Klon Centaur Original

Controls & Settings

Gear Description & Specs

The Klon Centaur Original is one of the most legendary overdrive pedals ever created. Designed by Bill Finnegan in the 1990s, the Centaur is renowned for its transparent overdrive character and unique ability to enhance an amplifier’s natural tone rather than masking it. Its circuitry blends a clean signal with a driven signal, preserving clarity and articulation even at higher gain settings. Guitarists value the Centaur for its rich harmonic response, dynamic touch sensitivity, and exceptional performance as a boost pushing tube amplifiers into natural breakup. The pedal’s simple control layout—Gain, Treble, and Output—makes dialing in tones straightforward while still offering a wide range of sounds from clean boost to smooth overdrive. Because of its limited production and cult status, original units have become highly collectible among guitar enthusiasts. The Klon Centaur remains a benchmark for transparent overdrive pedals and continues to influence countless modern designs.

Klon overdrive