Noise Space Audio Klone

The Noise Space Audio Klone is a boost overdrive pedal built on the Klon Centaur circuit, hand-built by a one-person, Kiev-based builder, Noise Space Audio¹. Where most Klon copies aim to reproduce the original exactly, Delicious Audio categorizes this one as a reinterpretation, since it keeps the core circuit but adds a series of mods, most notably two toggle switches for extra tonal options¹.

The Klon circuit it builds on has a long-standing reputation. Premier Guitar's columnist describes the Klon as a "more pedal," one that beefs up your amp's core tone by giving you more of it². Pedal of the Day's reviewer found the Noise Space Audio version delivers on that reputation, writing that it "sounds fantastic and gives you all the Klon feels you've been searching for"³.

A Klon reinterpretation with mods

The original Klon Centaur used rare New Old Stock germanium diodes to clip the audio wave softly and smoothly, a detail that has become central to the pedal's mythology⁴. The Noise Space Audio Klone uses NOS USSR ?9? diodes, the same type used in the original Klon, according to both Delicious Audio and Pedal of the Day¹³. That matters because the supply of those original diodes has been a running story in the Klon world: in 2021, Klon's Bill Finnegan said that any Centaurs he built going forward would still have the NOS diodes, amid reports that the stock of NOS clipping diodes was running dry⁵.

The Klone sits alongside several other takes on the circuit. The Jad Freer Audio Klone is a faithful reproduction of an original Centaur, serial number 3157, with each unit compared 1:1 to the original before shipping. The Acorn Amplifiers Another F#%king Klon Klone is a handmade faithful version of the same circuit. The Noise Space Audio take stands apart from both by modifying the circuit rather than copying it outright¹.

Delicious Audio added the pedal to its list of the Best Klone Clones¹.

The controls: gain knob, gain toggle and low-frequency switch

The control layout keeps the Klon's core functionality and adds switching on top of it. Every Klon and every clone of it has the dual gain knob, and this pedal is no exception¹. Pedal of the Day notes you get the three classic parameters onboard: Gain, Treble and Output³.

The two switches are what separate this pedal from a stock Klon clone. The 3-way low-frequency toggle lets you push or trim the low end, and the 2-way gain toggle changes the drive character, options the original Centaur never had¹.

Clean boost and drive use

Like the Klon circuit it derives from, the pedal covers a range of gain settings. Pedal of the Day describes it as working "as a clean boost, a low-gain drive or something with a little more dirt on it"³. JHS Pedals makes the same point about the Klon itself: "You can use this as a clean boost if you want to"⁶.

The clean-boost reputation of the Klon circuit is well documented. Warren Haynes told GuitarPlayer that the Klon boosted your sound without changing it, and that it did the transparent boost better than the Tube Screamer, to the extent you could not detect any tone difference when set to boost level only⁷. An AMZ Guitar Effects review went further, calling the Klon "the one to beat so far" for clean boost, with a little extra clarity that made the reviewer want it back on when it was switched off⁸.

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