Kingsley Troubadour V2 tube preamplifier for 5E3 Tweed Deluxe tone 2026

Power supply included.

The Troubadour V2 was inspired by the 5E3 Tweed Deluxe amplifier.

The Troubadour V2 features one channel, the equivalent of the Bright channel on the 5E3 Tweed Deluxe amplifier.

Volume 2 is the volume pot associated with this channel.

The darker channel of the amp (the Normal channel) is not included in this pedal. However, there is still a second volume pot ("Volume 1"), which is actually a dummy control in that it does not control a gain stage.

Rather it serves only to provide the volume pot interaction that is such an integral part of the amplifier.

So while the Troubadour V2 only has the one (Bright) channel, the volume pot interaction found on the amplifier is still included with this design.

The Tone control is the same as the Tone control on the amplifier.

A Bright switch adds some subtle but useful top end and an Output switch gives modes for front of amp use, instrument level preamp use and full strength preamp.

The "Master" sets the final output level that gets sent to the power amp, amp or cab sim.

This Master is necessary to be able to have access to the more driven sounds when the Volumes are turned up, while keeping the final output at a suitable level for whatever the application is.

The sound of the 5E3 Deluxe, like all amplifiers, is a combination of the preamp, power amp, speakers and cabinet.

No preamp can realistically duplicate the sound and feel of the whole amp and as such I have never tried to design preamps or pedals that try or claim to do so.

In general our preamps are simply preamps - designed to be very similar to the actual preamps found in classic guitar amplifiers.

They deliver the most authentic amp tones when run into appropriate power amplifiers and speakers.

In some cases the sound delivered by a preamp can account for a fair amount of an amp's tone, but in others the preamp is only a small part of the sound of the amp.

I would say that in the case of the 5E3 tweed Deluxe, the preamp falls somewhere in the middle of the spectrum.

It is a quirky and relatively unique preamp that is nothing like the more popular classic designs found in Blackface amps, Marshalls or Voxes.

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