Klon Centaur...

Stevepage

Over £1000 for an overdrive pedal. Really?!

spacecadet

http://i1001.photobucket.com/albums/af135/roscoe2911/5560307605_20d7d60de9_z_zpsb53486b3.jpg

beed84

Really.

In defence of these sky high prices, the latest Klon's are branded with:

"kindly remember: the ridiculous hype that offends so many is not of my making"

I've heard Matt Schofield use his at one of his gigs.  He sounded ace, he always does, but it didn't make me think, "Shit, I need a Klon".  

There are cheaper alternatives. I simply couldn't justify that amount on a pedal, even if I did have the money.

capo4th

Please not again

RaymondLin

If I have one, I'd sell it and get a guitar and Soul Food. 

not_the_dj

"kindly remember: the ridiculous hype that offends so many is not of my making" 

Oh it is. All the announcements about the KTR, then the delays helped to build the hype. Small batch runs to keep them exclusive and prices high as they instantly sell out. Demand outstripping supply as usual. 

 Why not get on board with a regular manufacturer for an official licensed version to his spec to satisfy the demands of the market? 

 Although if that did happen we'd be in a "that's not a proper one" situation, only the originals have the magic and all that guff.

randomhandclaps

WTF is a Klon Centaur?

xSkarloey

No idea. Aren't they a team from Macedonia currently playing in the qualifying rounds of the Europa League?

monquixote

beed84 said:

In defence of these sky high prices, the latest Klon's are branded with:

"kindly remember: the ridiculous hype that offends so many is not of my making"

It might as well have a winking smiley after it. 

That idiotic sentence actually killed any remaining respect I had for him.

beed84

I just want to clarify that I'm not siding with the pedal making man, I also think the "kindly remember..." statement is cringeworthy. It could end with "...however, the money that I'm now making because of it is!"

PolarityMan

I dont get the hype, no where near enough gain for teh metulZ

hywelg

beed84 said:

I've heard Matt Schofield use his at one of his gigs. 

No longer on his board. FTT SOV2 MS Sig (buffered), Vemuram Jan Ray, MP Deep Blue Delay x 2, Sonic research tuner.

Fantastic Fingers is what gets (most of)  his tone. SVL Strat and TR Sig amp helps too, but he'd sound great with a Squier and a HRDx.

allicio

hywelg;315657" said:

beed84 said:I've heard Matt Schofield use his at one of his gigs. 










No longer on his board. FTT SOV2 MS Sig (buffered), Vemuram Jan Ray, MP Deep Blue Delay x 2, Sonic research tuner.



Fantastic Fingers is what gets (most of)  his tone. SVL Strat and TR Sig amp helps too, but he'd sound great with a Squier and a HRDx.

Take it your a fan then c?

57Deluxe

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meltedbuzzbox

Lovetone pedals, *Vintage* tube screamers with the 808 chip or whatever shite it is. 

Even a DOD Gonkulator is stupidly priced. 

Even the shredmaster was fetching £250+ for what was a £40 pedal. 

It all comes in cycles. Klons will come down in price again.

jeztone2

lets face it, the guys brilliant at marketing, but I said that on the other 6 posts we've had about this....Yawn

beed84

hywelg said:

beed84 said:

I've heard Matt Schofield use his at one of his gigs. 

No longer on his board. FTT SOV2 MS Sig (buffered), Vemuram Jan Ray, MP Deep Blue Delay x 2, Sonic research tuner.

Fantastic Fingers is what gets (most of)  his tone. SVL Strat and TR Sig amp helps too, but he'd sound great with a Squier and a HRDx.

I just assumed it was.  Goes to show you then, that it makes very it little difference having a Klon....

dilbert

Why in the name of God, does everyone get uptight abut the price of these pedals ?. 

 I couldn't give a toss what a Centaur costs. There are enough decent sounding pedals on the market these days to satisfy anyone and everyone at all price points, so who cares if there are pedals going for upwards of £1,000. It's just a market economy at work exercising the supply and demand business model. If people can afford it and/or are dumb enough to pay it, that's down to them.

ICBM

+1

Just to put it into perspective, you can spend £250,000 on a 1959 Les Paul Standard, or you can buy an Epiphone Les Paul Standard which arguably does very close to the same job for £250. That's a 1000:1 price difference.

Going on the same scale, you can buy a second hand Boss SD-1 for about £20, so the "best overdrive pedal in the world" (assuming that's what the Klon is) could be £20,000 and still not be any more expensive in relative terms.

I wouldn't spend £1000 on a pedal any more than I could afford to spend a quarter of a million on a guitar, but if I could then the price of the pedal probably wouldn't bother me if I really wanted one.

Dave_Mc

^ Yeah )

Still you could make a pretty good argument that most threads in a forum are kind of pointless. From that point of view I think it's fair enough to discuss stuff like this.

not_the_dj

Dave_Mc said:

^ Yeah )

Still you could make a pretty good argument that most threads in a forum are kind of pointless. From that point of view I think it's fair enough to discuss stuff like this.

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