Behringer Centaur: $69 vs. $9,000 Klon Centaur! Is This Affordable Overdrive a Game-Changer?

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  • Опубліковано 30 січ 2025

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  • @Acemechanicalservices
    @Acemechanicalservices 3 дні тому +18

    My $30 Behringer tube screamer certainly works well enough

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому +1

      Right on!👍🏻

    • @peterschaefer1665
      @peterschaefer1665 2 дні тому

      Yeah, even with a 100% tarrif that Trump will put on products made in China, good deal.😊

  • @marksguitars5617
    @marksguitars5617 12 днів тому +10

    sounds pretty good, I wonder if anyone has dared to do a side by side with a $95,000,000.01 version. This sounds great on the single coil pickups, great demo and play, Brad. Thanks

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  12 днів тому +6

      That’s a great idea for a video! Now I just need to make the scratch to buy the real deal.

  • @victorvaldenegro4001
    @victorvaldenegro4001 День тому +2

    I got mine 3 weeks ago. Definitely worth the $!

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  День тому +1

      Yeah I dig it!!

    • @victorvaldenegro4001
      @victorvaldenegro4001 День тому

      @ it sounds better than my Mosky Golden Horse. That pedal actually sounds pretty good too.

  • @normheidt4909
    @normheidt4909 3 дні тому +5

    As always great input!

  • @allenmitchell09
    @allenmitchell09 2 дні тому +1

    Behringer has upped their game in the past couple of years. I got their 8.channel interface for recording drums and I couldn’t be more happy with it.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  2 дні тому +1

      I need something like that...

    • @guitarz99
      @guitarz99 2 дні тому

      Their power amps are excellent, and 1/4 the cost of crown or escape

  • @MeinFiesesEgo999
    @MeinFiesesEgo999 3 дні тому +4

    Cool Demo!

  • @ShreddingFinn
    @ShreddingFinn 3 дні тому +4

    If I'm ever looking for a hardware version of this. This would be it.

  • @chrisalexander1661
    @chrisalexander1661 3 дні тому +2

    Great review!!

  • @DCayce
    @DCayce День тому +1

    The original Klon Centaur selling for anything more than a common pedal is what’s called “Idiot Bait.”

  • @unclerog
    @unclerog 2 дні тому +1

    Howdy from Billings Montana... Cool video Brad... I'm always looking for pedals and things kind of like that because I track guitar direct when I record my stuff... I also have a couple of Roland Cubes...Micro Cube and Cube 40 of which I record off the direct outs... So it's kind of like the same thing too... But yeah anyway I might have to try one of these things.... Thanks much bud!!!

  • @bassadelica
    @bassadelica 3 дні тому +3

    Sold! Actually sounds great been on the fence on this thing.
    100% agree with a pedal on the front end of a modeler or your DAW, my theory is that the impedance of your pickups load correctly into a pedal so the responsiveness is more what a player is used to. When you plug straight into a 1meg ohm on DAW or modeler it's way too high, Tim pierce has said he throws just a Boss EQ in front at least to take some top off.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому

      Yeah that’s a good call!

  • @1683clifton
    @1683clifton 2 дні тому

    Living up to the name everyday! Bad Brad, you're a real one man.

  • @borisvandruff7532
    @borisvandruff7532 17 годин тому

    The companies making clone pedals are doing an amazing job. My JOYO Dark Flame (Revv G3 clone) is one of the best pedals I’ve ever owned.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  17 годин тому

      That's awesome! I love seeing people find pedals that work for them.

  • @daveycrockett9447
    @daveycrockett9447 3 дні тому

    Damn- that pedal sounds amazing. I am buying one- will use your link! Thanks for sharing

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому

      Awesome thanks Dave!

  • @PaulLoughrin
    @PaulLoughrin 13 днів тому +2

    Very nice, Brad!

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  12 днів тому +2

      Thanks bro!!!!

  • @nicklorusso5898
    @nicklorusso5898 3 дні тому

    Bro you rock! just found your channel. Great playing and fun to watch.

  • @jamesbond4633
    @jamesbond4633 День тому

    I bought 2 of these and they are amazing!!! I have a couple of other Centaur klones but this sounds way warmer and better, You can't beat it for the price and sound. How they can sell it for such a low price with a germanium crystal is Unreal!!!!! I have 2 pedal boards and 2 amps. I play a Gibson ES335 into a Twin Reverb and a Japanese 72 Fender Strat into a Marshall DSL 40c. They both sound so awesome!!!!

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  22 години тому

      That's awesome!

  • @slowfinger2
    @slowfinger2 3 дні тому +2

    11 is the sweet spot, for sure. Germanium diodes are nasty irritable sounding beasts. Those sound great tamed by tone.

  • @gearViewmirror
    @gearViewmirror 3 дні тому

    Great playing and presentation! Love your groove and attitude, hi👋🏼 from a new sub in Switzerland🎸🤘🏼🎸

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  2 дні тому +2

      That’s awesome, thanks for the love! 🙏

  • @Harpking0911
    @Harpking0911 2 дні тому

    nothing beats a tweed bassman or super reverb straight in, but i'm a trad blues guy, keep the vids coming bro

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  День тому

      Thanks, man! I hear ya!

  • @jezzbass1826
    @jezzbass1826 3 дні тому +4

    I’ll get one now thank you

  • @ReverseFlash68
    @ReverseFlash68 2 дні тому

    I just checked with Sweetwater on Sunday. They have 431 back orders and they’re not expecting any end until July where they’re getting a shipment of 800 just FYI.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  2 дні тому +1

      WOW hot item....

  • @kotsiosarmw
    @kotsiosarmw 3 дні тому +1

    Awesome! Since you've been using the ampero stomp it would be really cool if you could a Van halen or a general marshall plexi patch! cheers

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому

      I have not gotten that exact tone dialed in yet may have to work on that

  • @creativenativeproductions
    @creativenativeproductions 3 дні тому +1

    very useful review.... Thanks!

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому

      You’re welcome!

  • @jerryhatrick5860
    @jerryhatrick5860 3 дні тому +2

    Sounds nice enough?
    But what the rig your running it through?
    Your modeler or an Amp?
    I'd like to hear it through an Amp. Micd up.
    Curiosity .
    Recently traded off my strymon sunset for a ehx hot wax and really digging it..
    Made money off the trade also.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому +2

      I'm running it straight into a modeler.....would sound even better into a tube amp.

  • @JDStone20
    @JDStone20 3 дні тому +3

    Believe it or not, Behringer makes good stuff. Everyone clones/uses the same circuits, Boutique makers included, because they work and people like the sound of them. Very few novel circuits in the pedal world.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому +3

      Yeah you're right on!

    • @JDStone20
      @JDStone20 3 дні тому +2

      @@badbrad Yeah, thank you! Love your channel and playing! There is a whole website that tells that circuit is used in each pedal brand. I feel that if you have the money, support the makers in the industry you appreciate. Like for me, you have JHS Pedals and Wampler pedals that I like for smaller maker stuff, Boss/Roland and Digitech for the larger manufacturers. I also think it is more important to use your ears and find what works for you instead of following trends. That is what the people did when they started the trends, they used what worked for them, and it is often used, hated, or 'obsolete' gear that ends up being cherised. Kurt Cobains use of the SansAmp Classic by Tech21, and the Boss DS2 for instance. John Fruciante's use of the Boss FZ-3 and also the Boss DS2, along with the Boss/Roland CE-1. You could list stuff for days.

    • @jesusislukeskywalker4294
      @jesusislukeskywalker4294 3 дні тому

      ​@JDStone20 👍 man you seem to know your electronics ⚡️ have you seen the videos on Angus Youngs tone.. evolved out of his wireless slightly boosting the signal..

    • @JDStone20
      @JDStone20 День тому

      @@jesusislukeskywalker4294 No, I haven't seen it, I will check it out. Before I got sick and couldn't work or go to school anymore, I was in college for Electronics Engineering and Computer Science. I know enough to be able to understand guitar pedal schematics, I want to start building and moddng my own pedals

  • @rveurope
    @rveurope 2 дні тому

    Good one, that pedal sound really good, its now on my punchlist👍👍🤘

  • @williamfirstand5057
    @williamfirstand5057 3 дні тому

    Brad, I believe I wrote this in comments before: I hope you'll consider writing a book (or books.) I have a reasonably modest library in my home, at least half is specifically devoted to books on the subjects of music, musicians, instruments, history, biographies, etc. My point? There's a market out there for someone with the knowledge and experience you have, which would enlighten and entertain musicians, non-musicians, and all those inbetween, around the world. And this hypothetical book I suggest here is just the type of book I'd have in my library. The people, the personalities, the places (I have a section devoted to books about Laurel Canyon, for example, and other subjects on which multiple books have been written. The people and the players and the venues of your life experience---lots of stuff to interest lovers of music and music history. Persons in a variety of capacities under the general UMBRELLA of "music" have written books or contributed to anthologies and such. FINALLY, if music as we know it, or KNEW it--rock music---classic or whatever the heck it was for the sixties until...until it morphed into stuff that doesn't really SEEM TO BE music---is changing or fading into the past...All the more reason to commit this history to the pages of books for libraries' shelves or E-book and digital-book harddrives and archives in clouds....

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  2 дні тому

      I need to build this channel and then it would make more sense for me to do.

    • @williamfirstand5057
      @williamfirstand5057 2 дні тому

      @@badbrad Good call, sir!

  • @Ericsson09
    @Ericsson09 11 днів тому +3

    It's your favorite subscriber=) I was thinking about one of these. It actually sounds amazing. Sorry if u said it, but is it a plastic housing?

  • @mariomacias7090
    @mariomacias7090 3 дні тому +1

    Great video

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому

      Glad you enjoyed it

  • @PukeyMcDork
    @PukeyMcDork 2 дні тому

    Great video that shows what the thing does. To me, you'd need a specific song to make use of the thing, honestly it seems odd to put one distortion box in front of another distortion box just to get "highs". a bandmate used to gig the Sparkle Drive and honestly you can get the same sound just tweaking a standard GE-7 to eq higher tones and gives volume boost if for some reason you needed that. My beef with massive pedal boards is you've got all these things running creating noise so you get a noise canceler. If i'm running my doggone 6505+ i don't need any more distortion for crying out loud! Just a chorus maybe and a delay. The rest is just for show. Thanks for actually demonstrating it!

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  2 дні тому

      Thanks for tuning in!

  • @thesoundpurist
    @thesoundpurist 3 дні тому

    Wow nice Suhr, you had it made like this? I have two of these, my standard HSH sounds cool especially with the Ikon pedal and a amp with sag and big lows.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому

      I bet that combination sounds great!

  • @awezman
    @awezman 3 дні тому +12

    The real Klon Centaur is one of the most ridiculous cases of idolizing gear i have ever seen. There seem to be hundreds of the real Klon Centaur on Ebay all the time and they are selling for upto $3000+ because they are "hard to find".

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому +2

      Pricey for sure

    • @davidseal6863
      @davidseal6863 3 дні тому

      I've seen some that sounded like 🫏

    • @guitarz99
      @guitarz99 2 дні тому

      ​@davidseal6863 im sure they all sound different also, I only tried one, the guy wanted 3k for it, I bought a KTR for 300 bucks , sounded the same and I didn't care much for it either

  • @kevindean1327
    @kevindean1327 3 дні тому +1

    Sounds very good!!!

  • @jeremythornton6090
    @jeremythornton6090 День тому

    I have absolutely no problem with Behringer making affordable copies. Some gear is priced stupidly high.
    I want to see them make a Dumble amp clone!

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  День тому

      Wow that would be wild…..

  • @reverendgoodthrustesq.6875
    @reverendgoodthrustesq.6875 3 дні тому

    > great topic badbrad, one of my old bandmates [guitarist] was a hands-on electronics wiz & former Navy ECM tech teacher, made & modded pedals, we spent more time fooling around with this stuff than practicing our axes, seeking for that ever elusive magic mystical sound setup [tone sustain O-drive etc.], good times.
    > What secret sauce pedal effects and signal chain order do all y’all use/recommend?
    I’ll spill it, this works best for my needs, it’s probably not the traditional proper chain order but it does what I want.
    Guitar to amp: 1) Vox Wah - 2) Tube Works 910 Tube Driver (3-Knob) - 3) Fulltone The Ultimate Octave [1994 SN #0058] - 4) Danelectro Dan-Echo Lavender/Purple - 5) Fulltone Deja Vibe [1994 SN #0067] - whatever tube amp is graciously offered/available, preferably => Fender Twin or Super, Marshall JCM800 or similar, Orange, Hovercraft, Friedman.
    > Thanks again for your content and platform, awesome as always.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому

      Sounds like you know your stuff! 😎

  • @scrimmerman
    @scrimmerman 3 дні тому

    Heck, I love my little cheapo SF300 boost/fuzz from them
    I can definitely see me grabbing one of these

  • @ScottTheNews
    @ScottTheNews День тому

    Yeah I guess that it sounds like a real one but I will never really know because I will never spend thousands on a real one. This thing sounds good to my ears.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  22 години тому

      Sounds good to me as well.

  • @pjbrown4736
    @pjbrown4736 3 дні тому

    The Klon original... are those like something that would mainly be in the possession of studios?

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому +1

      High dollar studio and stage players

  • @markholmes2665
    @markholmes2665 2 дні тому +1

    The only thing I discovered about Behringer was that the analog stuff they make is pretty good....but their digital offerings, not so much.

  • @thesoundpurist
    @thesoundpurist 3 дні тому +1

    Wait a minute 9000$? I sold mine for 900$ few years ago, I went to give it to a dude at the airport in mtl to a dude who was leaving for Switzerland. I was feeling bad. Bad deal with a guitarist of a worldwide well know band for my eventide eclipse. He promised me a Klon and an acoustic guitar and he changed his mind about the acoustic guitar. A brand that tommy Emanuel plays… can’t recall. I wanted to even for the value of my eclipse and the only pedal he gave me instead of the guitar.
    I felt bad enough to sell it 900$ I was against and still about the hype and the exploitation around any kind of material. It’s like gold, at least it has purity for conductivity and stuff…

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому

      On the upper end of the prices yeah $9k

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому

      On the upper end of the prices yeah $9k

    • @johnnyxmusic
      @johnnyxmusic 3 дні тому +1

      Maton?

  • @fumanpoo4725
    @fumanpoo4725 13 днів тому +6

    $69 vs. $9K? Gee...let me ponder that.😊

  • @the-LeoKnightus
    @the-LeoKnightus 3 дні тому

    Seems like a decent enough piece of gear. I have many Klones. Always one on my board.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  2 дні тому

      This is a good one~!

  • @liontone
    @liontone 3 дні тому

    Joyo GAVE me a Sweet Baby OD. It’s awesome! Copy of the Sweet Honey, which is a Honey Bee variant. I mean all this stuff is just using $10-12 dollars of parts with a metal box. lol. None of it should cost much over $100 anyway.😊

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  2 дні тому

      You can find a great deal on a lot of these pedals.

  • @josseric
    @josseric 3 дні тому +1

    i use a Ashdown PFX-RETRO AGM Pro FX Retro Drive Overdrive pedal and it works great. when it comes to behringer in my experience its been hit or miss..cheers..

  • @jasonstarkie2775
    @jasonstarkie2775 2 дні тому

    I just got mine from Sweetwater too. I don’t think it does transparent so well. It’s not as colored as my ds1. I think it’s more of a distortion than clean boost.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  2 дні тому

      Perhaps so but it sounds dang good

  • @burrellinvestments5952
    @burrellinvestments5952 3 дні тому +3

    I really like the soul food one by EH

  • @liedgitarrist
    @liedgitarrist 3 дні тому

    It seems brighter because of the Ampero preset

  • @PatrickGeneLeBlancHardy
    @PatrickGeneLeBlancHardy 3 дні тому +1

    Thanks For Sharing 🧠🎸🎶🎶✌️

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому +1

      You're welcome!

  • @SH-fm5eu
    @SH-fm5eu 2 дні тому

    I had to explain to the wife about Klons and Dumbles, didnt tell her I had a JHS Notaklon, Soul Food or Timmy. I dont ask about purses or shoes though. Does he not have an estate that can sue for copyright infringement, other than a smaller size thats an exact copy, maybe size is enough.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  2 дні тому

      It does make you wonder about the legal stuff….

  • @RobertFairweatherLuvMachine
    @RobertFairweatherLuvMachine 3 дні тому +5

    I can make every gain pedal I own sound just like that....just dial in the sound you want. GAS can be make your pocket book light. Spend you time playing...not paying. I have a crap Klon Clon from Amazon 30 clams delivered that does 'the thing'.

  • @xxcelr8rs
    @xxcelr8rs 3 дні тому

    Behringer EM, Echo Machine is amazing pedal. Any setting is sweet.

  • @buzzcrushtrendkill
    @buzzcrushtrendkill 3 дні тому

    Thanks for the demo. With some much tone being in the hands of the player, its silly why ppl pay $5k+ for a pedal.

  • @thesoundpurist
    @thesoundpurist 3 дні тому

    Looks it sounds less nasal than the original?

  • @johnperiard9594
    @johnperiard9594 2 дні тому

    Paid $30 for my Klon and it sounds awesome.

  • @toddlawson4130
    @toddlawson4130 День тому

    I wish that you would have had the amp on the edge of break-up and then engaged the pedal.

  • @TomDavisVideo
    @TomDavisVideo 3 дні тому +1

    I gots the new MXR Rockman X100 baby...

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому

      How do you like it?

    • @TomDavisVideo
      @TomDavisVideo 3 дні тому

      @@badbrad I had the Sustainer for about 10 yrs... Its a suitable replacement...has chorus too which sounds real nice

  • @thesoundpurist
    @thesoundpurist 3 дні тому

    Cool stuff nowadays huh? And the new vibe too. It’d make me throw my Deja vibe 1 over the bridge most probably… ah ah for the Klon stuff my Gold Ikon Archer does the job, harsher than the original Klon I used to own but hey, Eff the hype.

  • @davidseal6863
    @davidseal6863 3 дні тому

    It's about time to turn those 5k + golden horsies into doorstops 😂

  • @godbyone
    @godbyone 3 дні тому +1

    Even Jeff beck didn’t want his klon on the road. He has Jeff beck mod. archer. Which is the best. And super super reasonable. 250$

  • @tomcaron9113
    @tomcaron9113 День тому

    They will sell a bazillion of these and then they will hit the used market.
    But, have to say, they sound nice.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  День тому

      I'm keeping mine.

  • @erikavery1105
    @erikavery1105 2 години тому

    Makes me get GUITAR😖FACE!!!!!
    WANT!

  • @slowfinger2
    @slowfinger2 3 дні тому +2

    9K. I thought I'd seen everything. Must be living a sheltered life.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому +1

      Not sure I comprende

    • @slowfinger2
      @slowfinger2 3 дні тому +1

      @@badbrad My perspective is that I'd no idea you could stuff 9k worth of quality into a stomp pedal. LOL

  • @jerryhatrick5860
    @jerryhatrick5860 3 дні тому +1

    It's gotten rediculous..
    Everything spuds the same anymore.
    Do what makes you happy..
    Do what drives you and brings joy..

  • @ThisDarkeSoul
    @ThisDarkeSoul День тому +1

    I'll do you one better. Mosky Silver Horse. $30. Sounds exactly like a Klon.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  День тому

      I gotta try that one out!

    • @ThisDarkeSoul
      @ThisDarkeSoul День тому

      @badbrad Check out the comparison video JHS Pedals did with the Silver Horse and an original Klon Centaur. Even a guy who actually owns an original Klon couldn't tell the difference.

  • @antilaw9911
    @antilaw9911 3 дні тому +1

    That sounds better than a klon

  • @christianhunter777
    @christianhunter777 3 дні тому

    China’s HongShan Capital Group (HSG) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in The Marshall Group - the UK-born audio company known for its iconic rock amplifiers - in a deal worth EUR €1.1 billion (approx. USD $1.16bn).

  • @sharkair2839
    @sharkair2839 3 дні тому +1

    i have the world renown aluminum falcon. $100.00

  • @ponzo1967
    @ponzo1967 3 дні тому

    For that kind of money it better blow me, feed me, and fold my laundry.

    • @johnnyxmusic
      @johnnyxmusic 3 дні тому

      It will… But it’ll still leave you for a guy with a 59 burst

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  2 дні тому

      🤣

  • @douglasnielson8250
    @douglasnielson8250 3 дні тому

    Oh but you need the magic Klon diode gooped in epoxy or it’s not the real deal.

    • @creativenativeproductions
      @creativenativeproductions 3 дні тому +1

      gooped in melted Yngwe Gummies bro

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому

      Lmao 😜 🤣 😂

    • @douglasnielson8250
      @douglasnielson8250 3 дні тому

      @@creativenativeproductionsFeel the F’ing fury!

    • @creativenativeproductions
      @creativenativeproductions 3 дні тому

      @douglasnielson8250 ---- Haha

    • @douglasnielson8250
      @douglasnielson8250 3 дні тому

      @ some guys from Fender flew to Miami to work on doing some replicas of Yngwie’s duck guitar. Yngwie picked them up at the airport. It’s Miami in the summer. Hot and muggy as hell. Yngwie is wearing leather pants and looks like he’s ready to hit the stage. He dresses like that all the time ha! Ha!

  • @HappyGeneRC
    @HappyGeneRC 3 дні тому

    At least you can still hear brittle!

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому

      My ears are still good.

  • @jea783
    @jea783 3 дні тому

    Music is Win make an amazing comparison with a cheap $29 Klon with the original . Title of the video : The $5,000 Guitar Pedal RIPOFF... what have I DONE?

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому

      Yeah that was a few years ago prices are higher now

  • @Mr.Zero1960
    @Mr.Zero1960 3 дні тому

    Not worth the price. You can achieve the basic same sound for a lot less. Hell, for basically one fifth of the price, you can buy a Boss pedalboard that can do so much more. As P. T. Barnum had famously stated "there's a sucker born every minute."

  • @jesusislukeskywalker4294
    @jesusislukeskywalker4294 3 дні тому +1

    smells like teen spirit must have boosted sales in overdrive pedals .. they are a lot of fun 👍

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому +1

      Yes indeed!

    • @RONVK
      @RONVK 3 дні тому

      Cobain never used an Overdrive pedal. He used Distortion pedals. His main 2 were the Boss DS-1 and the Rat. He used a Boss DS-2 Turbo on the In Utero album.

  • @markhammer643
    @markhammer643 2 дні тому

    Please stop using the outrageous resale prices of greedy speculators as the price-point. Bill always sold his pedals for a reasonable price, considering the care that went into them and the build quality. If he had the money to use pick-and-place surface mount technology, and cheap pots (and good pots are key to the functioning of the Gain control), I imagine he could probably also turn a profit selling a pedal for $69.
    If a person phoned Bill to order a Klon Centaur, he would engage in a 20-minute conversation, assessing their rig and whether a Klon would be useful. I don't know that he ever outright refused to sell to anyone, but if he found the caller's rig and playing style would not benefit from the pedal, he would not encourage purchase and maybe even discourage it. That "triage" ate into his build time and was partially responsible for the long wait time. Buyers who didn't know how to use it properly would realize they could make some money by flipping it to people who had more money than patience, and the resale prices continued to escalate. Bill's only role in this was not cranking them out by the thousands. To boot, anyone who bought a flipped Klon at an inflated price would not get the "screening" and advice that Bill would always provide to his customers. Naturally, being underinformed about what it could (and couldn't) do, and having unrealistic expectations, resale buyers would be irritated by how much it had cost them, and then turn around and flip it again.
    Seventeen years ago, Bill sent me two ungooped boards to work on something for him. The build quality was exceptional. But it is NOT a distortion pedal. It was designed to condition the signal in a way to give a tube amp the right kind of push to break up sweetly, and NOT to provide an overdrive or distortion sound of its own.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  2 дні тому

      Ok that’s all fine and dandy but why didn’t Bill find someone to build these to his specs and build quality so I can actually purchase something from the guy who designed it? Where is Bill in all this and why can’t I buy a new KTR???

    • @bobbyarthurmagic
      @bobbyarthurmagic День тому

      Bill made them till he didn’t want to make them any more … seams fair enough … Beringer could have done a replica but name and logo … that’s just uncouth .. any way plenty of nods to the original out there but this ain’t cool really … fitting though for Beringer

  • @fancykarlmarx
    @fancykarlmarx 2 дні тому

    Sounds just like a klon

  • @jerryhatrick5860
    @jerryhatrick5860 3 дні тому +1

    And it's cheaper than the build.Your own from JHS

  • @guitarz99
    @guitarz99 2 дні тому

    I have played a real klon, no different than my KTR

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  2 дні тому

      good to know...

    • @bobbyarthurmagic
      @bobbyarthurmagic День тому

      KTR is up there now price wise as well aren’t they ?

    • @guitarz99
      @guitarz99 18 годин тому

      @bobbyarthurmagic i paid 300 bucks for mine i see theyre selling for 750 and up , I had no idea , I'm selling mine. I have played a real vintage klon, it sounded the same as my KTR and my soulfood , I honestly don't even use it, I'm unimpressed with the sound, it just sounds like an amp with some gain.

  • @waynedavis724
    @waynedavis724 3 дні тому

    $69 is a fair price for the most overrated pedal in the history of mankind.

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  3 дні тому +1

      I do like the sound of the pedal

    • @waynedavis724
      @waynedavis724 3 дні тому

      @@badbrad It sounds good, but the mythology of the Centaur that drove prices up to $10K is flat out ridiculous, for $69 it's a fair price. I'll probably price one up when they're back in stock. If I do, I'll use your Sweetwater link.

  • @HelmsRupture
    @HelmsRupture 2 дні тому

    Neither sounds that good. SRV would be awesome with any pedal.

  • @krone5
    @krone5 3 дні тому

    its just 3 knobs lol

  • @piktormusic2538
    @piktormusic2538 2 дні тому

    Behringer, the Napster of intellectual property.

    • @bobbyarthurmagic
      @bobbyarthurmagic День тому

      Ya they should stop , it’s not cool … one thing to replicate or make a replica in Essence but taking name and logo this is sheer ignorance and surprised any musician would support that as much as you would like me to rip of your original song

    • @badbrad
      @badbrad  День тому

      If Bill from Klon would produce Centaurs I would buy one.

    • @piktormusic2538
      @piktormusic2538 День тому

      @@bobbyarthurmagic - I can see that the temptation of availability and significantly lower prices is strong. When you consider that most of music stores’ sales are made to people who are not pro musicians, the legacy and cache of big-name instrument designers and manufacturers are less likely to outweigh the low price and functionality of products like these in the video. That company really done a number to synthesizers. You can buy an American Minimoog for $5000 or a B version of that for a tenth the price. Will the cheaper on last 40-50 years and cannot be repaired? Does it have the girth of a MM? Maybe not, but you might have to be a dentist to afford the real thing. Are most people going to save and wait ten time longer to buy the real thing? Even with tariffs (especially as they will definitely drive inflation way up on Americans), I don’t see America first re: manufacturing actually working. People will vote with their dollars. I just wish that the people who spend time, energy and creativity designing the original products (some were American and some were Japanese or German [Waldorph]) were being paid fair royalties for every Behringer unit that relies on their original work and reputation. Geez, if Pharrell had to pay for hinting at an original work….Why are copyright laws so far off?

  • @wellstrung2
    @wellstrung2 2 дні тому

    If you spent $500 on one of those things you'd be an idiot