Great playing and demo. Is there some dual mic phasing issues in the recording (camera with sm57)? Sounds phasey compared to other vids. Great playing once again.
I have one, and the attenuator is great. I almost always have the amp one notch down on the attenuator on the lead channel and it sounds just like when the amp is at full volume. In general the amp totally kicks butt and is a pleasure to use and everyone who has used mine asks to use it whenever I have it someplace. Folks love that they can roll the volume up or down on the guitar and the amp responds accordingly. It has beautiful cleans and absolutely rocks when you turn up the guitar full volume, whether it’s a humbucker or single coils.
Ultralinear mode is actually a percentage balance between triode and pentode mode involving the output transformer. Ultralinear actually produces less distortion given a theoretical 40% balance point. Witness the late 1970's Fender Twin Reverb amplifiers which used this technique first developed in the 1930's; a very clean power section even although Fender didn't get the balance spot on and resulted in more of a traditional pentode mode. So it's wrong to suggest ultralinear mode give a warm rounded vintage tone. That's more associated with a single ended class A circuit. Ultralinear mode gives a cleaner tone in the power section.
Having played an amp with ultra linear mode, I confidently, 100%, can say that it produces a warmer, thicker and more rounded sound. It's 100% correct.
The sky king sounds as though it's very prone to background noise ....especially when this guy stops to make adjustments? Maybe the guitar is not well shielded or the room had poos electrics?
It’s the guitar picking up the noise not the amp. I have both amps and they’re both well shielded. A single-coil pickup will pick up that 60 cycle hum. Notice it goes away with the humbucker-equipped Les Paul?
Hey Mr.Dave Hunter, why don't you make some... "Formidable NOISE", like You accused Leslie West and Pete Townsend of making!!! I just bet that those outrageous 3K+ Rigs could do it in style!!!
Wow. Not a word about the Iron Man attenuators. Dual ones in the Sky King. Transformer coupled, the most natural sounding attenuator I've ever used. Not associated with Tone King, just a really happy owner. Really not a very good demo of it. Check out Tone King Sky King Namn Greg Koch. Greg and Mark Bartel do a far better job and the sound is substantially better. Too bad....
Love that ultra linear mode on sky king
Well made demo!
Great playing and demo. Is there some dual mic phasing issues in the recording (camera with sm57)? Sounds phasey compared to other vids. Great playing once again.
Really nice.
What so you think of the builtin attenuator in the 20th anniversary imperial ?
I have one, and the attenuator is great. I almost always have the amp one notch down on the attenuator on the lead channel and it sounds just like when the amp is at full volume. In general the amp totally kicks butt and is a pleasure to use and everyone who has used mine asks to use it whenever I have it someplace. Folks love that they can roll the volume up or down on the guitar and the amp responds accordingly. It has beautiful cleans and absolutely rocks when you turn up the guitar full volume, whether it’s a humbucker or single coils.
Got both ,both are hand wired,I prefer the skyking.I like your L.P
Im hesitate betwinn imperial and a Sky King what is your opinion ?
Ultralinear mode is actually a percentage balance between triode and pentode mode involving the output transformer. Ultralinear actually produces less distortion given a theoretical 40% balance point. Witness the late 1970's Fender Twin Reverb amplifiers which used this technique first developed in the 1930's; a very clean power section even although Fender didn't get the balance spot on and resulted in more of a traditional pentode mode. So it's wrong to suggest ultralinear mode give a warm rounded vintage tone. That's more associated with a single ended class A circuit. Ultralinear mode gives a cleaner tone in the power section.
Having played an amp with ultra linear mode, I confidently, 100%, can say that it produces a warmer, thicker and more rounded sound. It's 100% correct.
Can you explain to me the linear switch actually does.i bought a 3k amp an
The Linear switch changes the way the power amp is wired. Read the manual.
Damn, that sounds good. But for $3,000 it should! Still, nice demo.
The sky king sounds as though it's very prone to background noise ....especially when this guy stops to make adjustments? Maybe the guitar is not well shielded or the room had poos electrics?
It’s the guitar picking up the noise not the amp. I have both amps and they’re both well shielded. A single-coil pickup will pick up that 60 cycle hum. Notice it goes away with the humbucker-equipped Les Paul?
Hey Mr.Dave Hunter, why don't you make some... "Formidable NOISE", like You accused Leslie West and Pete Townsend of making!!! I just bet that those outrageous 3K+ Rigs could do it in style!!!
it's a nice rig
this is recorded awfully
Wow. Not a word about the Iron Man attenuators. Dual ones in the Sky King. Transformer coupled, the most natural sounding attenuator I've ever used. Not associated with Tone King, just a really happy owner. Really not a very good demo of it. Check out Tone King Sky King Namn Greg Koch. Greg and Mark Bartel do a far better job and the sound is substantially better. Too bad....
Well explained at 2:20