Which is the function of the dual pot of "k l o n"?

[ANDYEFFECT]

Which is the function of the dual pot of k l o n?

What does he make in the circuit?

thanks

[MartyMart]

I dont think anyone is "sure" but it's probably mixing in clean signal with the overdriven
signal as it increases, a bit like the "sparkle drive" does and Mark's "The Crank" does also.

MM.

[Ken]

G'day all'

From my understanding, (which after years is still limited) one half of the dual 100k pot

acts as part of a tone crt and the other half is after the germ. clip  diodes back to the input buffers

output via alot of res. and caps. if that makes sense....

Cheers Ken.

[Skreddy]

Someone's trying to build a Brazillian Klon clone.

I say leave Bill Finnegan alone.  I did not appreciate your email asking for schematics.     This smacks very much of exploitation for profit and very little of educational research.

[The Tone God]

You don't need to space the effect name in the title. We know you are talking about the Klon so "K l o n" doesn't do anything for you.

Also have you taken time to introduce yourself to the function ?

This has been disscussed before.

Andrew

[Mark Hammer]

I dont think anyone is "sure" but it's probably mixing in clean signal with the overdriven
signal as it increases, a bit like the "sparkle drive" does and Mark's "The Crank" does also.

MM.

1) The Sparkle Drive blends clean and distorted signal.  The Crank does not.  It is just a single linear path with nothing blended in.
2) The Sparkle Drive concentrates the highest gain in one stage.  The Crank distributes gain across two cascaded stages.
3) The Sparkle Drove is capable of getting Screamer-ish tones if the clean is not blended in.  The Crank gets a little dirtier as the gain gets increased, but does not approach what you might call "distortion" tones.
4) I have no idea what the dual-ganged pot on the Klon does.  It may do something analogous to the Crank, or it may not.  Certainly seeing the dual-ganged Gain pot in the Klon got me thinking.  In the case of the Crank, the two pot sections simultaneously adjust gain in two different stages.  The dual-ganged control in the Klon Centaur may adjust two gain-related factors, or it may adjust gain with one section and introduce some tone compensation with the other.  I have no idea.  Being covered in goop will do that.

This is not an admonishment.  I just wanted to set the record straight, before anyone started assuming anything about X being equal to Y and Z.  Bill Finnegan may be doing something mysterious and wonderful...or he may not.  Either way, when a man only has one cow, you don't kick it in the udder.

[MartyMart]

1) The Sparkle Drive blends clean and distorted signal.  The Crank does not.  It is just a single linear path with nothing blended in.

Yup, sorry I was wrong on that one, it is of course two gain stages being "adjusted"   

( still LOVE it though  )

MM.