Pedal Monsters Klone Jr  [traced]

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This is my favorite klone so far. I believe it is true bypass

I've labeled the caps. The diodes I couldn't get a good read on so my apologies.

The back of the PCB is extremely hard to photograph, but I'm confident someone on here has the technology and patience to trace.

VOL B10K
GAIN 1&2 B100K (one of those double pots)
TONE B10K
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:shock: that soldering...
A Klon! Who would have thought! :)

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Maybe that’s why it sounds so good :)

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This brand of pedals must be renamed as "Bad solder joint monster"... :mrgreen:

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A little better...

To be fair, I think the PCB was made by JLCPCB. I’ve had boards made there and the eyelets are terrible. Really hard to get a good solder.
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DJ, please consider the fact that this is a double-layer (at least) PCB, so there are traces on the TOP-side as well (component side), so making a RE (reverse engeneering) of this white PCB would be very hard.
...and i don't think that anyone here would be interested in doing such an effort just to confirm the schematic of a known&declared Klon clone.

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Figured I’d post all of my pedals in case there is any interest. If not, than that’s ok.

I appreciate the feedback.

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watching pics of pedals' internals is always a pleasure, so please don't stop posting them.

i just had the impression, from the first post of this topic, that you were expecting someone to trace this pedal; as i said it would be quite an effort... and we already know what the schematic will be.
...or maybe you suspect that the klon schematic has been slightly modified, in this pedal?
if so, then start checking the components values against the known klon schematic - for example how many 68nF caps in this pedal? and in the klon schem? ...and so on.

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Intripped wrote: 24 Oct 2021, 23:06 watching pics of pedals' internals is always a pleasure, so please don't stop posting them.

i just had the impression, from the first post of this topic, that you were expecting someone to trace this pedal; as i said it would be quite an effort... and we already know what the schematic will be.
...or maybe you suspect that the klon schematic has been slightly modified, in this pedal?
if so, then start checking the components values against the known klon schematic - for example how many 68nF caps in this pedal? and in the klon schem? ...and so on.

I thought it was somewhat unique but maybe not!

A true bypass “mini” Klone, that sounds really great. I didn’t expect anyone to jump on it but if anyone was curious it’s here I guess!

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Post by DjPsychic »

In case anyone was curious. Some interesting values. Great sounding pedal.
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IMO:
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Post by DjPsychic »

Are you adding the 2.2M and eliminating the 10k? I don’t see that on the PCB

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just count the 10k resistors and make your conclusions (considering also the notes on the Klon schematic).
regarding the 2M2:
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Yep you’re right my bad

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