Studio Daydream HMPS: KCM-OD GOLD V9.0

When you want a little bit more from your K-Style pedal, you might want to consider the 'Extremely tuned' KCM-OD Gold V9.0. Studio Daydream have added a number of cool options for clipping, bypass and low-end injection and have built this one from the best parts they could source. The result is a beautifully balanced overdrive that delivers everything the original did and then some. Maybe unicorns exist after all!

From the website:

"Fastidiousness About Parts:

A specially designed housing that has been shaped from aluminum is used for the case of the V9.0, giving it a housing that is worthy of being called high-end. A military-grade DALE RN55 resistor with high precision and high reliability is used on the circuit board that is double the normal thickness with gold leaf patterns and gold plating. In addition to the Panasonic and WIMA film condensers, all of the electrolytic condensers used are luxury audio-grade products by Nichicon. The germanium diode, which is an essential part that determines the quality of the distortion, is a rare Japanese deadstock product by UNIZON. It is a level above the recent non-brand products that have terrible inconsistency. Even the knob is special, as it uses a large Oxblood (reddish brown) pointer. Not only do the carefully selected parts brush up highly-rated sound even more, they will thoroughly demonstrate their performance in very intense situations, whether it is during a live performance with lots of noise or during studio recording."

Apologies for the strangely focused Burgs on intro and outro. I had some camera noise problems and had to flatten it a bit.

Today's tools:

Guitar: 2011 PRS Studio; 2021 70th Anniversary Fender Broadcaster; 2017 Relic Depot LPB Tribute by Andrew Shelgov of Moscow, pickups by Ben Bailey at JJ's Guitar Pickups.
Amp: Fender Deluxe Reverb Tone Master
Cables: BOSS and Achillies Amps
Power Supply: Eventide PowerMax by Cioks
Mic: Samson Airline77 (me)
Camera: iPhone 11 Pro and Canon D60
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum
Computer: 2017 Apple iMac Pro, 2.5 GHz 14-Core Intel Xeon W, 64 GB 2666 MHz DDR4, Radeon Pro Vega 64X 16 GB
Software: Logic Pro X, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Compressor.

Video made after solicitation from me. I wanted to have the KCM-OD's because they're awesome.

[Haze]

Glad I subscribed to your channel Brett. You're one of the best on YouTube for pedal demos. Keep up the great work. Cheers from Motown!

[Neil-Aspinall]

Always like your 'Dan' playing style Brett.

[joenice]

That's the best sounding klon I ever heard

[chrissilverhand]

Classy Brett, both the pedal and your playing.

[ditchgator]

Sounds great through the TMDR😎👍
Been dialing my Casino through mine and think this pedal could be pretty cool with them...?
By the way...May New Years happiness be with you and yours.
NZ., and Sydney Harbor had THE best fireworks display for Jan 1😎👍

[MrDoctorsmith]

Good to see you going through a real amp Brett. Cheers.

[brettjames]

Love a humbucker into a deluxe reverb and a nice overdrive. Sounds really cool.

I picked one of those tonemasters up in a guitar shop a week ago, suprisingly light.

The tele/broadcaster always sounds awesome into a deluxe.

Hope you are Getting by ok mate. Can't be easy for a muso with what's going on here with Covid at the moment.

[GRBAquatics]

Awesome Comprehensive Demo/Review. Thankyou. I am Looking to Get a K-style Pedal and this looks very versatile. Cheers

[massimos]

Awesome playing Brett great Sounding Pedal and rig!

[leonmax]

Just got this pedal and I don’t understand how come your volume knob is a half way and It does not sound that loud my pedal the knob is at almost unity and loud as hell 😊 if I go further to the 11 o’clock it will blow the windows out

[bchuang]

just wonder what "KCM" stands for? anyone?

[Grant_Ferstat]

I've been resisting even watching this 🙂

[MrScrofulous]

That turns your truly awful clean tone into something quite wonderful. I like the Klon/Klone thing....very easy pedal to use, adds a muscular thickness to any clean tone. I have an ARC KLone gifted me from a nice chap on TGP, has always served me well. It's not that complicated a circuit and people do over-think them.