bifurcation
Well-known member
I'd like to preface this with what will become obvious very quickly: I have have no idea what I'm talking about.
Compared to @Chuck D. Bones, @PedalPCB, (or frankly most of you,) I'm the equivalent of a six-year-old sticking Legos together.
That said... man, do you know how crazy the Klon circuit is? SO. CRAZY.
Look at that weird tone control! Like, the power section is a sort of weird charge pump that outputs +18V, +9V, -9V, and +4.5V!
That's gotta be useful for something (like mixing a super headroom drive and a fuzzy fuzz in the same pedal?)
...and I never realized that the Klon essentially has a buffer/splitter (sort of) and summing amp. It essentially splits the signal into three paths.
So, me being me, I can't help but think you could take advantage of the charge pump and splitter and make some sort of parallel pedal of insanity, yeah?
Starting with the most common mod, you could un-gang the clean knob and the drive knob, so the clean can be independently mixed in like the Catalinbread Giygas.
There's also a mod to add a bass control.
I bring up the Giygas because I'd like to see something nastier in the gain section.
The original Klon just has simple clipping diodes.
Pffffttt... what is this, a DS-1?
Nah, the Sick Ass Klontm needs something nasty in that gain section. That TLO72 is spitting out 35db of gain, why not slam that into a Fuzzface circuit, or a Big Muff circuit, or my favorite ... the hyper-fuzz/super-fuzz?
That upper network in the original Klon Centaur is there to add more clean bass to the output.
Maybe you could take out the bass-filtering resistors/capacitor lowpass filter and stick in a TS drive circuit so you have parallel drive, fuzz and clean controls?
There's probably more I could uneducatedly theorize about, but I've hit my image limit.
*ahem* So... like I said, I have no idea what I'm talking about, but it's easy to get inspired by the Klon Centaur circuit!
Compared to @Chuck D. Bones, @PedalPCB, (or frankly most of you,) I'm the equivalent of a six-year-old sticking Legos together.
That said... man, do you know how crazy the Klon circuit is? SO. CRAZY.
Look at that weird tone control! Like, the power section is a sort of weird charge pump that outputs +18V, +9V, -9V, and +4.5V!
That's gotta be useful for something (like mixing a super headroom drive and a fuzzy fuzz in the same pedal?)
...and I never realized that the Klon essentially has a buffer/splitter (sort of) and summing amp. It essentially splits the signal into three paths.
So, me being me, I can't help but think you could take advantage of the charge pump and splitter and make some sort of parallel pedal of insanity, yeah?
Starting with the most common mod, you could un-gang the clean knob and the drive knob, so the clean can be independently mixed in like the Catalinbread Giygas.
There's also a mod to add a bass control.
I bring up the Giygas because I'd like to see something nastier in the gain section.
The original Klon just has simple clipping diodes.
Pffffttt... what is this, a DS-1?
Nah, the Sick Ass Klontm needs something nasty in that gain section. That TLO72 is spitting out 35db of gain, why not slam that into a Fuzzface circuit, or a Big Muff circuit, or my favorite ... the hyper-fuzz/super-fuzz?
That upper network in the original Klon Centaur is there to add more clean bass to the output.
Maybe you could take out the bass-filtering resistors/capacitor lowpass filter and stick in a TS drive circuit so you have parallel drive, fuzz and clean controls?
There's probably more I could uneducatedly theorize about, but I've hit my image limit.
*ahem* So... like I said, I have no idea what I'm talking about, but it's easy to get inspired by the Klon Centaur circuit!
