Klon

Bill Finnegan started building the Klon Centaur by hand in the early 1990s and began selling it in 1994, aiming for the sound of a cranked tube amp at a volume that wouldn't get a band thrown out of a venue. He built around 8,000 by the time he stopped in 2008, citing the difficulty of keeping up with demand at a sustainable price, and the originals now change hands for five-figure sums. Finnegan came back in 2014 with the Klon KTR, a redesigned, outsourced version that's stayed in production since. It's one pedal, effectively, but it's spawned an entire clone market that we cover almost as often as the real thing. Here's what we've written.