How I Learned to Love My Stratocaster Bridge Pickup - The Kingtone SRV Switch -
The Story of How I Learned to Love My Stratocaster Bridge Pickup
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Check out my installation of the Kingtone Switch into my Stratocaster here: • How to Install the Kingtone Switch - The B...
Check out my demo of the Blues Power, MiniFuzz GE, and 1968 Vibe here:
• Kingtone Vibe 1968
Check out my demo of the Kingtone Heavy Hand here:
• Kingtone - Heavy Hand - The Best Bluesbrea...
Check out my demo of the Kingtone Soloist here:
• Kingtone The Soloist — Jesse Davey
The Kingtone SRV Switch replaces your Strat's neglected secondary tone pot, and gives you 6 clickable knob positions that deliver a progressively warmer high end and EQ benefits of the SRV/Albert King variety to emulate that classic Texas Blues sound that Jesse Davey / Kingtone Guitar hold dear (you can find his Youtube channel at @jessetwohands ). If that wasn't enough, it also includes 16 different treble bleed configurations that you can select during installation of the switch to get your guitar's volume knob clean up just right for your level of glassy, treble-y greatness - or even disable a treble bleed if that is your thing!
This Switch actually makes me LOVE my Strat bridge pickup for the first time ever, it thickens it up so much and really gives that biting, singing Albert tone!
Here I am showing what the Kingtone SRV Switch is capable of with various levels of gain with the @Benson Amps Vincent both with it's pushed clean channel, as well as with the brilliant Kingtone MiniFuzz GE slamming the Benson hard - and of course I run through those tones with the volume knob turned down as well, so you can hear the characteristics of my favorite treble bleed SRV Switch setting, which is a preset Jesse named "Lindy".
For this video, I have the Benson grille mic'd with a combo of Royer R121 and SM57, and the back of the Benson open back 2x12 cab mic'd with a Royer R10 - all of that is running into my @Universal Audio Apollo x4 and mixed in @Ableton Live 11. My Strat is in D Standard, and I am using @Stringjoy Signature 12's on the guitar.
0:00 Intro and Background
Into Benson Amps Vincent Clean Channel, Pushed, Full Guitar Volume:
1:44 Kingtone Switch Bypassed, Neck Pickup
1:55 Kingtone Switch Bypassed, Neck/Middle Pickup
2:08 Kingtone Switch Bypassed, Bridge Pickup
2:30 Kingtone Switch Position 2, Neck Pickup
3:18 Kingtone Switch Position 2, Neck Middle Pickup
3:54 Kingtone Switch Position 3, Neck Pickup
4:34 Kingtone Switch Position 3, Neck Middle Pickup
4:46 Kingtone Switch Position 3, Bridge Pickup
5:17 Kingtone Switch Position 4, Neck Pickup
5:58 Kingtone Switch Position 4, Neck Middle Pickup
6:15 Kingtone Switch Position 5, Neck Pickup
7:07 Kingtone Switch Position 6, Neck Pickup
7:54 Kingtone Switch Position 6, Neck Middle Pickup
8:15 Kingtone Switch Position 6, Bridge Pickup
Into Benson Amps Vincent Clean Channel, Pushed, Guitar Volume Down to Show Treble Bleed Tone:
8:53 Kingtone Switch Bypassed, Neck Pickup
9:28 Kingtone Switch Position 2, Neck Pickup
9:40 Kingtone Switch Position 2, Bridge Pickup
9:49 Kingtone Switch Position 3, Neck Pickup
10:18 Kingtone Switch Position 3, Bridge Pickup
10:33 Kingtone Switch Position 4, Neck Pickup
10:54 Kingtone Switch Position 4, Bridge Pickup
11:07 Kingtone Switch Position 5, Neck Pickup
11:22 Kingtone Switch Position 5, Bridge Pickup
11:50 Kingtone Switch Position 6, Neck Pickup
12:17 Kingtone Switch Position 6, Bridge Pickup
MiniFuzz GE Into Benson Amps Vincent Clean Channel Pushed:
12:56 Kingtone Switch Bypassed, Neck Pickup
13:31 Kingtone Switch Bypassed, Bridge Pickup
14:08 Kingtone Switch Position 2, Neck Pickup
15:00 Kingtone Switch Position 3, Neck Pickup
15:13 Kingtone Switch Position 3, Bridge Pickup
15:42 Kingtone Switch Position 4, Neck Pickup
16:09 Kingtone Switch Position 4, Bridge Pickup
16:29 Kingtone Switch Position 5, Neck Pickup
16:57 Kingtone Switch Position 5, Bridge Pickup
17:15 Kingtone Switch Position 6, Neck Pickup
17:49 Kingtone Switch Position 6, Bridge Pickup
Volume Knob Treble Bleed Clean Up with MiniFuzz GE Into Benson Amps Vincent Clean Channel Pushed:
19:15 Kingtone Switch Bypassed, Neck Pickup
19:25 Kingtone Switch Bypassed, Neck Middle Pickup
19:56 Kingtone Switch Bypassed, Bridge Pickup
20:07 Kingtone Switch Position 2, Neck Pickup
20:43 Kingtone Switch Position 2, Bridge Pickup
20:52 Kingtone Switch Position 3, Neck Pickup
21:22 Kingtone Switch Position 3, Bridge Pickup
21:37 Kingtone Switch Position 4, Neck Pickup
22:15 Kingtone Switch Position 4, Bridge Pickup
22:31 Kingtone Switch Position 5, Neck Pickup
22:57 Kingtone Switch Position 5, Bridge Pickup
23:20 Kingtone Switch Position 6, Neck Pickup
23:50 Kingtone Switch Position 6, Bridge Pickup
24:07 Jam Out
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