The Official Klon Ktr Professional Overdrive Pedal

The (revised) legendary Klon Centaur
Boost/OD that has captured the gearheads imagination for the last 20
years, is finally available to the masses! 100% designed by Bill
Finnegan! Possessing truly legendary tone, the Klon KTR is a modern
masterpiece that has completely transformed what guitarists all over the
world have come to expect from this Left-to-right, the controls are
Gain, Treble, and Output. The Gain setting determines how much or how
little distortion the unit is generating on its own; Treble and Output
are self-explanatory. For aesthetic reasons it mode no sense to include
the control designations as part of the screen printing on the unit,*
but here is a useful mnemonic device: GIG.


Treble Setting: Don't reflexively leave your Treble setting at noon,
as a lot of players seem to do with tone controls on their pedals. The
Treble control is capable of providing subtle gradations in
high-frequency response and is usable and natural-sounding throughout
its entire range; trust your ears, and use the control.


Output Setting: To use the unit as a true overdrive - hitting
whatever follows it in your signal path harder than your
straight-through signal would - your Output setting will almost
certainly need to be above 10:00. Different amps and pedals have
different input-stage headroom characteristics, so take some time to
experiment with the Output to find whatever setting gives you the best
results with your particular setup; often settings in the 11:00 - 1:00
range work well.


Clean-boost Mode: With the Gain control at its minimum setting, the
unit is in clean-boost mode. In this mode the circuit has enormous
headroom and will not generate any distortion of its own. Clean-boost
enables you to hit the front end of your amp harder, or the next pedal
in your signal path harder, without changing any of the essential
characteristics of the signal the unit received - instant
same-pickups-but-hotter capability.


Slide Switch: The output of the unit's predecessor, the Centaur
Professional Overdrive, was buffered, an effective solution to the
problem of signal degradation due to cable capacitance. This unit,
informally named the KTR, allows the user - via the switch - to choose
between buffered output or so-called true-bypass output the former
almost always yields a signal with more presence than the latter.


Outboard Power: Most regulated 9-volt power supplies should work
fine. Do not attempt to power the unit with more than 9 volts, as damage
to the circuitry will result, necessitating the replacement of the
entire circuit board; please note that this kind of damage is not
covered under the unit's warranty.


Battery Power: As it did in the original Centaur, the standard
Duracell Coppertop works well and sounds good in the KTR as well, so use
that particular battery if possible. Expect about ten hours' life from a
new Duracell; replace the battery whenever you hear a loss of dynamic
range, a high-pitched tone (the symptom of a very weak battery), or
anything else out of the ordinary.


Velcro: Standard inch-wide Velcro along the very top and bottom edges
of the unit's die-cast bottom will neither hide nor harm the screen
printing.


Warranty: Three years, parts and labor, to the original purchaser
with no evidence of abuse or attempted modification; please keep your
sales record.


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