10 things you didn't know about the Klon

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B2D said:
You can heal and cure skin ailments by waving a Klon over the affected area and speaking in tongues.

Every time you turn on a Klon, a unicorn is born.

No one really owns a Klon. We're all just, like, borrowing them, man.
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My approach to the Klon circuit is quite different: i am a chosen Les paul guy or better said humbucker player. If i am in the mood trying my MIJ Fender strat all my usefull settings on the amp are crap. I have to fiddle with all knobs to get a decent sound out the single coil pups. After a some years of pita i bought a Klon clone (after trying a dozen other stomp boxes lent from friends) and now i am happy camper. Just using the humbucker settings on the amp with the Klon engaged and the Fender shines.
 
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Just found some OA126 Germanium diodes to put in my Soul Food...

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I believe the KLON circuit was build for players with a hearing loss around 4000 htz.! Really, who in your audience is going to know you have a KLON, or KLONE unless you tell them? It means nothing to 99% of the people you play music for. Most people just want to hear music "played well" while enjoying a drink (or 3). While I collect gear for my own enjoyment, the real joy of ownership is when I share with my gearhead friends, not the people I play for. Obsessing over gear is just that, obsessing! Relax, and the world will come to you.
 
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Would like to have one but I can't even afford a cheap klone much less some stupid amount of money in a bidding war on ebay that starts around freeking $2K WTF over ?
 
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I hear a lot of guys saying how awesome the Klon is, but I'm not trading in my Metal Muff for one.
 
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I don't know how the Klon feels about being so controversial.
 
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Oinkus said:
Would like to have one but I can't even afford a cheap klone much less some stupid amount of money in a bidding war on ebay that starts around freeking $2K WTF over ?
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If $67 + shipping isn't out the question, there's the EHX Soul Food .

At first I really liked it, but it has a prominent mid hump that colors the tone even more dramatically than Tube Screamer type overdrives, so it hasn't been as useful to me.
 
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You don't see too many Klons around in the UK. I have come across one. A friend of mine is pretty well off. He plays a Klon through a 50's Fender Combo (can't remember which one) or a Victoria copy of the same amp. He uses various Strats with SD and BK pickups. I don't like his tone at all.
 
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Lewguitar said:
"Transparent" is just a word. It's not a sound. It conjures up a mental image but it conjures up a different mental image in every person.

Obviously, the word "transparent" conjured up a mental picture in your mind that wasn't based on reality.

It happens - all the time.

I bought a used, handwired PCE Aluminum Falcon Klon Klone a couple of years ago and liked it so much I bought two more. At the time PCE had stopped making them and couldn't fulfill orders and I liked mine so much I never wanted to be without one.

I still feel that way.

For me, the Klon circuit delivers what no other overdrive pedal has ever been able to deliver to me.

I play mostly Strats, and the Klon circuit allows me to get a great overdriven sound when I turn the Strat's volume control all the way up, and a nice clean/semi-clean tone when I turn that volume control down again.

I can and do leave the Klon on all of the time. I never turn it off when I'm plugged into it. Try that with a Big Muff. :lmao:

The Klon responds to the way I use my hands and my pick and allows me to retain the dynamics in my playing instead of making everything uniformly compressed, buzzy and fuzzy. My own personality and touch still comes through.

BTW, I've been playing guitar since 1964 and my first Fuzz was one I made myself out of a Wollensak reel to reel tape recorder because no distortion pedals were available in stores.

My second was one of those original Maestro Fuzz Tones with the gray guitar cord permanently attached to the pedal. Mid 60's.
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Someone just liked this old post so I thought I'd add something to it: as much as I like the PCE Aluminum Falcon, I like the Klon KTR I bought last year even more. More "transparent"...more "organic". Well worth the coin. And I sold my PCE Aluminum Falcons soon after.
 
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I got a J. Rockett Archer Ikon on a PGS Saturday Night Special price. (Same company that Bill contracted to build the KTR). Cool pedal, it's become a staple effect (like Tube Screamer, Distortion +, etc.) that I think will exist in one form or another for quite some time.
 
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Lewguitar said:
Someone just liked this old post so I thought I'd add something to it: as much as I like the PCE Aluminum Falcon, I like the Klon KTR I bought last year even more. More "transparent"...more "organic". Well worth the coin. And I sold my PCE Aluminum Falcons soon after.
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I'm really surprised people aren't buying up all he KTR Klons. They're the last real ones the world will see.

And for the record, my Klon is not amused by this thread. He has killed every adjacent OD on my board. Destroyed is my Handwired TS, Fulltones, and all the Bogners.

However, Klon has taken a liking to Way Huge pedals. He sees them as suitable mates. I think Klon is gay.
 
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richard parker said:
You don't see too many Klons around in the UK. I have come across one. A friend of mine is pretty well off. He plays a Klon through a 50's Fender Combo (can't remember which one) or a Victoria copy of the same amp. He uses various Strats with SD and BK pickups. I don't like his tone at all.
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Jeff Beck has a couple. ;)
 
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