Crossfire22
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I've been sucked into the klon series lately. Loving the tone I get from each variation. Anyone made a switch recently and can offer any insight?
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stratamania
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Expect to spend a lot on a tone chase.
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But this is mostly a forum for guitar assembly we dont tend to get into tone debates and so forth.
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But this is mostly a forum for guitar assembly we dont tend to get into tone debates and so forth.
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Mayfly said:Logrinn said:
<smirk> :icon_thumright:ccasion14:
At least not as much as elsewhere and it remains gentlemanly for the most part...
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Crossfire22 said:
I bought a JRAD Archer Icon Gold pedal, that you see on the You Tube video for The Pedal Show in this Thread. To me, it's close to the Klon Centaur Gold. After letting go of my RAT pedals years ago I have relied upon amp distortion and gain only.....and been working on controlling that noise within the confines of a home studio...
However, I bought a Kemper and some of their distortion/overdrive profiles aren't so great to my crooked ears, so I was in the market for a pedal...
The original Klon fad passed me by and there's no way I'm hunting an original down now.
The Archer Icon's spiel is that it contains similar componentry to the Klon....take that for what it's worth, sound wise, they are very close.
Running through the profiles on the Kemper, it didn't like working with a Plexi Marshall profile, but it did the magic of pushing the 'front end' of the amp section in a Fender Twin profile. Did similar, but with not as much dynamics, with the Fender Deluxe Reverb profile. Also 'pushed' the AC30 profile but I'm not sure if it also started highlighting the brightness of the treble boost tone of that amp just a bit too much.
It sweetly pushes into distortion (as opposed to old RAT pedal I had which reached a point when it was just a boost, then suddenly bowel-evacuating distortion) & if the JRAD pedal behaves like the Klons, then that must be the magic of that class of pedals. A boost then sweetly going into distortion...
If you're a player who uses the volume knob and rhythm hand for dynamic volume attenuation, these pedals could be left on all the time and you set it just as it breaks up and adjust the attack of the signal at the guitar....less would keep it clean and harder would push it into distortion.
