How do you most often use your Klon Centaur?

[DocRock]

As the title asks...I was just curious as to what percentage of Klon owners use it as an overdrive versus a clean boost versus an "on-all-the-time" thickener or enhancer.

If you choose to post a comment, what guitar/amp, style of music, sonic goals, etc.? Where in your signal chain are you using it? What types of settings do you like best on the Centaur? Why?

Cheers,

Doc :BEER

P.S. Please respond only if you actually use a Klon, and didn't just try one out once at your friend's house, or "heard it was good for...", etc.....

[eric-d]

Usually as an overdrive. Depends - if the amp is set clean - the gain is up and if the amps is saturating on it's own - The gain is still up...

Usually with a Telecaster (LP and Strat too) Klon - '67 Super Reverb. For Blues. Amp on 6 and the Klon's gain on 2 o'clock. Killer tone.

[Stressfest]

Mines a very mild overdrive...i tend to play pretty dirty so a mild boost is all i need. That mid hump thing the Klons got is just the ticket to thicken up that tone for solo's...

[teleblaster]

Ive been playing mine with the gain at 10:00 tone at 11:00 volume to taste. Its the most interesting pedal ive ever owned. I like it alot with my CS esquire and my 59 gibson GA-20 ranger (16 watt amp) Makes that little amp feel more like a 50 watter through a 212 cabinet. Very swampy bluesy pedal

[Ken]

Mostly Overdrive, but the amount varies by the song...I'm always adjusting the gain pot...Anywhere from about 12:00 to full out...Our band plays Classic Rock mixed with Pop-Rock. I also use the Eternity or the TIM as a boost for the Klon. Tone is set at about 1-2pm depending on the place we are playing. The tone pot is a very powerful tool using the Klon.

Amps are Carr Rambler and I just picked up a Heritage Colonial.

If the Klon had two channels, one for light gain or clean boost and the other for overdrive, that would be one serious pedal.

Good example of Klon alone would be a song like the "Wonderful Tonight" Solo licks or another example is the Klon stacked with the "E" on a tune like Toto's "Hold The Line" Solo. The Klon beefs up the "E" for something like that.

[Mike ODS50]

I use it as both an overdrive and to boost the gain channel on my Bad Cat. If I'm using my Anderson Hollow Drop Top on the clean channel I use it as an overdrive. If I'm using my PRS ME on the gain channel I use the Klon to boost the gain channel of the Bad Cat. Most of my usage is boosting the gain channel of the amp.

[marsellus]

Overdrive.

I use a Dr. Z Route 66 amp, and either a G&L ASAT special or a Fender Tele.

It is one of 3 OD's on my board, but it's the one I use most.

Here's the chain: guitar > TU-2 > OCD > Klon > Sparkledrive > T Rex Tremster > Phase 90 > CE-5 > DD-3 > Sunny Day Delay > Little Lanilei Reverb > amp

[Fireball XL5]

99% of the time I use my Klon as a clean boost / tone enhancer and place it last in my signal chain directly before the amp. Typical settings are:

Gain = Completely counterclockwise so no added pedal gain.

Treble = 12:00 - 2:00 depending upon guitar & amp.

Output = 12:00 - wide open depending how hard I want to drive the amp.

This is my favorite way to use the Klon because it allows me to have a louder, rounder, and more saturated version of the original tone of my guitar and amp with little to no change in frequency or harmonic response.

Style of playing is blues based rock / classic rock. Guitars are Les Pauls, Strats and Teles. Amps are old Marshalls, Vox, Fenders, as well as an assortment of newer vintage voiced boutique amps.

[DocRock]

Cool, thanks for the responses, guys!!!

I've been experimenting with mine similar to Fireball XL5 above.

I'm running it last in my chain, gain set to zero, treble around noon (depending on the room), output around 11:00. I leave it on all the time, and it just seems to add this extra thickness and fullness (especially to the unwound strings) that I have been unable to find any other way. I can't even get my amp to do it...not really sure what it is about the Klon, but it is pretty damn special.

I play a McNaught Vintage Singlecut (humbuckers) and a Strat, for classic to modern rock, with occasional blues/country. (Working cover band.)

Amp is a Guytron GT100, and I also use a BJF overdrive and a BJF booster. All of this feeding into the Klon, then mixing into what the Guytron does, is the happiest I've been with my tone yet.

Ongoing journey.....

Thanks for sharing!!!

Doc

[uncle looie]

I guess I use mine as a mild overdrive to boost leads. I only kick it on for solos or fills that need a boost. I usually run the output and gain at around 10-11 o'clock and the tone from noon-2 o'clock, depending on what my rig sounds like in the room. Most often, I'm playing a 335 or a LP into a Kingsley D32.

[SFT]

no stacked w/ another pedal option?

I only use mine stacked with my OCD, which doesn't really fit into the overdrive category if you're talking about using it as a stand alone overdrive.

[DocRock]

Originally Posted by SFT

no stacked w/ another pedal option?

I only use mine stacked with my OCD, which doesn't really fit into the overdrive category if you're talking about using it as a stand alone overdrive.

Sorry, hadn't thought of that. I guess if it's on all the time, then it is stacked with whatever else you switch on.

But if you only turn it on along with your OCD, then that's different ... I hadn't thought of that, sorry.

Doc

[rastus]

I just use mine right into the input of my JCM 800. I tend to use it to boost just a tad during solos. It doesn't color the tone of my Marshall (which I like), It just gives me more of what I already love about my amp. I tend to use it more with my Fender Strat or Tele, Not as much with the Gibson stuff with humbuckers. It likes p90s too-best od I ever had!

[kenoflife]

Also use mine last with minimal gain, almost always on....sometimes when
I'm using a compressor and carb earlier in the chain I'll turn it off.
I love how it handles the BJF Honeybee and also the wah - the HB is given
the extra widening that makes it + the Klon kinda my 'signature tone' these days - this is with a 52RI tele thru a Goodsell Super17 - rock, alt-country, blues....The Klon makes that little amp sound big on stage - removed the need for an extra 12" cab - rings like a bell it does....

[teleblaster]

Sounds like your in the same ballpark as me . The klon works very well with low watt amps. Ive also found my sound with this set-up. 20 watt amp plus the klon is magic!