The Sky King would be my personal overall preference because it's a bit more flexible, and there's a crazy 3-D quality to the clean channel that's hard to describe.Īll of them can get quite gainy, but the lead side has a shape to the tone curve that just doesn't resemble Marshall for my tastes anyway. The Metro has power scaling that is independently settable for each channel, and the Sky King has two independent Ironmans. But if you're looking for an amp that's set and forget in terms of channel and gain volumes, you might find it an imperfect match. If you're gigging classic rock or blues all night long that's no problem and the thing responds to guitar volume changes just fine.
The built in Ironman is common to both channels, so you can't independently set gain and relative channel volume. Of the three, the Imperial is the least flexible. Any of them, with an Exotic BB set with the gain up full get you a JTM sort of tone, but pedal or no pedal, I don't see much Marshall in any of the lead channels. Clean channels are definitely Fender, but I find that the lead channels are as much Vox as anything. Footswitch: two push buttons, one for channel change, the other to turn on / off the tremolo. Integrated power attenuator, 'Iron Man' Tone King model, 5 levels of attenuation. Tremolo by modulating the bias of the power tubes with two settings (speed and depth of the effect).
I absolutely love all three, but I gotta say, there isn't very much Marshall in any of them. Effects: reverb tank to lamps with isolated spring with a dimmer switch. I have the Metro, the 20th Imperial and the Sky King.
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