Status as of
May 6, 2008:King Of Tone is now shipping to people who got on the waiting list on or anytime before:
Status as of
May 6, 2008:
King Of Tone is now shipping to people who got on the waiting list on
or anytime before:
July 4, 2006
When you get to the top of the list I will email you and you can order one KoT pedal of any available version. If you were on the list before this date but did not see my email, it probably got flagged as SPAM. Then contact me with your email address on the list and I will give you ordering info.
Sorry I can't tell you exactly how long the wait will be if you get on it now, but this shipping date should give you a very good idea.
The KoT was first sold in November 2003 but soon we could not keep up with the demand (like the BICOMP) and had to start up a waiting list. We kept it going pretty well until the spring of 2004 when we just got too busy keeping up with normal orders.
To avoid delays to people who paid
for other (non waiting list) pedals, we did not send out notifications
to the KoT list (or bicomp list) until we got caught up with shipping.
This was a very rare occurance. That slowed things up quite a bit
to the annoyance of customers who wanted the KoT pedals. But for
us it was a way to allow a few hours sleep every night, by taking KoT
(and bicomp) orders only when we could process them efficiently.
During this slow period of shipping, we came up with the Ver3, 5 knob KoT in late 2004. We created it because people were asking for seperate drive knobs and I thought it was a great idea. We already had about the only OD pedal around with two real channels, not just a boost button, but it would be great to have more adjustability on both channels. We made up a Ver3 board and the 5 knob KoT worked and sounded great. But there was some minor popping when turning the YELLOW channel on and off, if the two drive knobs were set quite differently. That is the whole point of the seperate drive knobs, I like the yellow at about 12:00 and the red all the way up, so I was not satisfied. I then spent several months redoing it to reduce the pop with no good results. The circuit just would not allow switching the DRIVE knobs quietly, no matter what we did. Then I got frustrated and had "designer's block". During this time we did not sell many KoT pedals as I thought a new model was just around the bend. We did sell about a dozen 5 knob Ver3 KoTs.
Sorry for the delays, hope you understand that it has been as painful for us as it was for you.
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