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There is no ground plane in Nik's Klon, yeah few resistors are swapped around or moved. I'm sick like a cat (flu) so I won't give it much attention in next few days I'm afraid

1uF's all the way according to Nik. I'm kinda suspicious to 1uF value in PSU but again, I have a man flu and I'm fighting here for my life now. Other NP caps are either missing or destroyed so no chance for recheck. All resistors are still here so I will give'em some more attention ones I'll be cleared from ebola that eats me from the inside. I'm kinda on the same page with juansolo on the resistors really I will defo check in what circuitry blocks he used what - will see how much sense does it make if any

I will also check the pot's taper - they're custom made indeed.

BTW - where the Silver Pony story fits here?

Yeah, it's mainly made of drama and astatine

Didn't mean to piss on your chips man. Sorry about that.

Have at it, and I'll keep schtum.

I'm not really touched bruh I don't really like vinegar on my chips but it just makes me wonder. Sometimes it takes a lot of labour, days / months of data collection and it's really fuzzy feeling to be feed-backed in that fashion. But I do understand that people mainly don't get as excited in minor circuit changes as me, and I get as well that this is DIY forum where things that turns me on doesn't really matter.

Needless to say - I'm really sorry if I came across as an over-sensitive twant.

I'm not really sure anyone is that bothered any more about the Klon

Yeah, de-gooped klons pop out way to often to make people engaged. Maybe it's just me but I'm always excited on things like one added cap in Canadian Marshall JCM800 horizontal input, or slightly different layout in Rev B board on Silver Jub, or two cap swap in 60's VOX tonebender... But then again - I'm a geek, not DIYer... Plus I do appreciate that Nik trashed 2k£ investment just in sake of confirming things. He could easily clone the box without doing what he done

Part of the reason I've stopped sharing my findings and general forum presence is your-alike attitude. It's sad, as it takes time and often cost a lot of money...

What;s the serial number on this guy?

There are 3 versions of the PCB and it looks like this is v2. The 10k is there at the input, but there's no 100k at the output. I was 99% sure that that 100k was the only thing added in v3, but it also looks like one of the 15ks is missing, so maybe he added that in v3 (I had thought it was a v2 addition). I also see some metal films where I'd expect carbon films.

The PCB that Ceriatone posted for their kit looks like it's based on v3. You can build any of the three version on a v3 board, and they all sound the same.

To be honest, I'm pretty disappointed to see yet another competitor appear. EHX kind of killed the klone market, but then it resurged due to the Soul Food's cheapness. Rockett pretty much killed it with the Archer, then started cheaping out on their diodes and lying about it. My sales are already pretty low. Guess it's time to focus on something else.

Serial is unclear - it's #200+ region

Could you shed some more light on V1, please?

Maybe I'm becoming less prone to hype as I get older (combined with the New Zealand tall-poppy tendency), but I never really cared about the Klon to begin with. It was always more of a mildly curious, "What is all the fuss about?", rather than the forum impression of "ZOMGWTFBBQPWNSAUCE! I NEED ONE IN MY LIFE!"

TBH I have never built the klon, I'm here for the info mainly but than again - I'm a geek. I may actually build it now just to tick it off, call it a day and move on

The main differences are lack of 100k on the output and 2x68k divider on the switch. Other than that all electro's are 1uF and 15k R11 is missing There's two more changes but I was asked to keep them private for now. I'm sure Nik will make them public sooner or later.

And yeah, board layout changed to the one known from Martin's work before #300 serial. That's the space below IC2 where 100k and 68k resistors ware added

So the other day I got Klon Centaur early PCB from Nik @Ceriatone and I think you may like to have a look as well.

Nik bought early Silver Centaur to clone it's enclosure and kindly de-gooped the shit outta it to confirm values...

...but

This is early example and it's slightly different to the board traced by Soulsonic years ago - both spec-wise and layout-wise. It's not ground breaking difference but it's there.

Ones I'll be allowed I will post the list of component differences. At one point CeriaKlones will be also available to purchase

The board will stay with me for few days until I'll finish my work with her and then will head home back to Malaysia

Enjoy

Welcome, Pawel.. your website and Mark over at tagboardeffects were what got me started in this hobby.. so your kind of like my dealer and I need me some MORE!

Look forward to your site revamp and hope you can shed some light on the amp building process as there is a lot of interest on here as of late.

Cody

I'm sorry for late response - I've been busy lately

This is utter nice what you're saying. Love to DIY spreads like a flu virus

My website plans died and burned but I have a little FB page under https://www.facebook.com/superlead.co.uk/

Unfortunately no further plans for full blow website and such - Kind-off I lost interest in doing such + family and job related tasks are keeping me busy enough

take care

p

I'm totally addicted to TWD. Season 5th starts 12.10. Many months passed so I'm really excited

Thanks again

Actually I'm building amps mostly new days. I don't do much pedals, but I just found in my part stash few Brian's and CJ's boards I bought or scored in trades and I decided to pop in and check what's up ;-)

Soon I'm going to rebuild my old website under new(ish) domain and I'm working on few my own designs (only one pedal, but with glass inside) so I may be able to trow some interesting things back to the community

Thank you for warm welcoming guys

I'm a diode destroyer? God damn right!!!

Hi guys, Pawel here. Former operator of turretboard.org also known as a Sinner on freestomp

I see a lot of buddies here from other places so I have decided to join