The Klon KTR took two years to design and sold for $269. His goal was to create a straightforward design that could be built by a contracted manufacturing firm and would be easy to repair, among other considerations, while preserving the Centaur sound. Klon KTRįinnegan redesigned the Centaur as the Klon KTR, released in 2014. As of 2019, used Centaurs sold for between $1,900 and $2,500 USD. Though he declined large private offers to build Centaurs, he continued to build them for a close friend, a single mother who needed financial support, to sell on eBay. In 2008, Finnegan decided the situation was unsustainable and discontinued the Centaur. Finnegan said his profit margin was "not very sensible", and he found it difficult to hire employees and expand the business in Boston, where commercial space was expensive. Īs it took Finnegan 12 to 14 weeks to fulfil each order, used Centaur pedals sold for inflated prices this placed more pressure on Finnegan to meet demand. In total, Finnegan built around 8,000 pedals over 15 years. Every part was custom made, including the cast enclosure, knobs and pots.
He was overwhelmed by demand and worked long hours in his home, building, testing, and shipping the pedals himself. Releaseįinnegan launched the Klon Centaur in late 1994. He coated the components in epoxy resin to make the pedal harder to replicate. After extensive experimentation, he selected germanium diodes for the circuit and purchased as many as he could afford. With electrical engineer friends, including the MIT graduate Fred Fenning, Finnegan developed prototype pedals in his spare time over four and a half years. He experimented with the Ibanez Tube Screamer, but was not satisfied. He wanted a "big, open" sound, with a "hint of tube clipping", that would not sound like a pedal was being used. In the 1990s, the American engineer Bill Finnegan sought an overdrive pedal that would recreate the harmonically rich distortion of a guitar amplifier at a high volume. Klon Centaur output signal around 3.5 V Development
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