I have several Kingsley pedals. This combination seems to fit your style of playing perfectly. If you want a little more gain you might try the Harlot in front of this. I just took delivery this week on a Minstrel. It's unbelievable.
Nice! I actually just got a Harlot v3 a few weeks ago, video of that one coming soon! Was deciding between the Harlot and Minstrel, I’m sure the Minstrel is great as well! Actually just recorded some music with the Harlot, out on RU-vid on ‘Marcelo Maccagnan - Boundless’ if you want to hear that, thanks for comment!
Your playing is phenomenal man ;) I have the Maiden preamp and the Page and Minstrel... Considering a Torpedo Cab unit now... sounds stellar! Would you recommend it for live use?
Thank you, Avi! I actually just use the plugin, but I use a direct IR type setup live with the HX Stomp, so I’m sure the Cab would do great! Would love to try the Maiden and Minstrel some day!
@@AndrewChengGuitar Well, the Maiden serves the same function as the squire, only more versitle and voiced somewhat different. The Minstrel though.... that's a whole other game, when talking about overdrives. The feel and sensitivity, dynamics and articulation... just like a having tube amp on your board, in a small enclosure. I very much approve! Will check out the Torpedo... it might be the thing. Thanks!
Cool. I see one of these in my future. It's funny with the modeling craze and the new hype about the (amazing) UA Fender Pedal, that these have been around a little while and have it all.
Clean and breakup sound great. Is this combo not capable of that full saturated cranked matchless dc30/ bad cat ef86 channel harmonic fuzzy chunky sound? I'm looking at ordering the squire 86 but was assuming it would do more when boosted.
Hey, if I’m not wrong, I think that Simon mentions most drive sounds known from those EF86 channels is the preamp stage driving the power amp section, rather than driving itself? It does get pretty fuzzy and chunky when you really push it though, I should be able to make a little video for that 🙂
@@AndrewChengGuitar well I could get that fuzzy tone with the master volume very low so I don't think it's power amp distortion. Have you tried boosting the volume very high on the page and controlling the overall volume with the squire? Thank you for the well done videos
@@AndrewChengGuitar Hello, I did that with mine and it works very well. Page and Page DS are capable of high boosting level so you can push every amp/preamp input to hot drive. With the brigthness (i mean high definition) and fat character of EF86 you’ll get something from totally clean to light break-up, british kind of drive and finally hot fuzzy drive. 😉
Great playing! Have you ever tried using the Squire 86 to drive an EL84 power section? I'm thinking of getting on to out in the FX return of my AC30, but wondered if there is enough output on the Squire to really drive the power section into saturation and overdrive?
Thank you! Sadly I haven’t been able to try it in front of a power section, it does have an insane amount of clean output though, I can’t have it past 9 o clock on full output mode usually. I usually use it just to fatten things up with my amps, and I don’t have an fx loop to try it with, will update if I do manage to try!
I am betting there would be plenty of gain. The first AC30 amps were just EF86 into an ECC83 phase inverter then driving a quad of EL84s for the Normal Channel. The EL84 has a sensitive input that does not require a large voltage to drive it. Easy to get plenty of warm vintage AC30 style overdrive with the EF86 to ECC83 to EL84 configuration with no need for a lot of preamp stages. The FX Return on an AC30 Custom Classic would feed directly to the ECC83 phase inverter. Good setup there for a vintage VOX AC30 configuration without spending thousands of dollars.
Hey Artem, that’s actually the Page ODS that’s designed to be an overdrive channel after a clean preamp, this is the regular Page Boost, designed to hit the front end of the amp 🙂
Funny enough I was talking to Simon about it, he said the regular Page could also work after the Squire, I tried and it sounds great! Might have to post another video of that
Good sound, but it irks me that in this day and age they have a "tone" control on the boost and preset eq switches instead of proper variable controls. When I was growing up in the 70s, a tone control instead of a proper eq stack is what you got because you bought budget equipment. There's no good excuse for such limited controls on higher end gear, but that's just this one guy's opinion. Great demo however!
Thanks for the kind words for the demo! I get what you mean, I do wish I had more control of things sometimes, Kingsley does offer pricier options with a full EQ stack as well. In the heat of battle though, I find the limited controls help me not get trapped in option paralysis, as he dialed them in quite practically. Different strokes for different folks though, good thing there are no shortages of products out there nowadays!
There are enough toggles that this shouldn't be an issue. These are hand wired analog components. Unless you want amp sized pedals... I mean amps (I suppose these are a special type of beasts)... LOL. The point is, there isn't room for what you are suggesting. You can always buy one of Simon's amps that have tone stacks for all the channels or drop an EQ in front or behind these. Rmemeber that the point of a pedal is to be compact and easy to adjust and be good at one thing. These have already far surpasses these basic requirements.
Cal L I appreciate where you’re coming from, but putting a bass mids treble stack or even just a bass treble on a tube preamp does not mean it will be the size of an amp. Lots of examples out there of pedals like this.
@@darwinsaye if you are hand wiring it, it's too difficult to fit everything in. You can do it with a printed board to save some space but it's still hard. Also, thinks about what these cost vs how it's the man soldering it himself. Plus material cost... it already is a very modest priced product for the construction. I have a few amps from the man, and you can adjust it anyway you want. But the first time you bypass that tonestack, you realize how well tuned these already are. There are also ideal frequencies that each settings works well at, so it's really hard to find a bad tone in his amps. There are boring tones no doubt, but there are also amazing tones. I think it's better to leave it to the man to figure it out. Soldering in that thing enclosure with two 12ax7 squeezed in is difficult enough as is.
