That Pedal Show | 12 months ago
Josh JHS Made A Modular Klon Centaur-alike… Can Dan Do The Same?
Welcome to the show! And very possibly the last Klon show we do. For a while anyway. Because the very, very, very clever people at JHS Pedals recently launched the Notaklön, a Centaur-type OD pedal in kit form. Genius idea, genius marketing.
The easy thing would have been to buy one and compare it to Mick’s Klon. But. But but but but but… this is That Pedal Show and we like to be a little more, erm, enquiring. Thusly, Dan has attempted to deconstruct a Klon circuit, using other pedals to try to explain what’s going on.
Can we do it? Why would we do it? Welcome to That Pedal Show.
Enjoy the episode!
The JHS Notaklön https://jhspedals.info/products/notaklon
Pedals and stuff used in this video…
• TheGigRig Three2One
https://www.thegigrig.com/three2one
• Lazy Bear Custom Parallel Splitter
https://www.lazy-bear.co.uk
• MXR 10-Band EQ
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2Yx95Wz
USA: https://bit.ly/3EhAiPx
• Ross Distortion
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3LNWIxH
USA: https://bit.ly/3Q0bTX0
• Empress Para EQ
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3uP2MAj
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/m5JNAD
• Boss GE-7
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3m5XYPe
USA: https://bit.ly/3NMbnYO
• JHS Summing Amp
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2DjEe7G
USA: https://bit.ly/3ddeatS
• TheGigRig Wetter Box
https://www.thegigrig.com/wetterbox
• Origin Effects DCX Boost
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/46aiCn6
USA: https://bit.ly/445aMcy
• Lazy Bear Custom Volume Pot
https://www.lazy-bear.co.uk
• Klon Centaur - head very gently to Reverb or eBay
• TheGigRig QMX4
https://www.thegigrig.com/quartermaster
• Crazy Tube Circuits White Whale
https://crazytubecircuits.com/white-whale
0:00 Intro playing
1:45 Why are we making this show?
3:40 Klon circuit brief explanation
4:58 Dansclaimer!
5:45 Today’s amp reasoning
7:44 Sounds Of The Klon Centaur
11:10 Three distinct signal paths
14:35 The Ross Distortion & hard clipping
16:45 Dual-gang gain pot
19:35 Why the DCX Boost?
20:21 Hear the Klon tone control
22:30 Sound 1: Low Gain Clean Boost
29:40 Still not quite getting the clean tone
33:00 Sound 2: Mid Gain Overdrive
36:05 Hear the DCX Boost
37:40 Sound 3: Higher Gain Overdrive
40:15 Reconstructing it backwards
42:22 Closing thoughts
Guitars in today’s show
• 1961 Fender Stratocaster - Mick’s video here: https://youtu.be/WOMHUQeHGRQ?si=Sz4oEy4GzppoWbVs
• New-ish Gibson USA SG Standard with Maestro Vibrola - no video yet
• Gibson Memphis 1958 ES-335 - Mick’s video here: https://youtu.be/Ha82vk1wLyA?si=_MGExnobH_n-c56f
• Gibson Custom True Historic ’57 Les Paul Godtop. Murphy Aged - no video yet
Amps in today’s show
• 1979 Fender Bassman 70
• Mesa Boogie 212 vertical cab with EVM12L speakers
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