NUX Queen Of Tone Dual Overdrive | A Klon Centaur + Bluesbreaker in one box for $100?! Review & Demo

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This is the NUX Queen Of Tone dual overdrive pedal!

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The Queen Of Tone is two individual overdrive pedals in one enclosure: it combines the NUX Morning Star – their take on the classic Bluesbreaker circuit – and the NUX Horseman, which is the brand’s Klon Centaur homage.

Find out more about the Queen Of Tone here:

The Morning Star is a low to medium gain transparent overdrive, while the Horseman goes all the way from a dirty clean boost to full-on raucous high-gain tones. Both sides of the pedal have a second mode, too – the Morning Star has the Shine mode, which adds more top-end sparkle to your tone, while the Horseman’s Silver mode adds in more headroom and gain. You access these second modes by holding down the relevant footswitches for around half a second.

There’s also a couple of handy switches on top of the pedal, one allowing you to toggle between true bypass and buffered bypass, and the other is an Input FET Stage (IFS) switch. When activated, the IFS switch basically pushes the front end of your amp a lot more, giving you a decent amount of boost. (This is a feature you can see on boutique amps by the likes of Dumble, by the way.)

Despite all the options, though, the Queen Of Tone is fairly simple to control – each side of the pedal has volume, tone and gain controls. The magic comes when you stack the two sides of the pedal together, and there’s a Routing toggle switch on the front of the pedal that lets you choose which side of the pedal runs into the other. And of course, all of this is done to NUX’s typical price structure – which is pretty darn affordable. The Queen Of Tone costs around €100/$100.

So, all this said, the Queen Of Tone should be an exceedingly versatile dual overdrive pedal – and that’s what we’re going to test in this video! Today, I’m using my Fender Telecaster and my Epiphone Les Paul (for single coil and humbucker tones) to test the Morning Star and the Horseman sides of the pedal individually, and then together, and all in a range of my favorite musical styles – from country, pop, blues and funk to indie, rock, punk, metal and more! Then at the end there’s a loop with each guitar where I tweak the pedal’s controls to show you all the extremes you can get with it.

Here’s the links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:11 Introduction to the Queen Of Tone
01:12 Morning Star (Bluesbreaker) side features
01:44 Horseman (Klon) side features
02:18 Other pedal features
02:43 Today’s rig and plan

Humbucker tones
03:37 Clean reference tones and turning on the Queen Of Tone
04:03 Pushed clean tones
05:13 Indie tones
06:55 Classic rock tones
08:49 Hard rock tones
09:50 Alt rock tones
10:24 Punk tones
11:30 Progressive rock tones
12:26 Metal tones
13:36 IFS (Input FET Stage) Switch test

Single coil tones
14:17 Clean reference tones and turning on the Queen Of Tone
14:47 Pushed clean tones
16:15 Indie tones
18:10 Classic rock tones
19:58 Hard rock tones
21:15 Alt rock tones
21:42 Punk tones
22:35 Progressive rock tones
23:29 Metal tones
24:26 Running the Queen Of Tone into an overdriven amp

24:51 Epiphone Les Paul classic rock loop
29:58 Fender Telecaster indie rock loop

34:59 My thoughts
35:23 Queen Of Tone sounds discussion
37:38 Advantages of dual overdrive pedals
38:35 The Input FET Stage option
39:06 What I didn’t like: switching delay
39:49 Tonal character considerations
40:22 What other dual overdrives are out there?
42:29 Final conclusions and goodbye

My setup was as follows: I ran the Queen Of Tone straight into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. Oh, and I used my TC Electronic Ditto Looper to play the loops.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head:
Boss RC-10R Rhythm Loop Station:
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!):
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Enjoy!


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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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