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There's still typos in several places I saw on the page. Video links and the link to your site.

Or maybe I don't have teh "newer" version because it's cached or something.

Yeah you're right. At least the link works and the title is correct now

Just tested a new Klon board. Pretty crowded on here, but it's a full Klon that fits in an MXR-sized enclosure (vertically orientated this time) with board mounted pots. Works nicely!

timhulio wrote:vertically orientated this time

Excellent. This is what I have been hoping for. I nearly PM'd you the other day to ask if it was possible.

You are going to sell a million of these. People love little pedals.

timhulio wrote:Just tested a new Klon board. Pretty crowded on here, but it's a full Klon that fits in an MXR-sized enclosure (vertically orientated this time) with board mounted pots. Works nicely!

Wow! That's is really impressive, I don't think i've ever seen one so small! You should sell pcbs, the diy guys would go crazy for these.

Actually I saw a guy fit one on a 1590A, but he used smd stuff, that's cheating :p

sp3k wrote:Actually I saw a guy fit one on a 1590A, but he used smd stuff, that's cheating :p

There is at least one dude who's put the Klon in a 1590A using mini through-hole resistors. It's not too hard to do, but I don't think his pots are board mounted and obviously there's no room for a battery. Not that I'd advocate using a battery anyway.

The small size is also an invitation to a world of pain if you're building more than a few pedals, and I'm not too convinced we need a Klon smaller than MXR-sized.

That's excellent designs and engineering as always mate - I don't envy you building them though

Loads of components for the money - how much are you selling these for?

Cheers!

They're £100 each. I've sold loads on TGP and ebay, and quite a few on OSG. The build time really isn't too bad. It takes me a few hours to populate a batch of 10 boards, and I've made wiring them into the box as straightforward as possible without using board mounted switch and jacks.

Stacey's done some nice Weasels of Invention.

Tim, i love the unpleasant companion. I love love love love love it. I had been after something that was really aggressive but different. The problem with a lot of distortions is that i play through a mesa and the dirty channel is fantastic and when i add something it usually doesn't sound as good as it did before. I keep the gain way up. I was wanting something that was different. I wanted it to sound like my mesa had caught on fire. I wanted rude and obnoxious. I also wanted fuzz instead of distortion. The mesa dimed and the unpleasant companion dimed is un-fucking-real!!! It was like you read my mind and said here this is what you want and you were right! I'm on a mission to own one of each of yours. I'm bringing this one to the studio and i'm going to let them use it there on a few tracks besides mine. I used it with another new pedal i got for christmas and together they are unreal. I'll tell you somewhere else what i used it with. It was totally ridiculous! The artwork is A+ also! So, thanks again and i'm all in with you! I would strongly recommend it.

I will probably be ordering one of those Klon clones if I can shift a couple of things first, in the vertical enclosure it looks perfect for me!

Amazing work.

Cheers Brandon!

Gabriel - coolio, the first batch of vertical klones are off getting drilled now. There's gonna be 100 of them! I'll be sure to do the usual announcement when they're back from the painters (likely 4-6 weeks).

Looks like there's gonna be a small mention of the Super Unpleasant Companion in the Feb edition of Premier Guitar. Pretty chuffed with this!
http://digital.premierguitar.com/premierguitar/201302?pg=209#pg209

Great news Tim!

These look great.

Next step is to build a Klon into the jack plug part of a guitar cable.

I'm amazed at how long these things take! I've got the first batch of 100 vertical Klones back from the drilling place. They're off to be powder coated tomorrow.

In the meantime, I've built loads of other nice pedals. Here's a batch for a shop in Melbourne:

Mate you need to get yourself over to NAMM. Your pedals have come a long way, well done.

they look so good in a family shot.

Johno wrote:Mate you need to get yourself over to NAMM. Your pedals have come a long way, well done.

Cheers mate. NAMM is a bit of a mission, but I had considered Musicmesse in Frankfurt. Shame there are no proper UK guitar shows or trade events to show this stuff off.