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Tone King Sky King 35W 1 x 12" Combo Amplifier - Cream

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Explore The Vintage Voicings of a Tone King Skyking Combo Amplifier

Who better to describe the Tone King Skyking than its creator - Mark Bartel

In 2012 I came out with the Falcon, where I got deep into some old school, Tweed meets Supro kind of tones. I really liked that direction and had a lot of fun with that amp, which is just so much fun to play. This year my goal was to create a bigger format amp that takes the Falcon recipe and applies it to more familiar voicings, like those of the Imperial. The Sky King layout is similar to the Imperial. It's just that the tone is a kind of a combination of the Imperial and the Falcon.

I took the voicings of the Imperial, which cover a lot of ground - you get that nice 1960's Blackface kind of sound for the cleans, and the lead channel goes from a real nice tweed to an early Marshall kind of thing - and just gave that the mojo and texture that I have with the Falcon, that just makes it so fun to play.

And there's a bonus: I added a pentode/ultralinear switch, to deliver those old vintage voicings but also modern voicings. So you can get all that funky mojo but you can also switch over to pentode mode and get a nice, crisp, sharp attack.

The Sky King's basic clean tone is a lot like the Imperial, but when you play it you can hear that it doesn't quite have the Imperial's sharpness. Instead, the Sky King has this real rounded quality; this real syrupy kind of thing - like what you have with the Falcon. But the cool thing is that you can get the Imperial kind of thing as well. Just go to Pentode and you'll get that real nice, 1960's Fender-style sharp attack.

The Sky King's lead channel tones are much like the Imperial. It's got that same kind of mid-bite thing. If you turn it all the way down it's a little more tweed, but you've got 6L6's, so it's going to give you a little different sound, with a little more beef to it. You can really hear the compression in the Sky King, too. Just like the Imperial, you can crank the mid-bite up and it brings up a peak in the upper midrange, tightens up the bass - but you still get that range.

And then there's the built-in Ironman attenuator. It adds real value to this amp in its own right, but I took it a step further and gave it dual attenuation controls; one control for the rhythm channel and the other for the lead channel so you can match up the attenuation to perfectly meet your needs."

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  • Tubes: 6L6GC (x2), 12AX7(x4), 12AT7, 5U4G
  • Output Power: 35W
  • Speakers: 1x12 Celestion G12M65 Creamback
  • Footswitch: Channel Switch and Tremolo
  • Reverb: Tube Driven Spring Reverb
  • Tremolo: Tube Driven
  • Attenuator: Ironman Attenuator Built In


CONFIGURATION:

  • 35W, 1×12 Two Channel Combo

SPEAKERS:

  • 1×12 Celestion G12M65 Creamback

PREAMP:

  • 2 Channel (Rhythm, Lead), Footswitchable
  • Rhythm Channel Controls: Volume, Treble, Bass
  • Lead Channel Controls: Volume, Tone

REVERB:

  • Tube driven spring reverb
  • Full spring 2-spring reverb pan

TREMOLO:

  • Bias modulation type tremolo circuit
  • Footswitch controllable

BUILT-IN IRONMAN POWER ATTENUATOR:

  •  Controls:  Attenuation Level (Rhythm), Attenuation Level (Lead)
  •  Attenuation Steps: 0db, -3db, -9db, -15db, -24db, -36db
  •  Dual attenuation controls (one for each preamp channel)

FOOTSWITCH:

  • Two button footswitch (channel, tremolo)
  • LED status indicators

OPERATING MODE SWICH:

  • controls operating mode of output tubes: Ultralinear or Pentode mode

TUBES:

  • 5x12AX7A, 1x12AT7, 2x6L6GC, 1x5U4GT

OUTPUT STAGE:

  • 2x6LGC, cathode biased, no negative feedback, selectable ultralinear/pentode mode

OUTPUT POWER:

  • 35W RMS

SPEAKER IMPEDENCE:

  • 8 Ohms
  • Ironman Attenuator design features:
  • Precision tuned reactive load

DIMENSIONS:

  • 24″ (wide) x 18″ (tall) x 12″ (deep)

WEIGHT:

  • 48 pounds

COLORS:

  • Black, Brown, Cream


Manufacturer: Tone King
Model: SKYKINGCRM
SKU: I296017-N-0-WHXB


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