Klon Centaur...

lustycourtier

I thought the dumbloid was exposed as another poorly built TS clone? Was that the one from Japan?

lustycourtier

richardhomer said:

lustycourtier;318574" said:

They said it would never be sold......

That's true.

JoBo paid £750 I believe....

Anyway - if you played through it, you are definitely more special than me....

I know it was only a week or two before the shop went under,( taking all customers consignment sales  guitars with them) but wow that was a bargain. If Id of known that, Id of scraped the cash together!

[Deleted User]

they wouldn't sell it to muggles, I offered to buy it but it was "not for sale" but I guess the marketing of "we sold Jobo our Klon" was worth it.

richardhomer

lustycourtier;320673" said:

I know it was only a week or two before the shop went under,( taking all customers consignment sales  guitars with them) but wow that was a bargain. If Id of known that, Id of scraped the cash together!

It wasn't actually - September of last year.

The shop closed in February of this year:

http://www.mi-pro.co.uk/news/read/bonamassa-pops-into-tone-world/018142

alanbass1

lustycourtier said:

I thought the dumbloid was exposed as another poorly built TS clone? Was that the one from Japan?

It is the one from Japan but not even close to a tube screamer - closer to a Pete Cornish G2 but with a little more grit

ThePrettyDamned

alanbass1 said:

lustycourtier said:

I thought the dumbloid was exposed as another poorly built TS clone? Was that the one from Japan?

It is the one from Japan but not even close to a tube screamer - closer to a Pete Cornish G2 but with a little more grit

It's a TS derived circuit.

Doesn't mean it sounds anything like one, though I found I could mimic some of the sounds (in YT demos, admittedly) with my Route 66 with the bass boost on, tone down a wee bit and gain up high (it has a lot of gain for a TS style pedal).  

http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/shins-music-dumbloid-standard.html

Dave_Mc

lustycourtier said:

I thought the dumbloid was exposed as another poorly built TS clone? Was that the one from Japan?

Yeah pretty much. A modded TS, to be fair, but still. Ah TPD beat me to it.

juansolo

As mentioned above, from a circuit topology perspective it is a Tube Screamer with a lot of component changes (I built one on a TS board to prove a point over on TGP). You can dial it back and make it sound like a cranked tube screamer. But it's much higher gain.

The Cornish G2 is a Muff wrapped in buffers.

Indeed I've just had this argument with myself over on TGP: http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=1467674

DavidRees

see my avatar, best overdrive pedal in the universe ...

ThorpyFX

I've said it before and I'll say it again, why would anyone spend ^ of £1200 for a pedal that although lovely still isn't better than a good amp. I've owned two silver klons and paid $250 (his rrp I think) for each from bill finnegan. I've built lots of klones including several for myself and again, all of them were lovely but it's just a pedal. As a builder myself I still can't beat simon kingsleys efforts..... Look at these guts http://i335.photobucket.com/albums/m447/thorpy6/1d5bcf525aa85e77b57f9d513e67b049.jpg And the pedal sounds amazing too. All for $375 ($400delivered) without any hype.... Still expensive but for what you get I think it's an amazing piece of kit

joeyowen

Yeah but without goop there is no magic, no imagination

joeyowen

JohnPerry

thorpy6 said:

I've said it before and I'll say it again, why would anyone spend ^ of £1200 for a pedal that although lovely still isn't better than a good amp. I've owned two silver klons and paid $250 (his rrp I think) for each from bill finnegan. I've built lots of klones including several for myself and again, all of them were lovely but it's just a pedal. As a builder myself I still can't beat simon kingsleys efforts..... Look at these guts http://i335.photobucket.com/albums/m447/thorpy6/1d5bcf525aa85e77b57f9d513e67b049.jpg And the pedal sounds amazing too. All for $375 ($400delivered) without any hype.... Still expensive but for what you get I think it's an amazing piece of kit

true dat.

RaymondLin

thorpy6 said:

I've said it before and I'll say it again, why would anyone spend ^ of £1200 for a pedal that although lovely still isn't better than a good amp. I've owned two silver klons and paid $250 (his rrp I think) for each from bill finnegan. I've built lots of klones including several for myself and again, all of them were lovely but it's just a pedal. As a builder myself I still can't beat simon kingsleys efforts..... Look at these guts http://i335.photobucket.com/albums/m447/thorpy6/1d5bcf525aa85e77b57f9d513e67b049.jpg And the pedal sounds amazing too. All for $375 ($400delivered) without any hype.... Still expensive but for what you get I think it's an amazing piece of kit

What pedal is THAT ?!

 

I think the price is worth it for his time alone.

monquixote

I think it's one of these: http://kingsleyamplifiers.com/products/pedals/20/

I'd rather like a Juggler, but I don't think you can get them in the UK unless you import them.

ThorpyFX

It's a jester, as per the link. You do have to import them but it doesn't take long (2weeks ish) and I didn't get stung for vat either this time.

Spikeedog

hey how did you manage to dodge the VAT - did you have to pay 'import duty' where they hold it to ransom at the PO (PM me if it's a trade secret!)??

ThorpyFX

Spikeedog said:

hey how did you manage to dodge the VAT - did you have to pay 'import duty' where they hold it to ransom at the PO (PM me if it's a trade secret!)??

No secret, it sometimes happens where parcels slip through the net. The best bit is the speed things get here when they slip through.

Spikeedog

...never happened to me I'm afraid but you rate the unit??

ThorpyFX

Honestly I've built and/or owned most of the boutique overdrives out there. The jester beats them all, everytime. It's because it really is like a channel in your amp, compared to a normal pedal it sounds more natural and has a complexity to the sound you can't get from even jfet pedals. Simon kingsley is a great guy to boot.