DIY WORKSHOP BUILD YOUR OWN KLONE PEDAL
The demand for Klon Centaurs has driven prices into the stratosphere. All of the originals were hand-built by Bill Finnegan, who joined forces with a couple of MIT engineers to design this most-revered boost/overdrive pedal. By stompbox standards, it’s a complex and highly original circuit, and after producing about 8,000 units between 1994 and 2000, Finnegan decided he’d had enough.
With demand so high and supply cut off, the inevitable happened: a mini-industry of Klon cloners has sprung up over the past two decades. But it’s only Malaysia’s Ceriatone that has gone to the trouble of recreating Finnegan’s original enclosure and PCB layout – and the result is the Centura Professional Overdrive.
Ceriatone offers various options. You can buy the printed circuit board and enclosure or get the PCB fully assembled. You can also buy the pedal pre-built, or a full kit with a variety of finishes and graphics. I can’t resist the chance to build my own and learn more about this fabled circuit in the process.
BOUTIQUE BUILDING
Ceriatone’s Centura kit is an advanced build but only because the amount of components invovled is higher than usual for a DIY overdrive, and the instructions don’t hand everything to you on
