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Who has purchased a DemonFX pedal?
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Big Monk
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I got flagged for using Fuzz Face in my title for a Si FF build.
What else do you call it?!
jeffwhitfield
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Or just respond to whatever bullshit complaints from certain pedal makers.
jeffwhitfield
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Just take out most of the vowels. Fzz Fce. Or maybe Fazz Fuce.
Buyer: This guy can't even spell, how good is the Pedal he just Built!!!Just take out most of the vowels. Fzz Fce. Or maybe Fazz Fuce.
vigilante398
Authorized Vendor
Lol, I totally bought a couple of those (one gold, one silver) a few years back and built klones into them with those cloned original boards.
Feral Feline
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I’d love to have the full blown klone with enKlosure etc, and then put a ridiculous graphic on it that in no way resembles the original authentic design;
That or
Just the enKlosure with a ridiculous circuit inside (Great Destroyer into Rainbow Machine or whatever etc), and still have a stoooopidd graphic on it…
ie — I want the look of the Klon, but I want it to SCREAM,
THIS IS NOT THE KLON(E) YOU’RE LOOKING FOR!
In fact, that oughta be the name of the pedal & the graphic
Sorry, no photochop skills. Just imagine that on an enKlosure with knobs & footswitch.
That or
Just the enKlosure with a ridiculous circuit inside (Great Destroyer into Rainbow Machine or whatever etc), and still have a stoooopidd graphic on it…
ie — I want the look of the Klon, but I want it to SCREAM,
THIS IS NOT THE KLON(E) YOU’RE LOOKING FOR!
In fact, that oughta be the name of the pedal & the graphic
Sorry, no photochop skills. Just imagine that on an enKlosure with knobs & footswitch.
MichaelW
Well-known member
I have a DemonFX "King of Drive" KOT clone. And it's about as clone-ish as it gets right down to the Nichichon FG and Panasonic EQV caps. Who knows if the caps are real or not. The 4580's look legit to me, but wtf do I know
I do know that it's a GREAT sounding pedal and from A/B testing videos I've listened to very close to the KOT.
The DemonFX comes with the high gain mod on an internal switch.
In fact, it was this pedal that got me interested in trying to build my own pedal. In reading the bazillion interwebz threads about the KOT and it's clones exposed me to all this talk about magical fairy dust unobtanium diodes, 4 year waiting lists, "only 10 available on Wednesdays at 1pm Eastern", etc that I was intrigued.....then I found PedalPCB.com.....my credit card bill has been piling up just a tad faster than all these capacitors, resistors, IC's, etc at my workbench. (Yet, I never seem to have that ONE value cap for my current build and bam there goes another $35 order.....sigh).
So, there's a couple of different KOT clones out there that I "think" are in fact the same pedal as the DemonFX pedal. (68Pedals "King of Clone", 98Pedals "King of Tone" and a company called LY Pedals that goes so far as to actually make a counterfeit KOT.) The gut shots of all the above mentioned clones look like the same builder to me, just different branding and selling outlets. When I was looking for a KOT alternative the 68Pedals version was going for over $100 on Ebay. I saw the DemonFX version on Amazon for $59 so I snagged it since it was a low risk proposition.
I was thinking if I really liked it, I'd put myself on the AnalogMan waiting list or try to snag one of the elusive "Wednesday only" Prince of Tone pedals. Little did I realize I'd be building them myself and tweaking the heck out of them and be doing late night internet searches for NOS diodes hahaha.
Joyo has gotten into the KOT game with their new "King of Kings" pedal. The whole Joyo "R" Series of pedals are clones but very good sounding and good build quality. I've played their Tauren (Klon), Tai-Chi (Zen Drive), Zip Amp (BB Preamp) clones. They all sound and look excellent but this was right when I started building so I returned them all (Yeehaw Amazon Prime baby!) and committed myself to learning how to build them all myself.
The DemonFX build quality is not as good as the Joyo R series pedals. The finish on my pedal is starting to flake off just sitting on my desk hah. I can't imagine it holding up very well for a real gigging musician. But it's been a decent tonal reference pedal for my own Paragon tweaks and satisfied a curiosity itch for a ridiculously hyped and unavailable pedal.
I do know that it's a GREAT sounding pedal and from A/B testing videos I've listened to very close to the KOT.
The DemonFX comes with the high gain mod on an internal switch.
In fact, it was this pedal that got me interested in trying to build my own pedal. In reading the bazillion interwebz threads about the KOT and it's clones exposed me to all this talk about magical fairy dust unobtanium diodes, 4 year waiting lists, "only 10 available on Wednesdays at 1pm Eastern", etc that I was intrigued.....then I found PedalPCB.com.....my credit card bill has been piling up just a tad faster than all these capacitors, resistors, IC's, etc at my workbench. (Yet, I never seem to have that ONE value cap for my current build and bam there goes another $35 order.....sigh).
So, there's a couple of different KOT clones out there that I "think" are in fact the same pedal as the DemonFX pedal. (68Pedals "King of Clone", 98Pedals "King of Tone" and a company called LY Pedals that goes so far as to actually make a counterfeit KOT.) The gut shots of all the above mentioned clones look like the same builder to me, just different branding and selling outlets. When I was looking for a KOT alternative the 68Pedals version was going for over $100 on Ebay. I saw the DemonFX version on Amazon for $59 so I snagged it since it was a low risk proposition.
I was thinking if I really liked it, I'd put myself on the AnalogMan waiting list or try to snag one of the elusive "Wednesday only" Prince of Tone pedals. Little did I realize I'd be building them myself and tweaking the heck out of them and be doing late night internet searches for NOS diodes hahaha.
Joyo has gotten into the KOT game with their new "King of Kings" pedal. The whole Joyo "R" Series of pedals are clones but very good sounding and good build quality. I've played their Tauren (Klon), Tai-Chi (Zen Drive), Zip Amp (BB Preamp) clones. They all sound and look excellent but this was right when I started building so I returned them all (Yeehaw Amazon Prime baby!) and committed myself to learning how to build them all myself.
The DemonFX build quality is not as good as the Joyo R series pedals. The finish on my pedal is starting to flake off just sitting on my desk hah. I can't imagine it holding up very well for a real gigging musician. But it's been a decent tonal reference pedal for my own Paragon tweaks and satisfied a curiosity itch for a ridiculously hyped and unavailable pedal.
I got you, dawgI’d love to have the full blown klone with enKlosure etc, and then put a ridiculous graphic on it that in no way resembles the original authentic design;
That or
Just the enKlosure with a ridiculous circuit inside (Great Destroyer into Rainbow Machine or whatever etc), and still have a stoooopidd graphic on it…
ie — I want the look of the Klon, but I want it to SCREAM,
THIS IS NOT THE KLON(E) YOU’RE LOOKING FOR!
In fact, that oughta be the name of the pedal & the graphic
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Sorry, no photochop skills. Just imagine that on an enKlosure with knobs & footswitch.
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I use 1590BB enclosures for building dual 4-knob drive pedals, so 8 knobs and 2 switches per box. If I could get one of those Klone enclosures with no holes drilled in it I would. One of my dual ODs would be perfect in it. I wish there was more variety in enclosures. I really like the Rockett FX "Road Series" Boxes like the Caliber 45 comes in. They're nice and compact and extremely tough.
It can be done but you have to weld up all the Holes, Remove the Battery support tang on the inside
Sand the top Smooth or create a Brushed finish like in the Pedal below.
This is the Powder Blue PCB's, it's a Tight fit as the inside of the enclosure has large rounded Corners at the top!:
Heres what the Guts looks like
You can retain the the In & Out jacks & drill the power jack larger:
You have to move the Footswitch hole!
