What is the Vemuram Jan Ray?
The Vemuram Jan Ray was designed to recreate the classic tone of an overdriven 1960s Fender Blackface amp. One of the original ‘transparent drives’, the Jan Ray doesn’t transform your tone or change the relationship between your guitar and amp. It doesn’t compress or colour the sound as much as a TS style drive would.
Is the Jan Ray a Timmy clone?
The Jan Ray overdrive is one of the many scandals that shook the boutique pedal community recently. Indeed, the Jan Ray has been proven to be a Paul C. Timmy slightly modified as we will see by studying the circuit.
What is the Jan Ray a copy of?
It is a modified version of the Vemuram Jan Ray pedal, which is itself a modified version of the Paul Cochrane Tim pedal.
Who uses Klon Centaur?
Popularity. When the Klon Centaur was released in the mid ’90s, it was quickly picked up and used by a wide variety of different guitarists. This included Warren Haynes, Phillip Sayce and John Mayer, amongst countless others.
What is so special about a Klon?
The Klon is particularly celebrated for the ‘transparent’ nature of its overdrive. In essence, this means that the pedal causes your signal to overdrive, without ‘colouring’ your tone in any way. It adds warmth and gain to your tone, whilst preserving the natural sound of your guitar and amp.
Why is the Klon Centaur so expensive?
The current price of the original Klon Centaur pedals is due to two factors. First, the pedals are discontinued, so it’s now a collectible. Whenever you stop supplying something that is in demand, the price goes up. The second reason for the high price is due to the hype around this pedal.
What is the Zendrive based on?
Inspired by a legendary guitarist, the Zendrive delivers blues, country, jazz and fusion tones associated with some of the finest, most costly amplifiers in the market. Four knobs control the overall volume, gain, tone and voicing of the pedal.
Who makes Zendrive?
Lovepedal
The Hermida Audio Zendrive is one of the most sought-after overdrive pedals in the world. Originally produced in very small numbers by designer Alfonso Hermida, the Zendrive is now produced by Lovepedal, who make some of our favourite pedals of all time and Danny Gill is here to explain just why this one is so special.
Is the Klon a distortion pedal?
The Klon Centaur is an overdrive pedal manufactured by American engineer Bill Finnegan between 1994 and 2008. Finnegan hoped to create a pedal that would recreate the harmonically rich distortion of a guitar amplifier at a high volume.
What diodes are in a Klon?
4.2 Germanium Clipping Diodes. The clipping diodes define the distortion sound signature, it is built using 2 back to back diodes that shunt the signal to ground, this clipping method gives a hard-clipping sound also used in many other pedals (MXR Distortion+, RAT and Boss-DS1).
What is the vemuram Jan Ray?
Follow this product to see new listings in your Feed! The Vemuram Jan Ray is a boutique transparent overdrive pedal that delivers clean boost and singing sustain without any unwanted artifacts or unnatural compression.
How does the Jan Ray circuit work?
Here is the schematic of the Jan Ray circuit as it is on the veroboard (a bit different from what you can find online, but functional !) It is quite a classical layout, using the 2 OP-amps included in the LM4558 IC. The first OP-Amp is used to clip the signal to generate saturation, whereas the second one is used as a basic volume boost.
How much did vemuram charge for his analog pedal?
However, Vemuram pretended that it was an original design he made up listening to old Fender amps during 3 years… And sold the pedal at an indecent price for an analog pedal: 370 euros (400 dollars) ! This is a typical marketing strategy: “the price represents the quality”, which is totally absurd for a basic electronic guitar pedal…
How many diodes are there in a vemuram switch?
And there are 4 diodes, 2 on the board and 2 on the switch, it gives you the option of the Timmy’s compressed mode by lifting the two diodes on the switch although the standard Vemuram config with with all 4 in circuit. The third diode on the board is for reverse polarity protection for the supply.