ALL ABOUT THE KLON CENTAUR .... the magic parts

WHAT MAKES A KLONE... A KLON 

The parts in a pedal are on the whole low tech. Each part has a
spec. Think of like them like a shoelace that you buy that says on the package it is 12". With pedal parts that 12" might be 9" or 11". It is why two exact same pedals made the same day by the same company sound different. It gets worse. Two different makers may make their 10" shoelace 9" knowing they are within the acceptable spec. That wrong measurement in a pedal made by a pedal company may be the secret sauce that makes the pedal sound killer. If it stops being made than you no longer get anymore of those killer pedals. 

Pedals are not consumer goods. if a company makes a part used in a pedal he may sell 90% of them to companies making garage door openers. If the garage door openers companies switch to another product the part is no longer made. With analog parts being made mostly redundant by digital there are less and less of them. Big companies buy up small companies and may even simply stop making any part that does the same job as theirs. Their product sounds crap in a pedal but opens garage doors just fine. 

thefineprint

...on some dusty shelf in a parts warehouse or shop are a handful or small box 

of every part in every old pedal. A small company can find these and make a 

few pedals. Harby is just one such guy so he makes his Harby Centaur Klon 

clone and nails it. It sells for the damn reasonable price of $170.00 USD.