WARM AUDIO / Silver Centavo

The deja vu-like casing houses the unmistakable circuitry and sound of the legendary Klon Centaur overdrive. This is the pinnacle of clone pedals that faithfully reproduces the sound and design of the original model while keeping costs down. *This product is a limited production color.

Accurately reproduces the popular overdrive born in the 90's.
If there's one guitar pedal that legendary guitarists from Jeff Beck to James Hetfield have in common, it's one of the most popular sounds in history.
Warm Audio Centavo accurately reproduces the Klon Centaur Professional Overdrive sound. Whether you're looking for legendary clean boost tones, transparent overdrive, or want to push your distortion channel even further, the Centavo has all the characteristics of the original model.
In addition to the traditional Centaur original model sound, Warm Audio Centavo is equipped with a "MOD" switch on the back. By switching to the "up" position, the "Jeff Beck Mod" is activated and changes the value of the high-pass filter. to change the response of the bass strings.
From its carefully buffered circuit design to its high-performance component selection, Warm Audio Centavo delivers every aspect of the unmistakably authentic Centar experience.

background
- Approximately 8,000 Centaur pedals were manufactured by Bill Finnegan for approximately 6 years from 1994 to 2000.
・The key to correctly reproducing Klon sound is not easy. Many current reprints simplify or modify the circuit design when recreating the circuit design of the original model. As a result, the original tone of the pedal is lost.
- When selecting parts, it is not enough to simply find parts with matching names and numbers. WARM's product team spent hours painstakingly comparing different versions of each component to arrive at the optimal recipe. And delivers the true Klon Centaur sound.

Technical specifications
・Special color specifications with limited quantity
- Faithfully reproduces the Klon Centaur circuit of the original model.
-Uses high-performance components including TL072 op amp, 1N34A germanium diode, carbon resistor, and charge pump voltage regulator
・Buffered bypass adopted
・Equipped with GAIN, TREBLE, and OUTPUT controls
・Equipped with a MOD switch on the rear to expand the bass range
・Equipped with phone input (instrument) and output (amplifier) ​​terminals
- Powered by 9V battery or standard 9V power adapter.
・Power consumption: 40mA
・Length: 127mm
・Width: 171mm
・Height: 57mm
・Weight: 907g

・Limited Vintage Silver
A faithful recreation of some of the first vintage originals to hit the market, the Centavo circuit is housed in a custom-cast limited edition silver enclosure and features carefully tapered oxblood tone knobs.

Uncompromising design and parts
・Various usage methods
Centavo has all the tricks of the original, including solo boosts, blending clean and gain, and pushing distorted amps.

・Control and mode switching
Like the original model, it features three simple controls on the front panel: GAIN, TREBLE, and OUTPUT. It also has a MOD switch on the back panel that allows you to change the low-end response and get a smooth sound from the bass strings.

・True legendary sound
To achieve the legendary overdrive tone, we use high-performance components such as the TL072 op amp and 1N34A germanium diode to deliver signature hard clipping and clean boost while maintaining signal integrity throughout the buffer circuit. Achieve sound.

Recommended usage

Lowering the gain and increasing the output will give you a clean boost, and increasing the gain will add a bit of bite to the channel. This is a very popular usage for the original model as well.


The original Klon model is known as the perfect pedal to put in front of a distortion channel, such as British tones (Marshall, etc.) or American tones (Boogie). Many players will crank up the gain here and generate overdrive from the pedal to drive the channel harder, unlike the clean boost setting above.

<“Transparent” Overdrive>
If you want to give your clean channel a "transparent" overdrive sound for rhythm or soloing, Centavo's GAIN gives you a lot of versatility. The definition of transparent is often debated on the internet, but at Warm Audio we believe it means that the character of the amp and guitar is maintained and the tone is not destroyed even when pedals are added.

Featured artists using original model Klon pedals
Jeff Beck
Paul McCartney
John Mayer
Joe Bonamassa
Josh Klinghoffer (RHCP, among others)
Matty Healy (The 1975)
Noel Gallagher
Stone Gossard
Joe Perry