AnalogMan Prince of TONE

The Prince of Tone is an interesting one for me.

I'd been after a Prince of Tone (PoT) for ages, I mean years. I always buy used and I remember about 6-7 years ago bidding on eBay and losing out on a few of these, which, in my opinion, were selling at too high a price at the time - at least for my wallet.

Then, as ever, life moves on, pedals get bought and sold, and I'd still never actually got my hands on a PoT.

A couple of weeks ago though, one came up in my Reverb feed which I thought was a very good price, and this rekindled my desire (coincidence? lol).

I've had other AnalogMan pedals, the Beano Boost and the Sun Face, and just like those the PoT is amazing build quality. Lovely solid casing, nice smooth feeling knobs, just overall a classy feeling and looking product.

I installed it on my pedalboard in the usual drive position, which maybe interesting for a few of you as I tend to use a kind of hybrid set up right now. I use a Quad Cortex into the Friedman Smallbox 50 with drive units in front of the QC. This means I can switch between using the preamp of the Smallbox, or use models / captures of other preamps instead, using the power amp section of the amp to drive the cabinet. This allows me to always use a high quality valve power amp section with the QC as well as using all the effects of the QC like chorus, delays and reverbs either before or after the pre amp as I see fit. The main benefit being I can use the Smallbox as a complete amp, or split it and use a preamp from the QC and the power amp from the Friedman.

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Anyway, back to the PoT!

With the very simple and ubiquitous controls of Volume, Drive and Tone, it's a simple pedal to use, and very easy to get great tones from. The small toggle switch moves between the classic overdrive, to a boost, to a distortion setting.

Video Demo of the Prince of Tone:

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