Introducing - the Kingsley Bailey and Kingsley Keep

The Kingsley Bailey uses the same enclosure and power amp as the Keep, but features a different pre-amplifier design. It is available as a 15W or 30W tube head built into a small chassis and covered by a steel cage.

The controls are: volume, treble, bass and master, as well as a 3-way mode switch and a 3-way power switch (full, half and quarter power). The mode switch has bright, standard and EQ lift modes.

Like the Keep, the Bailey also has two inputs. Input 1 is the cleaner of the two with the fattest sound. Input 2 adds a gain stage for more pre-amp drive.

The rear panel features speaker jacks for 4, 8 and 16 ohms, a footswitch jack and jacks for pre-amp out and power amp in. While not a buffered effects loop, this patch point between the pre-amp and power amp allows better performance for delay and reverb pedals, as opposed to running them into the front of the amplifier.

Sound-wise the Bailey is similar to the Keep, but its treble and bass controls allow more fine tuning than the Keep's single tone control. Sound clips of the Bailey will be posted soon.....

The power amplifier uses two EL84s (four EL84s for the 30W model) in cathode bias operation with a 12ax7 phase splitter, while the pre-amplifier uses two 12ax7s. Power supply rectification is provided by a 5AR4 tube rectifier. The circuit is hand-built in the same way and with high quality components just like the rest of the Kingsley line.

The amplifier is also available with an optional footswitch that controls the output of the amplifier. It features a poentiometer that varies the output of the amplifier from quarter to full power. There are many great amplifiers that overdrive nicely as the volume is turned up and that clean up nicely as the guitar volume pot is turned down. However, the clean tone is always going to be at least somewhat quieter than the overdrive sound. This optional footswitch plugs in to the back of the amplifier and gives the user a way of controlling the output level for clean or overdrive. When activated this functions like a footswitchable volume cut. Use this variable wattage control to cut the volume of the overdrive to a suitable volume. Now roll back your guitar volume control to clean up the sound and step on the footswitch to bring the output of the amplifier back to maximum. In this way you can set the levels of the clean and overdrive sounds to be different or the same.

Dimensions: 16" wide x 7.5" tall x 8" deep.
Weight: Bailey 15: 22 lbs, Bailey 30: 25 lbs

The introductory price for the 15W model is $999 US and $1300 for the 30W model.

The optional footswitch costs $100 US