Nathaniel Murphy Has Questions: Klon Centaur
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- What is the Klon? What is it all about? Why is it so valuable? Nathaniel Murphy has questions, and this time our Vintage Buyer, Daniel Albert, has the answers. Learn more about the legendary Klon Centaur, and find out why it deserves a spot on the Mt. Rushmore of pedals in this month’s installment of Nathaniel Murphy Has Questions.
The Klon Centaur is a guitar overdrive pedal developed by Bill Finnegan between 1990 and 1994. The pedals were made manually by Finnegan. The Centaur is characterized as a "transparent" overdrive, meaning it adds gain to the signal without significantly altering the tone of the guitar.
About 8,000 units were built between 1994 and 2009. Guitarists praised the clear, uncolored tone of the boosted signal. The circuit had unique characteristics, most noticeably the use of an IC MAX1044 voltage converter. The voltage converter drives 18 volts to the operational amplifier which is the core of the circuit; at this voltage the response of the amplifier is different from at 9 volt, since its slew rate depends on the voltage supply. The higher the voltage supply, the higher the order of harmonics the operational amplifier will generate, and the more "metallic" the sound.
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A little weird to see Nathaniel play like a “normal” guitarist instead of the tentacular three-handed stuff we all know and love :)
Lol totally
I've never heard Nathaniel talk before and in my mind I always pictured him as a Southerner, big surprise today haha
What's unique about it is that it sounds a lot like an overdrive. Wow
Excellent choice with Overseas. Probably the greatest lead line (and tone) of 2020.
And Isbell indeed does use a Klon Centaur on it
Was pleasantly surprised by it, a truly awesome pick
Maybe an episode on tweed and blackface Fender amps?
This! And the blonde & brown ones too while they're at it.
I think it’s important for people to understand that what the ask price is and what the sale price are is what matters. At this point these are considered vintage. We as guitarist tend to look at the price of a pedal depending on what it sounds like. Coincidentally we don’t do that with Bursts vs reissues.
I really love the jams you guys do. Keep up the good work!
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The strat sounded beautiful
Loving this series 👏👏👍😀😀
Thanks!
I have a Ceriatone Centura and it's pretty good. I prefer the gain past 1 o'clock at least. Anything lower doesn't sound special to me at all.
I understand this is kind of an educational video but I have a hard time believing someone like Nathaniel Murphy knows bugger all about this especially the price of them!
I would love to see an episode on japanese lawsuit guitars!
Good to hear the Primal Scream...right on🥃
Could you do an episode on nitrocellulose lacquer?
Such a great player
That SG is beautiful. Is that the new oxblood? It sounds so good.
That was a great strokes cover
Cool idea. Care to solve the fretboard material debate once and for all?
I have solved it, just ask your wife, which color looks best with the guitar :D
Save some cash and buy a Mythos Mjolnir pedal, one of the best klones out there! It's ridiculous that used Klon KTR's are being sold for $500 on up.
You're missing a zero on that number.
@@OmgWtfTsuji KTRs around 500-1000, original Klons 3000-5000 ...
@@stanislavmigra oh shit, my bad. I didn't see the KTR part
Totally agree, a lot of good clones for much less money. I bought my KTR b4 the "craze" for $200 from guitar center.
It is an overdrive... Simple answer Yes. Long answer It's a hybrid as it acts as a soft clipping drive until you hit about 1 o'clock and then it slowly winds up into a fuzzy overdrive
Question for future episode: are boutique amps (ie Two Rock) that much better than the amps they were inspired by? Fender blackface etc.
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New topic. What makes the Marshall JCM line so good? Hope to see it.
You misspelled JMP
I think the Klon just does the make your guitar and amp sounds better thing more than anything else in the world without coloring your sound. Turn that drive almost off and jack up some volume and it sounds like my amp and guitar are doing 20% better than they were before. It is hard not to have it running becuase it makes me and my equipment sound better.
You get a like purely for playing Overseas. One of my favorite Isbell songs
What strat is that? Looks so nice.
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Fender vs Squier, and/or Gibson vs Epiphone?
Try a mosrite fuzzrite to sound good ;)
Lol...in this episode, CME, purveyors of luxury goods to people with more money than sense, question the sanity of people with more money than sense buying luxury goods. 😂
+1
Ampeg Scrambler used to be the rarest most sought after pedal.....
Does Nathaniel do lessons?
Who was that masked band?
DAM tonebenders
Just technicaly speaking, Klon circuit is pretty clever and un-usual for OD pedal.
“Oh really?”
Please 😂😂. In 2021 an internet musician who works at one of the top stores in de US does not know about the Klon Centaur hype? C’mon 😂😂
He’s been too busy practicing 😜😂
Until recently he only did a little video work for them. He actually earned a living as soccer coach. Though he probably wants me to call it “football” also being from a different country might have something to do with not buying into the BS American guitarists have bought into with pedals. Nathaniel admitted at the start of the video that he’s more of a player than a pedal nerd so it checks out.
Mount Rushmore of pedals that doesnt include a MK II tonebender... Sacrilege
The new normal...
mentions the strokes over John Mayer and real guitarists.... horrible information in this video please send me a link where I can buy this for $1500 - $3000.... Ill buy it today..... They are over $5000 today
I really don't get the hype. They sound like they have too much mid range and not enough gain.
There’s no denying that the Centaur is a good overdrive pedal, but really, it’s nothing special, sonically. It’s just a good basic overdrive, and the only reason they cost so much money is because a lot of guitarists are lemmings who can’t think for themselves and will simply glom onto whatever their guitar hero uses. Most musicians are extremely reluctant to innovate. I think the tc electronic MojoMojo sounds better than the Klon, and you can pick one of those up for $30-40 USD used in mint condition. But, most guitarists just don’t have the self-confidence to proudly use a $30 pedal, when they fear being judged for how “boutique” they gear is, especially the lawyers with living room queen rigs that never actually gig.
I used to get regular praise for my bass tone using a zoom 506 on stage. It’s the music that matters, not the gear!
Yeah, I think the boutique thing is overblown. In the vid they mentioned Pearl Jam. In 1992 they sounded great through Ibanez Sonic Distortion and other similar pedals, which at the time weren't exactly considered snob gear. Oh well. If ya got the bucks, I guess you go fot the gusto.
Are you forgetting the five hundred thousand dollar reverb listing?
Are you forgetting what a joke is?
@@liamtahaney713 I don't know why the bank terned me down for a loan,, what do they know about a once in a life time investment oppertunity.
"The first boutique pedal" what?? lol. not even close.
What was the first boutique pedal?
@@LuchoJ2110 Arguably Fulltone in 1991, but Way Huge is also very close in dates, also Prescription electronics a little bit later.
Of course if we want to be fair, Roger Mayer was already doing the same thing in the 70s, but nobody called it "boutique" also BK Butler in the late 70s.
So a lot of people were doing the "boutique" stuff before the Centaur.
First would be late 90s, easily 10 years before this. Foxxrox, Mike Fuller, Crowther, Stamps, Anderton, Demeter, Prescription, Buddha, Voodoo Lab, Menatone, address all equally old or significantly before.
That song was pretty weird...
The klon and all these fenders with no provenance going for mega bucks are the two most over inflated pieces of kit out there. It’s like 2007 all over again these days
Ahh yes The Klon Centaur... the Clickbait of guitar pedals.... a 30 dollar OD3 sounds better then this thing