I am planning on a new amp

[CudBucket]

do you really have to spend hours to get the tone that you want? i have seen the control panels of the MKIV and RK, and to be frank, i think i need a rocket sceintist to do the settings. is it not user friendly? i have seen reviews and some had them for weeks and are still tuning them! sorry for the question but all i could do now is ask (i dont have it in my country, which is my other big problem!)

I think that's a myth that has been exaggerated by the internet. Especially in the case of the Road King. You basically have 4 sets of the same controls. Learn one and you've learned them all.

 

[kissing]

can anybody explain to me in layman terms wat the progressive linkage does?

 

[nathan28]

Progressive Linkage allows you to pick what set of power tubes you want to use. The RKII has 6 power tubes: it has 4 x 6l6's and 2 x el-34's. What progressive linkage allows you to do is to pick whether you want to run a pair of el34's, a pair of 6l6's, two pairs of 6l6's, a pair of 6l6's and a pair of el-34's or two pairs of 6l6's with the one pair of el-34's.