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Toan is in the goop.
That is what is so great about the JHS DIY kits. They are the only DIY kits I know of that include authentic tone goop as part of a the base price.
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Toan is in the goop.
The regular tumnus uses schottky diodes which have a forward voltage drop around the same level as the germanium diodes in the Klon. I've switched schottkys out with germanium in some of my own Klones and as long as the schottkys and germaniums measure roughly the same I can't honestly tell much of a difference.
The big deal with the germanium tumnus was Brian claimed he'd found exactly the same diodes as used in the original klons. It's possible but there a lot of germanium diodes that look just like this so
Original batch
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The later batches are definitely using different germaniums. They look like the generic Chinese 1n34a you can still buy from tayda.
Later batch
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It doesn't really matter as long as they all measure in the right range. It's mostly just bragging rights and higher resale values.
The main advance being that it combines both the golden and silver Centaurs (longpress to switch, IIRC). On my rather shortterm shopping list.
There's a couple of mods they might be doing with the toggle switch but there is no difference between gold and silver klons apart from the colour of the enclosure.
Don't the silver models offer a bit more gain? That's what many people say (but I would actually rather believe you).
Love the graphic.This is my favorite.
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No the circuit is identical between the gold and silver klons. The only circuit revisions happened in the first 300 units or so and they were mainly around stopping the unit popping when engaged and slightly more mids.
There was a project released by Keith at BYOC called the Silver Pony and it had some mods to the circuit, one of those upped the gain slightly. The RYRA clone is based on that project. He originally claimed to have degoooed a Klon and found some circuit differences but never backed it up with any evidence. That might be the origin of the Silver klons being different thing. It was a silver klon he degoooed but the original Klon tracing was also a silver Klon S698.
Have any of you guys compared a Centura to a Horse Breaker? @Eagle ?
However, I still think it's not a bad idea to have two somewhat different variations in a compact pedal such as the Horseman.
Who buys hundreds of pedals?I have hundreds of great pedals from lots of different makers and companies
Who buys hundreds of pedals?![]()
Someone who is 70 in the next couple of months and has always liked playing with pedals and likes to have choice in a studio.Who buys hundreds of pedals?![]()
FFS you can’t just help yourself can you.Probably lots of us but for most of us it's not at the same time. It's also not all the same pedal in many colours.![]()