Centauride Overdrive

The Centauride Overdrive is a Klon-style overdrive, designed as a transparent and structuring gain tool, with extended midrange control and careful signal management.
Based on the Klon architecture used in the Black Pearl, it retains the same foundation while adding essential options to suit more demanding playing contexts and pedalboard setups.

Rather than acting as a heavily colored overdrive, the Centauride functions as an articulate boost / overdrive, intended to enhance presence, dynamics, and note definition without masking the character of the guitar or the amplifier.

Musical intent & use cases

The Centauride Overdrive is designed to work equally well as a clean boost, light overdrive, or always-on gain stage.
At low gain settings, it remains clean and well defined, making it ideal for shaping the signal or pushing an amplifier without altering its core tone.

A key aspect of the Centauride lies in its clipping selector, which allows the pedal’s behavior to be adapted precisely to the intended use.
In the no-diodes position, the Centauride operates as a completely clean boost, with no clipping influence at all, reflecting one of the most common real-world uses of Klon-style overdrives: driving an amp or another pedal while keeping the signal intact.

The germanium diode (GE) position delivers a more traditional response, with soft, naturally compressed saturation, faithful to the classic character of this circuit family.
The Schottky diode position provides a more modern feel, with firmer clipping, a more immediate attack, and better control as gain levels increase.

When placed at the end of a gain chain, the Centauride Overdrive naturally helps the guitar stand out in the mix, particularly for solo work.
Its midrange structure and boost behavior improve presence and clarity without hardening the top end or causing excessive volume imbalance.

Thanks to this versatility, the Centauride integrates easily before or after other gain stages, both live and in the studio.

Who this pedal is for

The Centauride Overdrive is intended for guitarists looking for a transparent, precise, and controllable overdrive, capable of adapting closely to their instrument, amplifier, and effects chain.
It is particularly well suited to players who primarily use this type of overdrive as a boost, but want the option to introduce more pronounced clipping when the musical context requires it.

This is not a high-saturation pedal, but a signal-shaping and highlighting tool, designed to enhance playing dynamics without flattening them.

Closing note

The Centauride Overdrive is a Klon-style overdrive reimagined as a modern, flexible, and musical tool, offering midrange control, signal integrity, and controlled dynamics in a simple and effective format.