DemonFX - King of Drive?

[Guerilla Electro]

I love Demon Fx pedals !
The Analogman chorus is great , the Cali76 Bass is incredible , just as good as the original , so I just bought a second one !
I also love the Vertex SSS clone ( great clean boost with subtle EQ) and the Pearl White autowah .
I can also recommend the King Spark which is their own design , excellent overdrive , fender sounding ,

Highly recommend the Fortin 33 clone : ultra clean boost made for 7 strings and baritones ,so it cuts a good amount of bass to boost a high -gain amp , it also has a very cool switch output, so it can switch your amp's channel when activated.

Those Demon Fx pedals have been on my main board for 1-2 years now , they kicked out some expensive , vintage and "boutique" ones down to my 3 other "secondary" boards .

DemonFX substitutes some through-hole components for surface mount equivalents , depending on the circuits it can be a few SMT components or 90% of the board in SMT .


Now check out LY Rock pedals , they are even better , a bit more expensive , but higher quality , handmade and using the exact components . Those are some serious "boutique" builds , just as good as anything else I've seen .

Here's side to side comparaison original Cali76 compact VS the LY Rock clone ( Stacked edition ) : They are the same weight ( over a Lb ) , the Demon Fx one feels 4 times lighter

 

[Lorenz1973]

I've recently bought King of Tone, The Duellist, the Tape echo and Ghast echo.
They all sound very good. I usually build pedals and tube amp for myself and my pleasure, but in the new band I needed a bluesbreaker sound without carry my 1973x replica. It nails the tone (of the original pedal I mean).

But for the King of Drive I found that the two sides are not equal in sound, so I investigated further and found a major fault: two resistors wrongly placed (RX1 was 10K instead of 1k - and R6 was 1k instead of 10K). Since I'm very comfortable with electronics and soldering, I took apart the pedal and swapped the two resistors. Now It sound very good, as it should be.
Another fault is the painting of the King of drive, too thin and easy to rip off even with a fingernail. I've put another layer of clear paint and now it's ok.
I've shared these issues with Demonfx and I didn't return them because they were simple problems to fix for me.

In the other hand, I found a lot of details of a well built pedal: good potentiometers also with potz caps! good jacks, footswitches, good soldering, and no noise or hum at all. They are worth the price and more.

Now Is coming a Sweet Tea of LY Rock, let's see how it is.

 

[stormsedge]

I have 11 DemonFx pedals including the KoD…not a bad one among them.

 

[richey88]

I have the Prince of Tone and I think it’s just lovely, which side of the
K of D is the Prince?

 

[Tim S]

I have 11 DemonFx pedals including the KoD…not a bad one among them.

I only have 9* (and their Space Grey power supply), so… you win!

*= Pearl White Auto Wah, K Compressor, SSS, Jan Ray, KoD, Dual Gun, AT-DS, Mini Chorus, and Reverb&Delay Workstation.

 

[Tim S]

I have the Prince of Tone and I think it’s just lovely, which side of the
K of D is the Prince?

Whichever side you want?

 

[richey88]

^^Got it, thanks!