How To REALLY Use A Klon

@ShawnTubbs tells the story of selling his original Silver Klon and how he used it on sessions. Featuring a real Silver Klon into clean, crunch, and gain tones from a Revv 100P MK3.
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[rickhammel]

just put my Notaklon together, sounds really good, thanks for showing how to really get the most out of it

[JeremyBortot]

Dude - your Jeff Beck is disgustingly good.

[ggus]

To my ears, the Klon is one of the worlds finest treble boost pedals. It does a rare thing. It does not take away anything.

[bobmckenna]

You have a really high-quality audio on this video. My compliments.

[dustinarnold]

The tumnus deluxe is a great alternative

[JamieSandel]

This is kind of my ideal tone demo video. Moves through ideas just fast enough, simple and sweet

[jared]

I find running my Timmy last in the chain s an always on pedal really brings back out the high end and low end from the klon and doesn’t add as much mids

[billylindsay]

I have owned 2 of the silver klon pedals one I bought on ebay and one direct. I never really bonded with them, the first I sold pretty quickly and the second I sold when the used market went over $1K. No regrets they were rarely on my live board. I have a Gold archer and a silver beck modded archer, I think they are both better (to my ears anyway) than the klons I owned.

[PeteDownes]

Thanks for this. One of the best explantions and demos of the Klon online. I ran my Archer Ikon through a white noise generator to see what it was up to. Many people say it attenuates bass but this did not appear to be the case. With the gain off and treble at noon: no change. As the gain was increased - even slightly - it starts boosting around 1k to 5k and tamed the very high frequencies. Bass remained the same. When I use it it's usually as a clean boost with gain at 8am to add a touch of those high mids.

[jakollee]

That "horrible noodling" was my favorite part of the video! I've never had a real Klon, but have a Tumnus. Honestly, for that "waking up the guitar sound, " as you put it, I prefer my Timmy. Then I hit the Timmy with a TS mini and that's a nice mid-gain lead sound. I leave the Tumnus near the end of my chain to use occasionally as a boost, in case I have to compete with an especially loud drummer!

[DaBoondox]

I miss that sound. I played a Bondi Sick As and Archer Ikon into my hotrodded JMP (Dirty Shirley clone) and man what ride that sound would take you on. Today’s rig is clean with a bunch of pedals and tones for covers.

[mr.deeken]

I love my ikon (picked it up after watching your demo actually). I feel there is definitely more hype than is warranted for the originals, but supply and demand is a real thing…. I have found that if I like my tone in a particular setup, the klone makes it better whereas if I do not, it isn’t the way to go.

[pauloferreira]

Your “jeff beck” is just amazing, bro you should definitely record your tunes and riffs - you just nail it - you have a great collection of riffs and licks

[onenotesolo]

Your bridge pickup noodling was the best I’ve ever heard a Klon sound on full gain, and I own one. Those magic Tubbs hands again! I also find the Klon a bit mid-barky for my taste, but they do sound good in a mix when pushing a lightly driven sound into something more punchy. I can also recommend kicking it in after a light fuzz, which rounds out the spikyness of the fuzz while keeping the fatness. Obviously all the klones do all of these things as well (or better). And just occasionally, the right mix of guitar, amp and other FX gives you that extra harmonic thing that sounds fab. Great video as always sir.

[robertprice]

I have a couple of Clones, but currently I use a Thropy Peacekeeper as my "More Box", due to its very flexible EQ.

[stevemorgan]

I own a silver one I also bought from Bill. I’ve never heard a pedal that comes close, but that depends upon how you’re using it. I use it as a tone enhancer, very little gain if any. It seems to tickle some magic frequencies to make your tone sound bigger, fuller, richer.

[andywoodmusic]

Great vid. I use the circuit as a “more box” too.

[cobowe]

I have the KTR and use it exactly as you showed for the Jeff Beck stuff

[BillonBass]

On bass I use my Bass Soul Food Klon-ish pedal strictly as a boost into my JHS Morning Glory and Jive Reel Saturator. It does have some good sounds on its own for bass but just not for what I play. With just the BSF as a boost going into my Jive with no toggles on and gain at about 9:00 with volume at about 11:00 produces a great fat bass yet very clear sound through my Ampeg SCR DI with my Empress compressor set for light compression and is my always on sound. I record a lot of movies and tv shows in Thailand where I now live and it sounds amazing as well as for live shows.

[cpamiseso]

More beef yet still crystally crisp, I see, Klon is something indeed for clean channel.