While an original Klon Centaur can fetch a king’s ransom on the used market, there are a variety of much more affordable options that try to stay true to the original design.
The Best Klon Centaur Clones (Above $150) Some say it doesn’t compare to the original, but considering it was built by Finnegan himself, the KTR is the closest to the Centaur a pedal can get, according to its creator, who – by the way – thinks it sounds exactly the same.Ĭonsidering the variety of devices inspired by the Klon Centaur, we decided to organize our content in the following categories – click to jump to the one you are interested in:Ĭlicking/Tapping on the images in the galleries below will open a pedal description and a demo video! A toggle was added to switch between true or buffered bypass. The original Centaur took up a beastly amount of pedalboard space, and the KTR (manufactured by Klon’s inventor Bill Finnegan himself, but contracted out to make it compatible with mass production) features a smaller footprint. The Newer Centaur: Klon KTRĬlick image for video. (You can find a more comprehensive history of the Klon here.)Ĭircuit geeks interested in knowing more details about the Klon circuit and its cloning history must watch this video by The Living Room Demos or this one by JHS. Finnegan stopped building the original model in 2009 – at that point, he had hand-wired 5,400 of them. Within a few years, the pedal gained legendary status, also because of the maker’s dedication to customer service, and to hand-wiring every unit that left their shop. It could be used as a supplement, or as the focal point of a rig, and many famous players loved it as a clean boost and many others as an “amp-in-a-box.” The point being, it excelled at everything.
Its 18v circuit, combined with a circuit optimized to minimize compression, made it extremely dynamic. With an initial price tag of $225 (hefty for 1994), the Klon Centaur provided transparent, glassy mojo, while adding pleasing harmonic content to whatever signal chain was lucky enough to go through it.
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