Ben Randolph
Power User
Ceriatone Centura here. The hype is real. Totally transforms a vintage Fender amp to be even more awesome.
I had an original Klon Centaur (Silver one) I bought for $400. I don't remember the year but I sold it (early '2000s?) for $1200 to pay for a PRS Custom 22 (the one you see in my avatar picture - still here, still my favorite PRS out of the 40 or so I've ever owned).
I loved the Klon but I was really hard-pressed to justify the $400 I paid for mine used back in the day. Selling it was just a financial choice, I wanted that PRS (and I've never regretted it once).
The prices the Klon goes for now is patently insane.
Hype mostly, but also an unusual circuit in terms of filtering and negative feedback loops (which also affect filtering). I doubt very much that the “vintage” of diodes matters at all, unless a batch had a manufacturing defect.
A lot of drive pedals are extremely primitive. Klon is slightly less so. It’s hard to tell if this is an accident or deliberate design choices, but in the end it doesn’t really matter. I’d pay $100 for it if it was a normal sized pedal (50% of which would be the profit margin to the manufacturer). $5K though? Come on now.
No objections from me . I love this little thing.For the sake of the lolz, I would love to see a cheap Mosky Silver Horse being modelled....
@FractalAudio : I can happily buy you one right of Aliexpress
Here's a good history on the pedal development. I think the design was intentional considering it was done by two MIT engineers and not just by a tinkerer.
I saw he ordered a KTR but didn't read anything after that point.Cliff was going to finally add one last I heard, had one coming in the mail (newer red one). Wonder where that left off? .... excuse me if it's been discussed, I didn't see it.
I saw he ordered a KTR but didn't read anything after that point.
But AFAIK, the "Klown" thingy is recurrent in this forum (and other)...
Now, to be honest AliExpress has the (pretty good) Mosky SilverHorse for the people that can't live without it... and It's getting it's own legend... but stay dirt cheap