Jad Freer Audio Klone

The Jad Freer Audio Klone is an overdrive pedal that reproduces a single specific Klon Centaur: serial number 3157. The maker describes it as "a faithful reproduction of an original Klone Centaur Professional Overdrive, specifically S.N. 3157," and says each unit is compared 1:1 against that original before it ships¹. The Klon Centaur itself is the transparent overdrive that sells for thousands used, which is why a whole category of replicas and kits has grown up around it².

What sets this one apart from most Klon replicas is the level of the reproduction. It is not a general Klon-style circuit: it is a copy of one numbered unit, built and assembled one by one in Italy, and checked against the original before every shipment¹.

A replica of Klon Centaur serial number 3157

The Klon Centaur is the overdrive known as the transparent overdrive, a pedal that pushes an amp while leaving the core guitar tone largely intact, and one that sells for thousands used². Builders have answered with replicas of every kind: Jad Freer Audio's Klone is a faithful reproduction of serial number 3157¹, ARC Effects' Klone V2 is a faithful recreation of a Klon Centaur³, and Noise Space Audio's version is a reinterpretation featuring a series of mods⁴.

Jad Freer Audio's approach sits at the faithful end. The maker guarantees the circuit is a reproduction of one particular original, S.N. 3157, rather than a generic Klon-style design, and states that finished pedals "get compared 1:1 to the original before shipping"¹. That comparison against a specific reference unit is the maker's own claim of accuracy, and it is the central selling point of the product.

For context on how other builders approach the same circuit:

• The Noise Space Audio Klone is described by Delicious Audio as a reinterpretation, since it features a series of mods⁴.
• ARC Effects' Klone V2, as described in a Strymon pedalboard feature, is "a faithful recreation of a Klon Centaur"³.
• The JedsPeds Super Klone compares to a modified Klon⁵.
• The Acorn Amplifiers Another F#%king Klon Klone is billed by its maker as a "faithful handmade version of everyone's favorite mythic overdrive"⁶.

Build: hand-made pots and a redesigned chassis

Two details of the construction come straight from the maker. First, the potentiometers: "The pots are custom hand made to the original specs, not available as off-the-shelf parts on the market"¹. That matters because the original Klon used pots that are no longer sourced the same way, and most replicas substitute modern equivalents. Here the maker claims the originals have been recreated rather than substituted.

Second, the enclosure. The maker says "the chassis has been completely re-designed to meet today's standards of use, while internally maintaining the exact same physical layout of the original circuit"¹. In practice that means the circuit board keeps the original's internal layout, while the box around it is a modern design, at 15 × 10 × 6 cm and 1 kg¹.

Ordering, price, and wait time

The Klone is listed at 490,00 € on the maker's product page, as of 2026¹. Delivery time is 20 weeks from order¹, which reflects the one-by-one build and the 1:1 comparison against the original before shipping¹.

That wait is long compared with other routes into a Klon-style circuit. Jeds Peds offers its Klone kit with pre-built kits on a 1 to 4 week build time and a 12 month repair warranty⁷, and its kits come with board mounted pots and full build instructions, or as a JP-Pro kit with a pre-painted, drilled and UV printed enclosure⁷. CK Audio's Klone is sold as a full kit or as separate parts so you can customize its look⁸. On the finished-pedal side, the JC Audio Klone Overdrive was reviewed by Pedal of the Day in 2015 as looking "remarkably similar to a [Klon], minus the words printed on the enclosure. Even the knobs are the same," at what the reviewer called 1/10 of the price of an original⁹.

How it compares in the wider Klone field

The Jad Freer Audio Klone is one of the more expensive and slowest-to-arrive options among the replicas covered here, and it is priced in euros by an Italian builder rather than in US dollars. What the extra cost and wait buy, on the maker's own account, is the specific-serial reproduction, the hand-made pots, and the pre-shipment comparison to the original¹.

Other builders take different positions on the same question. Music Box Pedals' Klone is described by Delicious Audio as a high-end Klon clone built in NJ, USA¹⁰, while Noise Space Audio's version is hand-built by a one-person, Kiev-based builder and takes a modded approach⁴. On the review side, That Pedal Show's comparison of Klon clones found audible differences between units: discussing one clone, Dan said "the one on the left sounds more like a clone to me right cuz it's got less obvious bottom end boost"¹¹, a reminder that even faithful copies can measure and sound slightly different from the original.

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