I’ve definitely posted about this circuit before, so i’ll keep it to a minimum.  The Klon Centaur is basically the end-all for overdrive circuits.  Tons of boost, smooth compressed overdrive, and everything in between.  If you’ve been tirelessly searching for the perfect overdrive for ages but havent yet been able to find it, this is what you’ve been looking for.  Here’s two Klon variants I built recently.

Credit to Ryan “Shaggy” Hull for the title to this post!

Klons!  For years these were THEE high demand overdrive pedal on the market, fetching hundreds of dollars to get on the year-plus waiting just to buy one, or going for even more on eBay.  Now that the manufacturer stopped making them (albeit temporarily) they can go for over a grand!  Holy crap.  People flip their shit for this pedal and rightfully so. Its a nicely built buffered overdrive, with a good tonestack in there, but where it differs from other pedals is its huge boost potential!  The thing has boost for days, which helps to drive your amp into its own distortion.  That coupled with the clipping-overdrive that the pedal produces and you get into some really sweet sound natural overdrive.

This is my take on the original unit.