Recommended Posts. MesaMonster Posted April 5, Posted April 5, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Super Bass Posted April 5, Author Members. SonicVI Posted April 5, Bones Malone Posted April 5, SharkMinusBear Posted April 5, I disagree, bjf makes you a better player. Sarum Posted April 5, Can 'O worms. And here come the hipsters with their constant repeating of the word: KLON!!! Army of Darkness Posted April 5, The Klon is an idiot trap baited with hype.
Jaron Posted April 5, I think it's the fragile harmonics. That's something else. It looks like a toaster. It also looks like an early Cylon. Do you know how hard it is for a pedal to pull off that look??? Crystal lattice, and also. If you want something almost as good for.
Rogueweez Posted April 5, So if you want a Klon style pedal, and you are also looking for heavy blues and rock tones, the Oxblood could make a great addition to your rig.
It is a one man operation, with Nordvang personally designing, building and testing all of the pedals. The No. The first of these is the Wingman. It features 2 Klon style circuits and gives you the option of stacking them together. In essence, this allows you to alter the amount of gain in the circuit. There are also internal dip switches for each side and you can use these to alter the bass response in the circuit.
This is made with a Klon style circuit, and a Marshall Bluesbreaker style circuit. So if you want a Klon style pedal, as well as a broad range of vintage blues tones, this could be a great option too. Conversely, if you are looking for a great Klon clone, but are more budget conscious — then you should look at the Nux Horseman.
And with the Horseman you get a lot of pedal for your money. This gives the pedal more gain, headroom and richer harmonics. So the look and feel of this pedal is not the same as some of the others listed here. But tone is what matters. And so if you want to capture the legendary Klon tones on a budget, the Horseman could make a great choice.
It is a compact, versatile pedal that offers amazing value for money. It also features a simple 3 knob design and is based closely on the original Klon circuit. Unlike the original Klon, the default set up of the Sugar Drive is true bypass.
However, MXR have given you the option to easily change this via a switch on the side of the pedal. Clearly mocking the hype that surrounds the original Klon Centaur, the product description from Way Huge reads as follows:.
They say it relies on Alien technology bestowed upon our ancient forebears, producing a sound so dazzling that it generates a heatless auditory light that will liberate the consciousness of any guitarist who kicks it on. Adjusting the gain control initiates a form of fusion heretofore unknown to science, bonding rich harmonics with your guitar signal to create smooth, transparent overdrive. Yet despite this tongue in cheek description, the Conspiracy Theory is no joke. Its circuitry closely mimics the original Klon, as does its design.
But unlike the Archer, it is made of aluminium and as a result is quite a bit lighter. It is perhaps a little misleading to include the Klon KTR in this list. This made the KTR smaller in size. It also allowed the pedals to be mass produced. The KTR has the exact same controls as the original Klon.
Given the reputation of the original Klon, the KTR also proved very popular. Yet production of the pedal ceased a couple of years ago. It is a little unclear why, but whatever the reason — you can no longer buy the KTR new.
Again, because of the hype that surrounds the original Centaur, the prices of the KTR have started to rise. Due to the popularity of the original Klon Centaur, there are now literally hundreds of Klon clones to choose from. It easy to be drawn into the hype that surrounds the original Klon.
It is instead to suggest that the differences between Klon clones are usually heavily exaggerated. All of the pedals listed here have a slightly different tonal profile. And in some cases they have very different features. There's quite a bit of gain on tap, and that, combined with the hard-clipping diodes means the Centaur can hit distortion territory if required.
At the maximum settings on the gain control, it's an almost square-wave distortion, caused by clipping inside the op-amp. Most players, however, value its touch-sensitivity and run it at much lower-gain settings.
Key to the circuit are two filter networks that amount to a clean blend. The first is controlled by the dual-gang gain control. As gain is increased, a filtered clean signal that runs in parallel is reduced in amplitude, and vice-versa. This is another reason why players running it at lower gain settings find it to be the 'cleanest' boost or drive that they've played.
The second network is more simple, adding a bit of 'thickness' back into the tone. This applies a low-pass filter to the clean tone, which is then blended back into the distortion sound. Each of these waveforms - the two filtered and the distorted - are radically different to one another.
It's their sum that makes the Centaur so interesting. All of this detail serves to point out that most of the magic happens in these filter networks and the gain stage itself. Though the original tone control is interesting - an active high pass shelf above Hz - modifying the EQ stage doesn't affect the essential character of the circuit as much as you might expect.
As a result, when buying a Klon clone, as long as it's a faithful reproduction of the original circuit, you can purchase based on looks, as modifications like different diodes are likely to have a small impact. The Centaur stacks pretty well with other pedals, especially at lower gain levels, and so some boutique options that offer utilities for further tweaking EQ, or indeed having two pedals in a single enclosure are good options.
Famously, the Centaur had a buffer which some people lionise to the point of building it into a separate pedal. Thus, most klones are either buffered bypass or selectable between buffered and true bypass.
Finally, the original had a massive enclosure, so as always, we tend to say that size should be one of the most important considerations. After all, if you can't fit it on your 'board, it doesn't matter how good it sounds! Alex Lynham is a gear obsessive who's been collecting and building modern and vintage equipment since he got his first Saturday job. Besides reviewing countless pedals for Total Guitar, he's written guides on how to build your first pedal, how to build a tube amp from a kit, and briefly went viral when he released a glitch delay pedal, the Atom Smasher.
Guitar World. Included in this guide: 1. Wampler Tumnus Deluxe. Changes from original: EQ stack, 'hot' switch. Bypass: Switchable. Reasons to avoid - Additional controls are a break from the original - Bypass switch seems fragile. Mosky Golden Horse. Changes from original: Bypass. Bypass: True.
Reasons to avoid - None at this price. J Rockett Archer. Changes from original: None. Bypass: Buffered. Reasons to avoid - Smaller, cheaper options now available. Ceriatone Horsebreaker.
Changes from original: Second pedal. Reasons to avoid - Not cheap. MXR Sugar Drive.
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