VFE Pedals Merman
Another great overdrive from VFE Pedals based on the Klon Centaur. You can find schematic and info on their website here.
Klon
Klon Centaur – True Bypass
Here’s the Klon again. I wanted one with board mounted pots and for a smaller enclosure. You might be able to fit this in a 1590B with low profile jacks, but it will easily fit in a 125B. It’s designed for 9mm PCB mount pots, though it might be difficult to find the dual-gang Gain … Read more
Dual Klon Buffer
In an effort to make my own personal pedal board better, I’m building buffers at the input and output of my signal chain. As space and DC jacks are always a premium, I thought to build a dual buffer in a 1590A enclosure. The Klon Buffer is great and since it only uses half of … Read more
Klon Centaur – Bare Bones
This layout is the legendary Klon Centaur, but without the charge pump. The charge pump is present in the original to keep the 2nd opamp from clipping. But since there are diodes before signal even reaches that IC, it may not matter. Check out this thread on FSB for more info and schematic. Without the … Read more
Klon Centaur
Don’t want to spend two grand on an original? Yeah, me neither. Regarded as one of the best overdrives of all time, the Klon Centaur seems to be something that every guitarist wants on their board. This one’s not going to fit in a 1590B (if you want that, check out Madbean’s Kingslayer), but you … Read more
Keeley Oxblood
Info about the original: The Keeley Oxblood Overdrive is our response to everyone kloning pedals. We wanted to build a new circuit that let players blend from perfectly clean to amp-crushing roar. We wanted that impossibly huge and focused midrange that makes any guitar… Strat, Paul, Tele, sound incredible. We knew we could do it our … Read more
Klon Buffer
Who doesn’t love a Klon, right? Here’s the buffer stage of the Centaur. The original Klon uses one side of a TL072 for the buffer and the other for gain stage. If you’re building the just the buffer, you can get away with a TL071. I’ve laid out a perf and PCB for each.
Klon Centaur Silver Edition
Keith at BYOC reverse engineered a silver edition Klon when developing a PCB and noticed an error on soulsonic’s 2009 schematic which was a couple of swapped resistor values around the Treble pot. He also noticed a few value discrepancies which probably just amount to the difference between the gold and silver Klons. The swapped … Read more
Klon Centaur [Rev 2]
[Updated 4th July 2014 – correction to treble control resistors] The older Klon layout was starting to annoy me for a few reasons so I decided to re-do it and start a new thread as this one is obviously currently unverified, and so all discussion here can relate to this layout. This is a couple … Read more
Klon Centaur – Bare Bones – True Bypass
[Updated 4th July 2014 – correction to treble control resistors] And an even simpler version using true bypass switching, and so omitting the buffer components. Verified.