Deep Dive! All About the Klon Centaur Germanium Clipping Diodes!
The venerable Klon Centaur has invaded just about everyone’s pedalboard in one form or another, but are those famous germanium clipping diodes really the “magic“ that makes the Centaur so popular?
0:00 - Intro
2:18 - Part 1: History of the Klon Centaur
2:57 - Bill Finnegan, designing and selling the Centaur
6:40 - FSB trace of S698
10:32 - Schematic released, Klon Centaur stops production, KTR
12:31 - Significance of Klon diodes
15:47 - Part 2: Diodes, basic electrical characteristics
19:04 - Forward voltage curves
22:09 - What we know about the Klon Centaur diodes
24:19 - How Finnegan chose the diodes
25:02 - forward voltage discrepancies
30:53 - Klon diode replacements
35:54 - Finnegan is running out of the original diode
37:53 - Part 3: Clean Boost Mode?
40:52 - Listening test intro
42:28 - Beginning of listening test
45:57 - Oscilloscope test intro
47:35 - Beginning of o-scope test
51:26 - Outro
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