. I think the footswitches stand quite a bit taller than the standard legs of a pcb mounted pot, so my guess would be that they needed that extra length in the legs to mount the pots in the pcb.

Answered my question about stereo jacks. Now I know my satellite board can plug into the left side and then to a switcher to switch betweem boards.

I spent a lot of time swapping in different op amps on my KoT and settled on using an OPA2134 for the left side (yellow LED) in clean boost mode. It has a less spitty overdrive tone than the JRC4580 (aka NJM4580), especially when driving it hard with the right hand side volume cranked up. Those mythical diodes (MA856) are only in the circuit when the distortion mode is selected with the DIP switch, which I never use. The 1S1588 diodes have about the same forward voltage drop as 1N4148 diodes which are dirt cheap and widely available. It is no surprise that Analog Mike chose them as a replacement. You can run 18V power on this pedal since those electrolytic capacitors are rated for 25V. This provides more headroom for boost before the op amps start distorting. It sounds less compressed. By the way, I managed to smoke the 4580 op amp by plugging in the input side while turned on with the gain cranked. Replacement was trivial, since it was socketed and I already had a pile of op amps.

So how does your KOT measure up to the ones with the original diodes used. Lovely channel btw.

Chase Bliss Automatone please.

ETA on the K.O.T for myself is 10 months and counting...😵‍💫

I actually just built a clone and it is a darn good sounding pedal. In the upper left of the PCB it has "R5 optional" and it looks like C4 is unpopulated. Any idea what those are for? Thanks, love the channel!

You didn't even measure the MA858 voltage drops! Do you not know how exciting that is as pedal fodder? 😊

Hi Joe, was it worth the wait?

I just wish companies would ditch the plastic white washers on the footswitch

You wait 5 years and you get nylon washers...:)

Why would anyone wait this long for a pedal and not just build/buy a clone is something I'll never understand

The most bland, overhyped, blues lawyer pedal since the Klon.