I love what the KLON does, but I don't find it as satisfying when pushed to maximum gain. The KLON seems to work best when the amp is set to the edge of distortion. I also find them to be inherently bright, but easily tamed via the tone control. It's a loud pedal! I don't think I've gotten this much volume out of any other overdrive pedal, and I have owned many. For full gain settings, I prefer my TS circuit and La Grange pedals.
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Originally posted by 67Mopar View PostI love what the KLON does, but I don't find it as satisfying when pushed to maximum gain. The KLON seems to work best when the amp is set to the edge of distortion. I also find them to be inherently bright, but easily tamed via the tone control. It's a loud pedal! I don't think I've gotten this much volume out of any other overdrive pedal, and I have owned many. For full gain settings, I prefer my TS circuit and La Grange pedals.
Disclaimer, I haven’t played any actual Klons, just Klones.
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I also find the KLON to be quite amp-dependent. With some amps it sounds like the best OD ever... Others, not so much. I suppose this is true with just about any device, pickups too. My Firebird sounds great through my Jubilee, not as good through my (now sold) VOX.
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Your opinion on the KLON Centaur Overdrive?
Originally posted by 67Mopar View PostI love what the KLON does, but I don't find it as satisfying when pushed to maximum gain. The KLON seems to work best when the amp is set to the edge of distortion. I also find them to be inherently bright, but easily tamed via the tone control. It's a loud pedal! I don't think I've gotten this much volume out of any other overdrive pedal, and I have owned many. For full gain settings, I prefer my TS circuit and La Grange pedals.
I only picked up fairly recently that the Klon circuit shines at either end of the gain pot, but in the middle of the gain sweep it loses treble. I hadn’t noticed until I read about it in the BYOC Green Pony (Maxon OD-820 clone) product description - sure enough, when I went and used the Silver Pony with open ears, there it was. You can read about the Green Pony here:
It’s a fabulous overdrive, and brings just what the Klone is missing (for me at least)
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good for making a blackface fender sound like it is turned up more than it is."Technique is really the elimination of the unneccessary ... it is a constant effort to avoid any personal impediment or obstacle to acheive the smooth flow of energy and intent"
Yehudi Menuhin
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I've borrowed a KTR, and really liked it at all gain levels...even maxed out. However, what it does wasn't something completely unique. I can get that sound with other types of overdrives as well. I didn't think it was magical or anything- it was very good, though.Administrator of the SDUGF
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I purchased a La Grange pedal last week. Since getting it, I haven't used my KLON at all. Not that the La Grange sounds like a KLON... I just like what the La Grange does for my sound. It has a boost feature works independently, which is a nice feature to have. Two pedals in one actually. Boosting the La Grange with the KLON may be something to try.
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Originally posted by Mincer View PostI've borrowed a KTR, and really liked it at all gain levels...even maxed out. However, what it does wasn't something completely unique. I can get that sound with other types of overdrives as well. I didn't think it was magical or anything- it was very good, though.
I use the full range of my tone pot and often turn the guitar volume control down to 2 or 3 to get a rootsy Americana kind of clean tone when the KTR is on.
I’ve not played any one pedal that can do everything that the KTR does. I think they’re great.“Practice cures most tone issues” - John Suhr
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Since this thread, I built a BYOC Silver Pony, supposedly a 1:1 clone. I like it with a very clean 6v6 amp, with the drive on the pedal about 3/4 up. It is a great, dynamic overdrive without too much of a mid boost- the 6v6 amp has enough mids.Administrator of the SDUGF
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I play with an Archer IKON always switched on in my pedal chain with Gain at 11 oclock Output at 2oclock and Tone at 12 oclock -I like the low mid growl and sparkle it adds -especially hitting it with an optical compressor. I've played original Klons, Tumnus, KTRS and all of them are wonderful -honestly there isn't enough difference to merit buying a vintage Klon Centaur for me -that's just something to worry about at gigs..
For people who like to drive their amps hard or play real dirty, I'm not sure a Klon clone is the best choice unless it is used to gain stage another pedal, as a Klon will reveal a lot of your playing -and that isn't necessarily a good thing. There is no hiding with a KLon inline.“For me, when everything goes wrong – that’s when adventure starts.” Yvonne Chouinard
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I have an EHX Soul Food, which is a loose Klone, but I like it a lot.
One of the two best local blues rock guys uses an Archer Ikon with an original TS-9 into a modded BF SR. After seeing him play last year, the tones he was getting inspired me to drop the bluegrass stuff and get my Strat back out full time. FWIW, I think he ran the TS-9 into the Archer. Also had an HBE CPR compressor, old Script Phase 90, Buddha wah, and a TC delay. He was twisting knobs on all of them all night, and got an insane amount of sounds from a pretty simple setup.“I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt
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Originally posted by ErikH View PostHahaha. I love the label and arrow below the diodes. "These are essential". That's great. Looks like germanium diodes. They get a nice squishy sound and feel to them.
My KTR is the “squishiest” and most organic sounding of the bunch.“Practice cures most tone issues” - John Suhr
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