KLONdike Gold

[Chuck D. Bones]

This is the VFE Merman, a hot-rodded Klon Centaur. It is designed for true bypass only, no buffered bypass. Peter Rutter really outdid himself this time. LEVEL & TREBLE do the usual thing. The GAIN pot, normally a dual, is separated into DRIVE, the dirty channel, and WARM, the clean channel. Splitting the control allows them to be mixed in any proportion, including both full up. The BOTTOM control is the bass clean bleed. The COMP control is in series with the clipping diodes, allowing their effect to be softened. This little box is capable of doing eveything the Centaur does, plus it can sound like any of the derivatives including the Kliche Clean, Lenny, etc. Believe it or not, I could not find anything that I wanted to change in this pedal. I currently have D9E diodes installed.

I have it on good authority that PedalPCB will release a version of this board in the near future.

 

[Barry]

Looks awesome, your really getting good with that paint swirl process

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

Looks awesome, your really getting good with that paint swirl process

Thanks. I'm learning. This is my best one so far. One thing I've found is that the busy background helps hide the edges of the labels.

 

[Mourguitars]

Fantastic CDB !

If this come out , im in for sure

Mike

 

[dawson]

Awesome paint-job, and the name "KLONdike Gold" -how Klever!
It looks like it sounds great, if that makes any sense..

 

[music6000]

Did you Guy's miss something:

Sea Monk Overdrive - PedalPCB.com

Compare to VFE Merman

www.pedalpcb.com

 

[Barry]

Did you Guy's miss something:

Sea Monk Overdrive - PedalPCB.com

Compare to VFE Merman

www.pedalpcb.com

That just posted today!

 

[music6000]

This is the VFE Merman, a hot-rodded Klon Centaur. It is designed for true bypass only, no buffered bypass. Peter Rutter really outdid himself this time. LEVEL & TREBLE do the usual thing. The GAIN pot, normally a dual, is separated into DRIVE, the dirty channel, and WARM, the clean channel. Splitting the control allows them to be mixed in any proportion, including both full up. The BOTTOM control is the bass clean bleed. The COMP control is in series with the clipping diodes, allowing their effect to be softened. This little box is capable of doing eveything the Centaur does, plus it can sound like any of the derivatives including the Kliche Clean, Lenny, etc. Believe it or not, I could not find anything that I wanted to change in this pedal. I currently have D9E diodes installed.

I have it on good authority that PedalPCB will release a version of this board in the near future.

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Was there any Bait on that Hook?

Update : This is what I use in all my Klon Builds:

 

[Bobbyd67]

I never build all my madbeans vfe board :/ I should really make a nice mouser cart full of what I need ....

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

I have 2 other VFE boards in the queue...

 

[Gordo]

Very nice Chuck. That paint looks like faux pearl/mother-of-bowling ball. I love it!

Agreed too. I use the pedal a lot to torture the front end of my live rig.

 

[Gordo]

The other killer vfe is the dragon

 

[chongmagic]

Looks great Chuck, love the paint job. I agree that the Dragon is awesome as well.

 

[geekmacdaddy]

Great job, great report.

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

Thanks, Man.

 

[MightySmallElectrons]

I don’t have a Klone of any kind yet...I think the Sea Monk will be mine.

Gold swirl is fantastic!

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

I think you will like it. Klons are low-gain overdrives. Think "dirty boost." They don't make much distortion on their own. Like Gordo said, it's best for overdriving the front-end of a tube amp.

 

[Nostradoomus]

Kick ass Chuck!