LYR Guitar effect pedal OVERDRIVE pedal electric guitar King Of Pedal Professional effect pedal True bypass, purple, 120 * 93 * 65 mm (V4)

Here it is next to the original I own. Just as good. Ever so slightly different in the midrange - but you would find that same variation between different originals. The Lyr is actually a bit louder and more powerful sounding than my original. If you want an original then get in the waiting list for sure! Then in the 8 years you are waiting use this Lyr. It’s that good believe me.

ignore the "it's not even close to the original" comments, you really think they are going to say it is? they just paid $600 + for a $300 pedal!! come on now!!anyway, great pedal, it seems built well, very nice sounding in its own right (never found it to be fizzy or bright but tone is very subjective)Its $65! try it, you don't like it, throw it on ebay or reverb...it's a lot cheaper than most of the overpriced boutique "clones" out there!

I do not own a King of Tone and have never played one (I'm on the waiting list with no end in sight). All I have to go off of are YouTube videos. Everything I've researched has the King of Tone down as the king of "transparent" overdrive (based on a Bluesbreaker circuit). It should sound just like your guitar, just a little more dirty. Trying to emulate natural tube distortion AFAIK.To my ear, the LY King of Clone added a lot of high end. I compared across several of my guitars, their pickup configurations and the two channels of my amp. The internal presence knobs came pre-turned to ~80%. I started by turning them down all the way. I picked up a Hot Box Dual Drive used from a local shop by fortune to compare. The Hot Box added some high end too, but with the tone at around 9:30, it seemed to even out. I mostly compared the clean "boost" which I had in the left as the KoT comes standard. The internal dip switches came backwards from the default KoT setup. For a third volume reference I used my JHS Colour Box as a pre-amp/clean boost push.Even putting the tone knob on the LY KoC all the way down, I couldn't get it to sound like the HB-DD did in terms of transparency (or the Colour Box).I did go back and put them back at 80% just in case the part was backwards or something, but it added even more high end.I also observed the KoC was more prone to feedback loops on sustained notes, which is cool if you like that. It took a lot more preamp gain or holding my guitar very close to the speaker to get it to "squeal." It felt like maybe there was a tad more gain in the KoC over the HB-DD. Both say they are the "high gain" clone version of the KoT, but don't provide toggle switches between the two like the 68 Pedals clone.It does sound GOOD especially through my Vox which loves to eat up high end and distort it. But for a King of Tone clone that's supposed to be "transparent," I'm looking elsewhere. At first I thought I liked it more (doing tests in my top boost channel), but then doing comparisons on the clean channel showed me how much extra high end there was. I think the extra high end was just causing wayy more actual tube distortion (because my Vox loves to distort high end) causing it to sound wayy higher gain which mad it an unfair comparison.Build quality seemed solid, but mine (ordered "new") had scratched foot pedals (B-stock?) and a chip in the purple paint near the logo.Additional gear used in my demo:G&L ASAT TributeG&L S-500 TributeGibson Les Paul Trad Pro VJHSVox AC15C1 (Greenback)Hot Box Dual Overdrive

Excellent pedal! Great build quality, and it sounds excellent. I didn't want to wait 5 years for the real deal so I wanted to try this one. I am glad I did, especially at the $66 price point it cannot be beat. I have tried other chinese clones that do not sound good at all. This is not one of them. This pedal is great, I highly recommend it! My only complaint is there wasn't any paperwork. It would be nice to have a description of the switches and pots, particularly the internal ones.

People complaining about high-end fizz need to turn down the internal trim pots. The same trim pots that exist in the KOT. For whatever reason the manufacturer is sending these out with the trim pots dialed up way too far for most uses.Turn the trim pots down all the way and it sounds awesome.

I have a real analog man King of Tone and I bought this a cheap price of $59 delivered hoping it would replace the original. I was really disappointed in the sound out of this LYR clone pedal. If I thought it sounded good enough to play in front of people I would love to keep it for 60 bucks but it's not even worth that much so I returned it.

If you’re on the waitlist or have other ready great drives and boosts (Broadcast, etc) I don’t think this will scratch the itch for youMy copy is extremely bright, have the internal rip switches on almost 0 and the tone rolled down pretty low to sound similar to other drive pedals. I’m not someone who cares where knobs are set, it just reduces the working range of the pedal when only 1/3 of the tone knob is a useful sound.MUCH better on 18v than 9v but still a little compressed in the low mids, and feels like it’s chopping off a bit too much of the fundamental.Might work in a busy mix or if you have an extremely dark amp, but it’s not a KOT replacement. It seems like that attention to detail auditioning parts and checking tolerances makes a pretty huge difference in this circuit, where as others are more forgiving.Excited for my turn for the real thing to come up in a few years

Sounds good right out of the box through a 1966 super reverb